Langley Research Center

A new custom virtual reality flight simulator built by NASA researchers will allow them to explore how passengers experience air taxi rides and collect data that will help designers create new aircraft with passenger comfort in mind.

Posted June 27, 2024

Langley Research Center

People of NASA

Langley Celebrates Pride Month: Derek Bramble

Derek Bramble has served in a variety of mission and program support roles over his 14-year career at NASA Langley. He currently serves as an HR Business Partner in LaRC’s Human Capital Office, where he works closely with a number of organizations across the Center providing them with strategic and operational HR support. Derek previously […]

Posted June 27, 2024

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Ames Research Center

Glenn Research Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Langley Research Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Parachute Sensor Testing Could Make EPIC Mars Landings

Landing rovers and helicopters on Mars is a challenge. It’s an even bigger challenge when you don’t have enough information about how the parachutes are enduring strain during the descent to the surface.

Posted June 27, 2024

Ames Research Center

Earth

Extreme Weather Events

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Johnson Space Center

Langley Research Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Natural Disasters

NASA Announces New System to Aid Disaster Response

In early May, widespread flooding and landslides occurred in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, leaving thousands of people without food, water, or electricity. In the following days, NASA teams provided data and imagery to help on-the-ground responders understand the disaster’s impacts and deploy aid.

Posted June 13, 2024

Langley Research Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA’s RASC-AL Competition Selects 2024 Winners

Out of 14 finalist teams that encompassed collegiate and university representation from across the globe, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University team with their concept, “Project Draupnir,” in the AI-Powered Self-Replicating Probe theme, took home top prize in NASA’s Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC

Posted June 13, 2024

Aeronautics

Langley Research Center

Winners Announced in Gateways to Blue Skies Aeronautics Competition

The California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, team, with their project titled “Aero-Quake Emergency Response Network,” took first place at the third annual Gateways to Blue Skies Competition.

Posted June 3, 2024

Earth

Airborne Science

Goddard Space Flight Center

Ice & Glaciers

Langley Research Center

Sea Ice

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Mission Flies Over Arctic to Study Sea Ice Melt Causes

It’s not just rising air and water temperatures influencing the decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice. Clouds, aerosols, even the bumps and dips on the ice itself can play a role. To explore how these factors interact and impact sea ice melting, NASA is flying two aircraft equipped with scientific instruments over the Arctic Ocean […]

Posted May 31, 2024

Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

Earth Science

Langley Research Center

NASA Releases New High-Quality, Near Real-Time Air Quality Data

NASA has made new data available that can provide air pollution observations at unprecedented resolutions – down to the scale of individual neighborhoods.

Posted May 30, 2024

Spinoffs

Langley Research Center

Technology Transfer

Technology Transfer & Spinoffs

Tech Today: Measuring the Buzz, Hum, and Rattle

NASA-supported wireless microphone array quickly, cheaply, and accurately maps noise from aircraft, animals, and more.

Posted May 29, 2024

Aeronautics

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

Ames Research Center

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Glenn Research Center

Integrated Aviation Systems Program

Langley Research Center

Low Boom Flight Demonstrator

Quesst (X-59)

Quesst: The Flights

Quesst: The Vehicle

Supersonic Flight

NASA’s X-59 Passes Milestone Toward Safe First Flight

NASA has taken the next step toward verifying the airworthiness for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft with the completion of a milestone review that will allow it to progress toward flight. A Flight Readiness Review board composed of independent experts from across NASA has completed a study of the X-59 project team’s approach to safety […]

Posted May 15, 2024