Goddard Space Flight Center

Matthew Kowalewski describes himself as “curious about too many things,” but that curiosity comes in handy when engineering instrumentation scheduled to soar through the atmosphere of a moon of Saturn.

Posted November 12, 2024

Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE)

Earth

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Hurricanes & Typhoons

The Sun

Hurricane Helene’s Gravity Waves Revealed by NASA’s AWE

On Sept. 26, 2024, Hurricane Helene slammed into the Gulf Coast of Florida, inducing storm surges and widespread impacts on communities in its path. At the same time, NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment, or AWE, recorded enormous swells in the atmosphere that the hurricane produced roughly 55 miles above the ground.

Posted November 7, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Parker Solar Probe (PSP)

Solar Wind

The Sun

Venus

Final Venus Flyby for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Queues Closest Sun Pass

On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist maneuver, passing within 233 miles (376 km) of Venus’ surface. The flyby will adjust Parker’s trajectory into its final orbital configuration, bringing the spacecraft to within an unprecedented 3.86 million miles of the solar surface on Dec.

Posted November 4, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Science & Research

Solar Wind

The Sun

Wind Mission

30 Years On, NASA’s Wind Is a Windfall for Studying our Neighborhood in Space

Picture it: 1994. The first World Wide Web conference took place in Geneva, the first Chunnel train traveled under the English Channel, and just three years after the end of the Cold War, the first Russian instrument on a U.S. spacecraft launched into deep space from Cape Canaveral. The mission to study the solar wind, […]

Posted November 1, 2024

Astrophysics

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Stars

NASA’s Hubble, Webb Probe Surprisingly Smooth Disk Around Vega

In the 1997 movie “Contact,” adapted from Carl Sagan’s 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by actor Jodi Foster) takes a space-alien-built wormhole ride to the star Vega. She emerges inside a snowstorm of debris encircling the star — but no obvious planets are visible. It looks like the filmmakers got it […]

Posted November 1, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

Contract Specialist Miranda Meyer

“Discipline is one of the things that they instill within you [in the military.] All the way starting in boot camp, [the goal] is doing the right thing when no one is looking. Integrity. “Whenever you’re in boot camp, they always say, ‘it’s too easy.’ It’s just too easy to follow the rules, read the […]

Posted November 1, 2024

Astrophysics

Galaxies

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Science & Research

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

‘Blood-Soaked’ Eyes: NASA’s Webb, Hubble Examine Galaxy Pair

Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly “stare” of their searing eye-like cores shines out into the supreme cosmic darkness. It’s good fortune that looks can be deceiving. These galaxies have only grazed one another to date, with the smaller […]

Posted October 31, 2024

Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX)

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

International Space Station (ISS)

Science Mission Directorate

Solar Wind

Space Weather

The Sun

NASA to Launch Innovative Solar Coronagraph to Space Station

NASA’s Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is ready to launch to the International Space Station to reveal new details about the solar wind including its origin and its evolution. Launching in November 2024 aboard SpaceX’s 31st commercial resupply services mission, CODEX will be robotically installed on the exterior of the space station.

Posted October 30, 2024

General

Ames Research Center

Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)

Europa Clipper

Game Changing Development Program

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Langley Research Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Science & Research

Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business

Small Spacecraft Technology Program

Space Communications & Navigation Program

Space Operations Mission Directorate

Space Technology Mission Directorate

Technology

Technology Demonstration

Technology Demonstration Missions Program

NASA Technologies Named Among TIME Inventions of 2024

As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for space travel, enable communications with spacecraft at record-breaking distances, and determine the habitability of a moon of Jupiter, were named Wednesday among TIME’s Inventions of 2024.

Posted October 30, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)

People of Goddard

People of NASA

Carissa Arillo: Testing Spacecraft, Penning the Owner’s Manuals

Flight operations engineer Carissa Arillo helped ensure one of the instruments on NASA’s PACE mission made it successfully through its prelaunch testing. She and her group also documented the work rigorously, to ensure the flight team had a comprehensive manual to keep this Earth-observing satellite in good health for the duration of its mission.

Posted October 29, 2024