Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Releases Hubble Image Taken in New Pointing Mode

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken its first new images since changing to an alternate operating mode that uses one gyro. The spacecraft returned to science operations June 14 after being offline for several weeks due to an issue with one of its gyroscopes (gyros), which help control and orient the telescope. This new image […]

Posted June 19, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

Kennedy Space Center

NASA Centers & Facilities

NASA Headquarters

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Awards Logistic Services, Management Contract

NASA has awarded the Goddard Logistics Services Contract to TRAX International Corporation of Las Vegas to provide logistics services and management for NASA missions. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes a base period and up to five options with a potential contract value of approximately $265 million if all options are exercised.

Posted June 18, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer)

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Etched into Collier Trophy, Aerospace History

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has been immortalized at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington as the latest awardee of the Robert J. Collier Trophy. Bestowed annually by the National Aeronautic Association, the trophy recognizes groundbreaking aerospace achievements.

Posted June 18, 2024

Goddard Space Flight Center

Learning Resources

People of Goddard

NASA Interns Blast Off for Their First Week at Goddard

Several hundred new faces walked through the gates of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for the first time on June 3. Who is this small army of motivated space-enthusiasts? It’s Goddard’s 2024 summer intern cohort.

Posted June 17, 2024

Astrophysics

Crab Nebula

Goddard Space Flight Center

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Nebulae

Neutron Stars

Pulsars

Science & Research

Stars

Supernovae

Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula With NASA’s Webb

New data revises our view of this unusual supernova explosion. A team of scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to parse the composition of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus.

Posted June 17, 2024

Earth

Airborne Science

Goddard Space Flight Center

Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA-Led Mission to Map Air Pollution Over Both U.S. Coasts

This summer between June 17 and July 2, NASA will fly aircraft over Baltimore, Philadelphia, parts of Virginia, and California to collect data on air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions. The campaign supports the NASA Student Airborne Research Program for undergraduate interns. The East Coast flights will take place from June 17-26.

Posted June 14, 2024

Wallops Flight Facility

For Colleges & Universities

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics Division

Sounding Rockets

Sounding Rockets Program

STEM Engagement at NASA

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility to Launch Student Experiments

More than 50 student and faculty teams are sending experiments into space as part of NASA’s RockOn and RockSat-C student flight programs. The annual student mission, “RockOn,” is scheduled to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, on a Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket Thursday, June 20, with a launch window that opens at 5:30 a.m. EDT. An […]

Posted June 14, 2024

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

NASA’s Hubble Restarts Science in New Pointing Mode

NASA successfully transitioned operations for the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope to an alternate operating mode that uses one gyro, returning the spacecraft to daily science operations Friday. The telescope and its instruments are stable and functioning normally.

Posted June 14, 2024

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Earth's Moon

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

Planetary Science

The Solar System

NASA’s LRO Spots China’s Chang’e 6 Spacecraft on Lunar Far Side

NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) imaged China’s Chang’e 6 sample return spacecraft on the far side of the Moon on June 7. Chang’e 6 landed on June 1, and when LRO passed over the landing site almost a week later, it acquired an image showing the lander on the rim of an eroded, 55-yard-diameter (about […]

Posted June 14, 2024

Astrophysics

Astrophysics Division

Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Space Telescope

Missions

Stars

The Universe

Hubble Observes a Cosmic Fossil

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 2005. It’s not an unusual globular cluster in and of itself, but it is a peculiarity when compared to its surroundings. NGC 2005 is located about 750 light-years from the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which is the Milky Way’s largest satellite […]

Posted June 14, 2024