Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Selects Marshall Logistics Support Services II Contractor

NASA has awarded the MSFC Logistics Support Services II (MLSS II) contract to Akima Global Logistics, LLC to provide logistics support services at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The performance-based indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a maximum potential value of $96.3 million.

Posted July 25, 2024

Black Holes

Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes

Gamma Rays

Gamma-Ray Bursts

Goddard Space Flight Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Stellar-mass Black Holes

The Universe

NASA’s Fermi Finds New Feature in Brightest Gamma-Ray Burst Yet Seen

In October 2022, astronomers were stunned by what was quickly dubbed the BOAT — the brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst (GRB). Now an international science team reports that data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope reveals a feature never seen before.

Posted July 25, 2024

Low Earth Orbit Economy

Commercial Space

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Supports Burst Test for Orbital Reef Commercial Space Station

An element of a NASA-funded commercial space station, Orbital Reef, under development by Blue Origin and Sierra Space, recently completed a full-scale ultimate burst pressure test as part of the agency’s efforts for new destinations in low Earth orbit. This milestone is part of a NASA Space Act Agreement awarded to Blue Origin in 2021. […]

Posted July 25, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

The Marshall Star for July 24, 2024

25 Years On, Chandra Highlights Legacy of NASA Engineering Ingenuity By Rick Smith “The art of aerospace engineering is a matter of seeing around corners,” said NASA thermal analyst Jodi Turk. In the case of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, marking its 25th anniversary in space this year, some of those corners proved to be as far […]

Posted July 24, 2024

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

General

Marshall Space Flight Center

25 Years On, Chandra Highlights Legacy of NASA Engineering Ingenuity

By Rick Smith “The art of aerospace engineering is a matter of seeing around corners,” said NASA thermal analyst Jodi Turk. In the case of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, marking its 25th anniversary in space this year, some of those corners proved to be as far as 80,000 miles away and a quarter-century in the […]

Posted July 23, 2024

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Astrophysics

Galaxies

Marshall Space Flight Center

Nebulae

25 Images to Celebrate NASA’s Chandra 25th Anniversary

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its launch, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is releasing 25 never-before-seen views of a wide range of cosmic objects. These images, which all include data from Chandra, demonstrate how X-ray astronomy explores all corners of the universe.

Posted July 22, 2024

Artemis

I Am Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

Michoud Assembly Facility

People of Marshall

People of NASA

Space Launch System (SLS)

I am Artemis: John Campbell

How do you move NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s massive 212-foot-long core stage across the country? You do it with a 300-foot-long barge. However, NASA’s Pegasus barge isn’t just any barge. It’s a vessel with a history, and John Campbell, a logistics engineer for the agency based at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in […]

Posted July 19, 2024

Artemis

Artemis 2

Humans in Space

Marshall Space Flight Center

Michoud Assembly Facility

Space Launch System (SLS)

From One Crew to Another: Artemis II Astronauts Meet NASA Barge Crew

Members of the Artemis II crew met with the crew of NASA’s Pegasus barge prior to their departure to deliver the core stage of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to the Space Coast. NASA astronaut and pilot of the Artemis II mission Victor Glover met the crew July 15. NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, commander, […]

Posted July 19, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

Sounding Rockets

Sounding Rockets Program

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Sounding Rocket Launches, Studies Heating of Sun’s Active Regions

By Wayne Smith Investigators at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will use observations from a recently-launched sounding rocket mission to provide a clearer image of how and why the Sun’s corona grows so much hotter than the visible surface of Earth’s parent star. The MaGIXS-2 mission – short for the second flight […]

Posted July 18, 2024

Marshall Space Flight Center

The Marshall Star for July 17, 2024

NASA Ships Moon Rocket Stage Ahead of First Crewed Artemis Flight NASA rolled out the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s core stage for the Artemis II test flight from its Michoud Assembly Facility on Tuesday for shipment to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center. The rollout is key progress on the path to NASA’s first crewed mission to […]

Posted July 17, 2024