September 2024

ISS Research
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
Johnson Space Center
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is returning home after a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. While on orbit, Dyson conducted an array of experiments and technology demonstrations that contribute to advancements for humanity on Earth and the agency’s trajectory to the Moon and Mars.  Here is a look at some of the science […]
Posted September 18, 2024
Goddard Technology
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Goddard Space Flight Center
Technology
Here on Earth, it might not matter if your wristwatch runs a few seconds slow. But crucial spacecraft functions need accuracy down to one billionth of a second or less. Navigating with GPS, for example, relies on precise timing signals from satellites to pinpoint locations.
Posted September 18, 2024
Technology Transfer & Spinoffs
Spinoffs
Technology Transfer
Moon dust, or regolith, isn’t like the particles on Earth that collect on bookshelves or tabletops – it’s abrasive and it clings to everything. Throughout NASA’s Apollo missions to the Moon, regolith posed a challenge to astronauts and valuable space hardware.
Posted September 17, 2024
Near Space Network
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Goddard Space Flight Center
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA has awarded a contract to Intuitive Machines, LLC of Houston, to support the agency’s lunar relay systems as part of the Near Space Network, operated by the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Posted September 17, 2024
Goddard Space Flight Center
GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
GOES-R
Kennedy Space Center
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to develop a lightning mapping instrument as part of NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program. This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at approximately $297.1 million.
Posted September 17, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, invites media to its annual Small Business Industry and Advocate Awards ceremony on Thursday, Sept. 19. The awards recognize small businesses and small business champions from government and industry for their outstanding achievements in fiscal year 2024.
Posted September 17, 2024
General
Earth Science
Oceans
Internet of Animals The Internet of Animals project combines animal tracking tags with remote sensing, to better understand habitat use and movement patterns.
Posted September 17, 2024
Earth Science
Introduction The NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 mission (ICESat-2), launched September 15, 2018, continues the first ICESat mission, delivering invaluable global altimetry data. Notwithstanding its icy acronym, ICESat-2 can do more than measure ice – in fact, the expanded acronym hints at these wider applications.
Posted September 17, 2024
Audio
Podcasts
Read this news release in English here. Para celebrar el Mes de la Herencia Hispana, la NASA publica nuevos contenidos para Universo curioso de la NASA, el primer pódcast en español de la agencia, que inicia ahora su segunda temporada. La temporada de cinco semanas comienza el martes, con nuevos episodios disponibles semanalmente. Escucha el […]
Posted September 17, 2024
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