Ames Research Center

Ames Research Center
CubeSats
ISS Research
Science Instruments
Small Satellite Missions
Technology for Living in Space
Editor’s Note: This article was updated Nov. 21, 2025 shortly after BioSentinel’s mission marked three years of operation in deep space. Astronauts live in a pretty extreme environment aboard the International Space Station.
Posted November 21, 2025
Technology Transfer & Spinoffs
Ames Research Center
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Spinoffs
Technology Transfer
Air taxis and drones navigate different flight zones with NASA-inspired system
Posted November 17, 2025
Ames Research Center
ISS Research
Robotics
NASA is continuing the Astrobee mission through a collaboration with Arkisys, Inc., of Los Alamitos, California, who was awarded a reimbursable Space Act Agreement to sustain and maintain the robotic platform aboard the International Space Station.
Posted September 24, 2025
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)
Ames Research Center
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Johnson Space Center
Science Mission Directorate
As part of the agency’s Artemis campaign, NASA has awarded Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, a CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) task order with an option to deliver a rover to the Moon’s South Pole region. NASA’s VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) will search for volatile resources, such as ice, on the lunar surface […]
Posted September 19, 2025
Space Launch System (SLS)
Ames Research Center
Artemis
Artemis 2
Marshall Space Flight Center
By Jill Dunbar Of the many roads leading to successful Artemis missions, one is paved with high-tech computing chips called superchips.
Posted September 18, 2025
Aeronautics
Advanced Air Mobility
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Air Traffic Management - Exploration
Air Traffic Solutions
Ames Research Center
Drones & You
NASA and its partners recently tested a tool for remotely piloted operations that could enable operators to transport people and goods more efficiently within urban areas.   The team’s goal is to ensure that when these remotely piloted aircraft – including electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) – take to the skies, air traffic cont
Posted September 16, 2025
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Advanced Air Vehicles Program
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Ames Research Center
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
Low Boom Flight Demonstrator
Quesst (X-59)
Supersonic Flight
As NASA’s one-of-a-kind X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft approaches first flight, its team is mapping every step from taxi and takeoff to cruising and landing – and their decision-making is guided by safety. First flight will be a lower-altitude loop at about 240 mph to check system integration, kicking off a phase of flight testing […]
Posted September 12, 2025
Ames Research Center
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research
General
Through an ongoing collaboration, NASA and the Department of War are working to advance the future of modern drones to support long distance cargo transportation that could increase efficiency, reduce human workload, and enhance safety.
Posted September 12, 2025
Ames Research Center
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA has selected seven companies to assist the agency with architectural and engineering services at multiple agency centers and facilities. The Western Regional Architect-Engineer Services is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract has a total estimated value not to exceed $75 million.
Posted July 15, 2025
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