Goddard Space Flight Center

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

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA Successfully Integrates Coronagraph for Roman Space Telescope

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully completed integration of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument onto Roman’s Instrument Carrier, a piece of infrastructure that will hold the mission’s instruments, which will be integrated onto the larger spacecraft at a later date.

Posted October 28, 2024

Heliophysics

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics Division

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

NASA Awards NOAA’s Solar Wind Plasma Sensors Contract

NASA has selected the University of New Hampshire in Durham to build Solar Wind Plasma Sensors for the Lagrange 1 Series project, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Next Program.

Posted October 24, 2024

NASA Directorates

Goddard Space Flight Center

Science & Research

Science Mission Directorate

NASA Funds Open-Source Software Underpinning Scientific Innovation

NASA has awarded $15.6 million in grant funding to 15 projects supporting the maintenance of open-source tools, frameworks, and libraries used by the NASA science community, for the benefit of all.

Posted October 24, 2024

People of Goddard

Goddard Space Flight Center

People of NASA

Meloë Kacenelenbogen Eyes the Future of Air Quality, Climate Research

A mentor of research scientist Meloë Kacenelenbogen once shared a sentiment from French author André Gide: “You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Kacenelenbogen pushes beyond her comfort zone to explore the unknown. Name: Meloë S.

Posted October 22, 2024

Astrophysics

Black Holes

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

Gravitational Waves

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna)

The Universe

NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory

NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves — ripples in space-time caused by merging black holes and other cosmic sources.

Posted October 22, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Galaxies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Science Mission Directorate

Spiral Galaxies

The Universe

Hubble Captures a New View of Galaxy M90

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the striking spiral galaxy Messier 90 (M90, also NGC 4569), located in the constellation Virgo. In 2019, Hubble released an image of M90 created with Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) data taken in 1994, soon after its installation. That WFPC2 image has a distinctive stair-step pattern […]

Posted October 18, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Black Holes

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Stars

The Universe

NASA’s Hubble Finds that a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar Eruptions

In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to erupt along its trajectory. The stars, called novae, are not caught inside the jet, but apparently in a dangerous neighborhood nearby. The […]

Posted September 26, 2024