April 2024

Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Glenn Research Center
Green Aviation Tech
Located inside a high-tech NASA laboratory in Cleveland is something you could almost miss at first glance: a small-scale, fully operational jet engine to test new technology that could make aviation more sustainable.  The engine’s smaller size and modestly equipped test stand means researchers and engineers can try out newly designed engine compon
Posted April 29, 2024
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Missions
Editor’s note: This advisory was updated April 28, 2024 to correct the launch location. NASA and its international partners are set to receive scientific research samples and hardware as a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft departs the International Space Station on Sunday, April 28 weather permitting.
Posted April 26, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has prepared a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) that analyzes the environmental impacts of implementing continuing and future mission support activities at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama.
Posted April 26, 2024
SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)
Earth
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Water on Earth
The novel approach to estimating river water storage and discharge also identifies regions marked by ‘fingerprints’ of intense water use. A study led by NASA researchers provides new estimates of how much water courses through Earth’s rivers, the rates at which it’s flowing into the ocean, and how much both of those figures have fluctuated […]
Posted April 26, 2024
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Hubble Space Telescope
Spiral Galaxies
The magnificent central bar of NGC 2217 (also known as AM 0619-271) shines bright in the constellation of Canis Major (The Greater Dog), in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Roughly 65 million light-years from Earth, this barred spiral galaxy is a similar size to our Milky Way at 100,000 light-years across.
Posted April 26, 2024
NASA Engineering and Safety Center
Download PDF: Identification of Noise Sources During Launch Using Phased Array Microphone Systems  Every part of a launch vehicle, launch pad, and ground operation equipment is subjected to the high acoustic load generated during lift-off [1].
Posted April 26, 2024
Astrobiology
Internships
At the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, interns from Cal State LA are learning key skills studying the origins of life. What does wastewater management in Los Angeles have to do with the search for life on Mars? Eduardo Martinez certainly didn’t make the connection when he was pursuing a master’s in civil engineering. Not at […]
Posted April 26, 2024
NASA Engineering and Safety Center
Download PDF: Trajectory Reverse Engineering A strategy for transferring spacecraft trajectories between flight mechanics tools, called Trajectory Reverse Engineering (TRE), has been developed[1].
Posted April 26, 2024
ISS Research
Commercial Crew
Commercial Resupply
Commercial Space
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
Johnson Space Center
NASA partners with commercial companies to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation of cargo and crew members to and from the International Space Station.
Posted April 26, 2024
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Earth
Earth Science Division
Earth Science Technology Office
Goddard Space Flight Center
Goddard Technology
Science Mission Directorate
Technology
It took the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission just 13 minutes to reach low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in February 2024. It took a network of scientists at NASA and research institutions around the world more than 20 years to carefully craft and test the novel instruments that allow PACE […]
Posted April 26, 2024
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