General

Europa Clipper
Europa
General
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jupiter Moons
Small Bodies of the Solar System
The Solar System
To explore the mysterious ice-encrusted moon Europa, the mission will need to endure bombardment by radiation and high-energy particles surrounding Jupiter.
Posted October 24, 2023
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Earth-like Exoplanets
Exoplanet Detection Methods
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanet Transits
Exoplanets
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Gas Giant Exoplanets
General
Gravitational Microlensing
Kepler / K2
Missions
Neptune-Like Exoplanets
Neutron Stars
Science & Research
Stars
Studying Exoplanets
Super-Earth Exoplanets
Terrestrial Exoplanets
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
The Kuiper Belt
The Milky Way
The Solar System
The Universe
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. The mission will monitor hundreds of millions of stars in search of tell-tale flickers that betray the presence of planets, distant stars, small icy objects that haunt the outskirts of our solar system, isolated […]
Posted October 24, 2023
General
Ames Research Center
CubeSats
Low-Earth Orbit Economy
Small Satellite Missions
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
SmallSats Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Tech Demo Missions
NASA’s Starling CubeSats are zipping through low Earth orbit in the agency’s latest test of robotic swarm technologies for space.  The four Starling spacecraft, launched in July 2023, are testing a group of small satellites ability to coordinate and cooperate independently without real-time updates from mission control.
Posted October 24, 2023
Aeronautics
General
In May 2023, Dr. Natasha Schatzman received the Vertical Flight Society Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Award for her vertical flight research at NASA Ames Research Center.  This annual award is given to a VFS member who is thirty-five years old or younger for outstanding contributions to vertical flight technology.  The award announcement notes that Dr.
Posted October 23, 2023
General
Artemis
Artemis 2
Humans in Space
Four astronauts are busy training for Artemis II, the first mission to carry humans on NASA’s powerful SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft, testing systems to support life in deep space on future Moon missions and expanding the space frontier beyond Earth orbit. In August, the crew – NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor […]
Posted October 19, 2023
General
Ames Research Center
Earth's Moon
VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover)
A team of engineers from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California, inspect TRIDENT – short for The Regolith Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain – shortly after its arrival at the integration and test facility. In the coming months, the team will integrate the drill into NASA’s first robotic […]
Posted October 18, 2023
Stennis Space Center
General
Space Launch System (SLS)
NASA conducted the first hot fire of a new RS-25 test series Oct. 17, beginning the final round of certification testing ahead of production of an updated set of the engines for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The engines will help power future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. Operators fired the RS-25 […]
Posted October 18, 2023
General
Ames Research Center
A new campus, called Berkeley Space Center, aims to offer lab, office, and educational spaces along with student and faculty housing, a conference center, and retail space on 36 acres within the NASA Research Park at the agency’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
Posted October 16, 2023
AeroSpace Frontiers
General
Glenn Research Center
Mark Hyatt Mark David KanKam
Posted October 16, 2023
Aeronautics
General
In June 2023, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) awarded the 2023 AIAA Wright Brothers Lectureship in Aeronautics to Larry Young, a researcher in the Aeromechanics Office at NASA Ames Research Center.  As part of this award, Mr.
Posted October 13, 2023
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