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SBIR STTR
Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business
Earlier this month, nine small businesses received 2023 NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Ignite Phase II awards to further develop technologies that may be used in the agency’s missions and in the commercial space industry.  The SBIR Ignite Phase II awardees, who will receive up to $850,000 to fund their projects, are developing techn
Posted August 28, 2024
Missions
Commercial Crew
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Kennedy Space Center
NASA is extending U.S. media accreditation for the launch of the agency’s ninth rotational mission of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station. This mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The application period for U.S. media and U.S.
Posted August 28, 2024
NASA History
STS-128
On Aug. 28, 2009, space shuttle Discovery began its 37th trip into space. The 17A mission to the International Space Station was the 30th shuttle flight to the orbiting lab. During the 14-day mission, the seven-member STS-128 crew worked with Expedition 20, the first six-person crew aboard the station, during nine days of docked operations. […]
Posted August 28, 2024
NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor Space Telescope)
Comets
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA)
Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
The mirrors for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating. NASA’s new asteroid-hunting spacecraft is taking shape at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Posted August 28, 2024
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Ionosphere
Science & Research
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
An international team of scientists has successfully measured a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to Earth as its gravity and magnetic fields. Known as the ambipolar electric field, scientists first hypothesized over 60 years ago that it drove atmospheric escape above Earth’s North and South Poles.
Posted August 28, 2024
Earth
Climate Change
Earth Science
Water on Earth
Extreme wildfires like these will continue to have a large impact on global climate. Stoked by Canada’s warmest and driest conditions in decades, extreme forest fires in 2023 released about 640 million metric tons of carbon, NASA scientists have found.
Posted August 28, 2024
2024 Solar Eclipse
Astrophysics
Audio
Citizen Science
Earth Science
Heliophysics
Planetary Science
Science Activation
During the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse, approximately 770 AudioMoth recording devices were used to capture sound data as part of the Eclipse Soundscapes Project — a multisensory participatory science (also known as “citizen science”) project that is studying how eclipses impact life on Earth.
Posted August 28, 2024
Astrophysics
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Stars
NGC 261 blooms a brilliant ruby red against a myriad of stars in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Discovered on Sept. 5, 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop, this nebula is located in one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic companions, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The ionized gas blazing from within […]
Posted August 28, 2024
Blogs
Earth planning date: Monday, Aug. 26, 2024 Today’s planning day was a good example of how our team comes together to make quick decisions based on new information and science priorities. The original intent of today’s plan was to perform contact science on some interesting bright-toned rubbly rocks in our workspace, seen in the image […]
Posted August 28, 2024
Blogs
Perseverance is officially headed into a new phase of scientific investigation on the Jezero Crater rim!
Posted August 27, 2024
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