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Glenn History
Glenn Research Center
NASA History
On January 23, 1941, local authorities, military representatives, and agency officials assembled in Cleveland to initiate construction of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) new research laboratory.
Posted January 23, 2024
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
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NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) team has been awarded a top prize in high-energy astronomy.
Posted January 23, 2024
AeroSpace Frontiers
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Glenn Research Center
International Space Station (ISS)
Reliable space communication and navigation systems are critical to every NASA mission. From the Voyager mission exploring beyond our solar system to astronauts aboard the International Space Station, space communications provide the crucial connection to our home planet.
Posted January 18, 2024
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
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Overview As NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) constellation approaches retirement, partnerships with commercial industry will play a critical role in the development of future space communications and navigation architecture.
Posted January 18, 2024
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Ames Research Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Greater than the sum of its parts: NASA tests the capability of a system that includes simple robots, structural building blocks, and smart algorithms to build functional, high-performance large-scale structures, ultimately enabling autonomous deep-space infrastructure.
Posted January 17, 2024
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer)
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Marshall Space Flight Center
The powerful gravity fields of black holes can devour whole planets’ worth of matter – often so violently that they expel streams of particles traveling near the speed of light in  formations known as jets.
Posted January 16, 2024
Nicole Aunapu Mann
Ames Research Center
Astronauts
Becoming an Astronaut
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Learning Resources
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren talk with students and families at Youth Alliance, a community organization in Hollister, California, on Jan.
Posted January 11, 2024
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Back to ESI Home Advancing Radiation-Hardened Photon Counting Sensor Technologies Advancements in Predicting Plume-Surface Interaction Environments During Propulsive Landings Advancing the Performance of Refrigeration Systems Based on the Elastocaloric Effect
Posted January 10, 2024
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Patrick Shamberger Texas A&M University Elastocaloric materials heat up or cool down when stress is applied to them or removed.
Posted January 10, 2024
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Nenad Miljkovic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Traditional elastocaloric refrigeration systems are based on uniaxial compression of the elastocaloric material which makes them highly constrained by actuator requirements, the physics of column buckling, and limited surface area for heat transfer.
Posted January 10, 2024
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