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On August 12-13, 24 students from the West Coast cohort of NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) gathered at University of California, Irvine (UCI) to present their final research to a room of mentors, professors, family, and NASA personnel.
Posted September 26, 2024
Ames Research Center
Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business
Small Satellite Missions
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
Space Sustainability
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA is advancing an innovative approach to enabling commercial inspection of defunct, or inoperable, satellites in low Earth orbit, a precursor to capturing and repairing or removing the satellites.
Posted September 25, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
Marshall Presents Small Business Awards for Fiscal Year 2024 By Wayne Smith NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center honored top contractors, subcontractors, teams, and individuals of fiscal year 2024 at the 38th meeting of Marshall’s Small Business Alliance.
Posted September 25, 2024
International Space Station (ISS)
Commercial Crew
Humans in Space
ISS Research
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff is targeted for 1:17 p.m. EDT, Saturday, Sept. 28, from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Posted September 25, 2024
Wallops Flight Facility
NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to support the launch of a suborbital sounding rocket for the Department of Defense during a launch window that runs 1:45 to 6:30 p.m. EDT each day from Sept. 26 to 30.  No real-time launch status updates will be available and the launch will not be livestreamed.  […]
Posted September 25, 2024
NASA launched its reimagined art program by unveiling two murals on Sept. 23, 2024. The murals, titled “To the Moon, and Back,” were created by New York-based artist team Geraluz and WERC and use geometrical patterns to invite deeper reflection on the exploration, creativity, and connection with the cosmos. The vision of this next phase […]
Posted September 25, 2024
Johnson Space Center
Diversity at NASA
Hispanic Heritage Month
NASA Centers & Facilities
People of Johnson
People of NASA
As systems integration team lead for NASA’s Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program (CLDP), Hector Chavez helps build a future where NASA and private industry work together to push the boundaries of space exploration.
Posted September 25, 2024
Space Launch System (SLS)
Artemis
General
Marshall Space Flight Center
Michoud Assembly Facility
Manufacturing equipment that will be used to build components for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for future Artemis missions is being installed at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Posted September 25, 2024
Space Communications & Navigation Program
Ames Research Center
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Goddard Space Flight Center
Small Satellite Missions
Space Communications Technology
Technology Demonstration
NASA’s TBIRD (TeraByte InfraRed Delivery) demonstration and its host spacecraft — the PTD-3 (Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-3) — have completed their technology demonstration. The TBIRD payload spent the past two years breaking world records for the fastest satellite downlink from space using laser communications.
Posted September 25, 2024
HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog)
Analog Field Testing
Johnson Space Center
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
An all-volunteer crew on a simulated trip to Mars “returned” to Earth on Sept. 23, 2024, after being isolated in a tiny habitat at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Their work is contributing to the science that will propel humanity to the Moon and eventually Mars. The HERA missions provide valuable scientific insights into how […]
Posted September 25, 2024
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