NASA Centers & Facilities

Wallops Flight Facility
Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Technology
NASA has selected ARES Technical Services Corporation of McLean, Virginia, to provide launch range operations support at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The Wallops Range Contract has a total potential value of $339.8 million with a one-year base period expected to begin Tuesday, Feb.
Posted January 6, 2026
General
Advanced Air Transport Technology
Advanced Air Vehicles Program
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Aerosciences Evaluation Test Capabilities
Glenn Research Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Transformational Tools Technologies
Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program
When flying in certain weather conditions, tiny freezing water droplets floating in the air can pose a risk to aircraft. If not taken into consideration, these water droplets can accumulate on an aircraft as ice and pose a safety risk.  But NASA software tools such as Glenn Icing Computational Environment (GlennICE) are working to keep […]
Posted December 4, 2025
NASA Centers & Facilities
Glenn Research Center
Kennedy Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
Stennis Space Center
NASA has selected Plug Power, Inc., of Slingerlands, New York, and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., of Allentown, Pennsylvania, to supply up to approximately 36,952,000 pounds of liquid hydrogen for use at facilities across the agency.
Posted November 21, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe)
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Summary Space is a dangerous place — one that NASA continues to explore for the benefit of all. It’s filled with radiation and high-energy particles that can damage DNA and circuit boards alike. Yet life endures in our solar system in part because of the heliosphere, a giant bubble created by the Sun that extends […]
Posted September 17, 2025
Asteroids
Goddard Space Flight Center
Lucy
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
Trojan Asteroids
The IAU (International Astronomical Union), a global naming authority for celestial objects, has approved official names for features on Donaldjohanson, an asteroid NASA’s Lucy spacecraft visited on April 20.
Posted September 16, 2025
Marshall Space Flight Center
Kennedy Space Center
Michoud Assembly Facility
NASA Centers & Facilities
Stennis Space Center
NASA has selected Bastion Technologies Inc. of Houston to provide safety and mission assurance services for the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Safety and Mission Assurance II (SMAS II) award is a performance-based, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum potential value of $400 million.
Posted September 15, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Parker Solar Probe (PSP)
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Solar Wind
Space Weather
The Sun
On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere.
Posted July 10, 2025
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Dark Energy
Dark Matter
Goddard Space Flight Center
Goddard Technology
NASA Centers & Facilities
Technology
The Universe
On June 14 and 16, technicians installed solar panels onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, one of the final steps in assembling the observatory. Collectively called the Solar Array Sun Shield, these panels will power and shade the observatory, enabling all the mission’s observations and helping keep the instruments cool.
Posted July 10, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Ionosphere
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
The Solar System
The Sun
Uncategorized
Wallops Flight Facility
Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics
NASA is launching rockets from a remote Pacific island to study mysterious, high-altitude cloud-like structures that can disrupt critical communication systems. The mission, called Sporadic-E ElectroDynamics, or SEED, opens its three-week launch window from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Friday, June 13.
Posted June 12, 2025
Johnson Space Center
NASA Centers & Facilities
Four NASA astronauts will participate in a welcome home ceremony at Space Center Houston after recently returning from missions aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Don Pettit will share highlights from their missions at 6 p.m.
Posted May 20, 2025
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