Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Marshall Invites Media to Local Day of Remembrance Event

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, invites media to attend its observance of the agency’s Day of Remembrance at 9:30 a.m. CST Thursday, Jan. 23, in the lobby of Building 4221. Day of Remembrance honors the members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery. […]

Posted January 21, 2025

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Exoplanet Atmosphere

Exoplanet Science

Exoplanets

General

Marshall Space Flight Center

Exoplanets Need to Be Prepared for Extreme Space Weather, Chandra Finds

Planets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) XMM-Newton that examined the effects of X-rays on potential planets around the most common type of stars.

Posted January 16, 2025

Missions

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Sets Coverage for Firefly First Commercial Robotic Moon Launch

Editor’s Note: This advisory was updated Jan. 13, 2025, to reflect the correct affiliation for Maria Banks, CLPS project scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Posted January 10, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Instrument on Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander to Study Lunar Interior

LMS instrument aboard the Blue Ghost Lander heading to Mare Crisium in mid-January As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex lunar deliveries and missions to ultimately build a sustained human presence at the Moon for decades to come.

Posted January 10, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA to Test Solution for Radiation-Tolerant Computing in Space

Onboard computers are critical to space exploration, aiding nearly every spacecraft function from propulsion and navigation systems to life support technology, science data retrieval and analysis, communications, and reentry. But computers in space are susceptible to ionizing solar and cosmic radiation.

Posted January 8, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Lander to Test Vacuum Cleaner on Moon for Sample Collection

Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples cannot be underestimated.

Posted January 8, 2025

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Earth's Magnetic Field

Earth's Moon

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Heliophysics Division

Magnetosphere

Marshall Space Flight Center

Science & Research

The Sun

NASA’s LEXI Will Provide X-Ray Vision of Earth’s Magnetosphere

A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the Moon as part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of the magnetic field that shields Earth from solar radiation. The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager, or LEXI, instrument is one of 10 payloads aboard the next lunar delivery through NASA’s CLPS (Commercial […]

Posted January 3, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Anticipates Lunar Findings From Next-Generation Retroreflector

Apollo astronauts set up mirror arrays, or “retroreflectors,” on the Moon to accurately reflect laser light beamed at them from Earth with minimal scattering or diffusion. Retroreflectors are mirrors that reflect the incoming light back in the same incoming direction.

Posted January 2, 2025

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

Artemis

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Science Payload to Study Sticky Lunar Dust Challenge

The Moon may look like barren rock, but it’s actually covered in a layer of gravel, pebbles, and dust collectively known as “lunar regolith.” During the Apollo Moon missions, astronauts learned firsthand that the fine, powdery dust – electromagnetically charged due to constant bombardment by solar and cosmic particles – is extremely abrasive and cl

Posted December 20, 2024

Space Launch System (SLS)

Artemis

Artemis 2

Humans in Space

Kennedy Space Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Michoud Assembly Facility

Artemis II Core Stage Vertical Integration Begins at NASA Kennedy

NASA has taken a big step forward in how engineers will assemble and stack future SLS (Space Launch System) rockets for Artemis Moon missions inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The VAB’s High Bay 2 has been outfitted with new tooling to facilitate the vertical integration of […]

Posted December 19, 2024