July 2026

CubeSats
Science Instruments
Technology Highlights
A team of NASA-sponsored scientists and engineers has developed a novel approach to observing high-energy particles in the near-Earth space environment, incorporating miniaturized sensors into a compact, multi-view particle detection instrument unlike any before it.
Posted July 21, 2026
Earth Observatory
Landsat 9
Topography
Differences in the underlying bedrock and how rivers distribute sediment make the coastlines west of Portland look unlike those northeast of the city.
Posted July 21, 2026
Humans in Space
Commercial Crew
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Johnson Space Center
NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation mission to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Monday, Aug. 3, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Mission leadership will provide an overview of NASA’s SpaceX Crew‑13 mission at 12 p.m. EDT. Next, crew members will discuss their […]
Posted July 20, 2026
Research and Technology Mission Directorate
Advanced Air Vehicles Program
Electrified Aircraft Propulsion
Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools
An aircraft powered by a megawatt-class hybrid-electric engine developed in collaboration with NASA and built by GE Aerospace, demonstrated flight of an innovation that can inform new generations of fuel-saving aircraft power systems. Mounted to a Saab 340B aircraft, the engine flew at Farnborough International Air Show in the United Kingdom.
Posted July 20, 2026
Air Quality
Clouds
Earth
Ice & Glaciers
Landslides
Wildfires
The first of six new airborne campaigns will hit the skies this summer.
Posted July 20, 2026
General
Langley Research Center
Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking 1 and 2 landers made the first successful landings on Mars, opening a new era in planetary exploration. Behind that achievement was a team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, whose steady leadership and technical expertise helped turn an ambitious idea into a mission that reshaped how we […]
Posted July 20, 2026
“Touchdown, we have touchdown!” At 5:12 a.m. PDT, July 20, 1976, mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers as they learned that the Viking 1 lander had survived its descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. Forty minutes later, the lander’s first image began to appear on their monitors, slowly forming line by […]
Posted July 20, 2026
Earth Observatory
Topography
The hills and basins of Seattle, Washington, have been sculpted by glaciers and modified by humans.
Posted July 20, 2026
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Advanced Air Vehicles Program
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Langley Research Center
Subsonic Flight Demonstrator
Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools
NASA researchers recently put a new wing design, appearing long and thin with a lightweight structural design, through a series of grueling tests to find its structural limits. What they found left them encouraged about the wing’s potential, even when they pushed it past its intended limits.
Posted July 18, 2026
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