NASA’s Tiny BurstCube Mission Launches to Study Cosmic Blasts | Simple Site

NASA’s BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions, is on its way to the International Space Station. The spacecraft travels aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission, which lifted off at 4:55 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 21, from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. […]

Category: Astrophysics, BurstCube, CubeSats, Gamma Rays, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Goddard Space Flight Center, Gravitational Waves, International Space Station (ISS), Neutron Stars, Sensing the Universe & Multimessenger Astronomy

Posted on March 21, 2024

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Wildland Fire Management

5

Cryogenic Fluid Management (CFM)

6

1

NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor Space Telescope)

10

Tracy Caldwell Dyson

8

xEVA & Human Surface Mobility

10

DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging)

3

48

Robert L. Satcher Jr.

1

Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS)

1

8

Exosphere

2

Glenn Research Center

235

Space Technology Research Grants

17

13

Sustainable Aviation

3

Astronauts

108

Moons

4

Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer (OCHMO)

5

Technology Demonstration Missions Program

14

Virtual Guest Program

11

Commercial Resupply

49

Earth Visualization & Mapping

6

Opportunities For Students to Get Involved

40

Pulsars

13

Hubble Space Telescope

239

23

1

Heliophysics Division

65

Small Satellite Missions

27

STS-51A

1

APOD

12

Budget & Annual Reports

6

Mars Sample Return (MSR)

13

Galaxy clusters

17

Horsehead Nebula

1

6

STS-93

1

1

1

Matthew Dominick

5

4

73

Chandra X-Ray Observatory

79

Digital Transformation (DT)

7

Planetary Nebulae

12

15

Jasmin Moghbeli

11

Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium

7

Explore

6

GOLD (Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk)

3

Star-forming Nebulae

15

Air Mobility Pathfinders project

6

Auroras

14

NASA Engineering and Safety Center

48

TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)

22

8

2

El Niño - Southern Oscillation

1

Outer Planets & Ocean Worlds Program

1

Raja Chari

3

Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core

3

Landsat 1

1

Environmental Management Division (EMD)

8

Pathfinding for Airspace with Autonomous Vehicles

1

Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES)

4

In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU)

2

Leadership

12

Everyday Extraordinary Stories

1

Gemini III

1

Space Communications & Navigation Program

45

AcrimSat (Active Cavity Irradiance Monitor Satellite)

1

Suomi NPP (Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership)

6

Artemis 5

7

Michoud Assembly Facility

35

Ocean Circulation

1

Venus

12

Climate Science

7

Early Career Faculty (ECF)

10

Private Astronaut Missions

5

Scientific Balloons

17

Johnson Space Center

406

Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS)

2

Flight Innovation

43

Gravitational Lensing

7

Seyfert Galaxies

4

STS-1

1

Ames Research Center

226

Biological & Physical Sciences

44

Mars 2020

35

NASA+

5

360

Wildlife

2

Cryosphere

8

NEOWISE

8

Transformational Tools Technologies

12

XMM-Newton (X-ray Multi-Mirror Newton)

3

Dawn

3

Physical Sciences

8

Robotics

18

Io

5

Low Boom Flight Demonstrator

27

1

Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI)

2

32

180

Sustainable Flight Demonstrator

6

Astronomy

3

MOSAICS

1

Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO)

4

Technology for Living in Space

6

Visible / Optical Light

1

Commercial Space

98

Earth's Atmosphere

33

Opportunities For U.S. Citizens to Get Involved

5

Quasars

6

Human Dimensions

19

Katherine Johnson IV and V Facility

3

5

Heliophysics Research Program

3

Small Spacecraft Technology Program

20

STS-51C

1

Apollo

14

BurstCube

4

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

26

1

2

STS-96

1

Apophis

2

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)

18

Nicole Aunapu Mann

3

Underway Recovery Test 11

1

1

Discovery Program

2

Planetary Science

97

SBIR

1

Jason-CS (Continuity of Service) / Sentinel-6

5

Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative

10

Extreme Temperatures

5

GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment)

6

Stars

155

8

B200

3

NASA Headquarters

135

4

36

Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX)

3

Electrified Aircraft Propulsion

5

Outside the Classroom

10

Ranger 7

2

Hypersonic Technology

6

Landsat 5

2

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