Langley Research Center

Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing
Langley Research Center
NASA’s Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) project brought together its full team of Advanced Composites Consortium partners for a 2026 spring review at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.   The meeting took place May 5-7, bringing together about 150 people from the consortium, a 22-member public-private partnership.  
Posted June 4, 2026
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Advanced Air Vehicles Program
Aeronautics
Ames Research Center
Commercial Supersonic Technology
Glenn Research Center
Integrated Aviation Systems Program
Langley Research Center
Low Boom Flight Demonstrator
Quesst (X-59)
Quesst: The Flights
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is preparing for some of its most significant flights yet. The X-plane is about to begin a new block of test flights that will include its first time flying faster than the speed of sound and other mission-critical objectives. “What comes next is the first time this one-of-a-kind aircraft […]
Posted May 29, 2026
Wildland Fire Management
Ames Earth Science Division
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Earth Science Technology Office
Langley Research Center
Wildfires
With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA’s FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install on fire bulldozers that will alert firefighters when heat from a nearby fire reaches a dangerous level. The sensors also provide researchers with important data on what happens beneath the canopy during a fire.
Posted May 28, 2026
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI)
CoECI News
Langley Research Center
Prizes, Challenges, & Crowdsourcing News
Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
University Innovation
A South Dakota State University team took first place at NASA’s fifth annual Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, which challenged student teams to address a critical element of U.S. aviation: aircraft maintenance.
Posted May 20, 2026
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Game Changing Development Program
High-Tech Computing
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Langley Research Center
Technology
Technology for Space Travel
For decades, NASA has advanced on-board spacecraft computer processors that coordinate and execute the functions needed to support mission success. Space computing originated in the 1960s with the Apollo Guidance Computers, which were pivotal for guidance, navigation, and control computations during NASA’s first Moon missions.
Posted May 8, 2026
General
Artemis
Game Changing Development Program
Glenn Research Center
Langley Research Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Technology
Technology for Living in Space
Technology Research
With a small blue crane, four researchers hoist a cylindrical fuel cell, which looks like a stack of flattened silver and gold soda cans bundled together, into the air and lower it into a rectangular cart on wheels. A tangle of tubes and wires spiral away from the system, where nearly 270 sensors and 1,000 […]
Posted May 8, 2026
Technology
Ames Research Center
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Flight Opportunities Program
Game Changing Development Program
Langley Research Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
To support long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars, NASA and industry are developing technologies that can extract resources such as hydrogen and helium-3 from lunar soil, known as regolith.
Posted May 4, 2026
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Johnson Space Center
Langley Research Center
Also known as Endurance, MK1 is an uncrewed cargo lander funded by Blue Origin as a commercial demonstration mission to advance Human Landing System capabilities in support of NASA’s Artemis program. The tests in Chamber A represent a public-private partnership model, with Blue Origin conducting work through a reimbursable Space Act Agreement.
Posted May 4, 2026
Langley Research Center
Airborne Science
Earth
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Earth's Atmosphere
General
Science Mission Directorate
NASA’s Boeing 777 has returned to the agency’s fleet after undergoing heavy structural modifications as it transforms from a giant passenger plane into the agency’s next-generation airborne science laboratory.
Posted April 22, 2026
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