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Artemis
Artemis Accords
Office of International and Interagency Relations (OIIR)
During a ceremony at the Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels on Tuesday, Belgium became the 34th country to sign the Artemis Accords. The accords establish a practical set of principles to guide space exploration cooperation among nations, including those participating in NASA’s Artemis campaign.
Posted January 24, 2024
Asteroids
Meteors & Meteorites
Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA)
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
The Scout impact assessment system calculated where and when the asteroid 2024 BX1 would impact Earth’s atmosphere, providing a useful demonstration of planetary defense capability. A small asteroid about 3 feet (1 meter) in size disintegrated harmlessly over Germany on Sunday, Jan. 21, at 1:32 a.m. local time (CET).
Posted January 24, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Flight Opportunities Program
Game Changing Development Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA is announcing 60 winning teams for its third TechRise Student Challenge, a nationwide contest to engage students in technology, science, and space exploration. The student teams will work together to turn their proposed science and technology experiments into reality ahead of NASA-sponsored suborbital flight tests this summer.
Posted January 24, 2024
Diversity at NASA
Careers
LGBTQ Pride
Celebrating Pride: Meet Bob Lutz At NASA, diversity and inclusion drive workplace creativity, innovation and mission success. For #PrideMonth we’re celebrating the stories of our #LGBTQ community. What is your role at NASA?I’m a computer engineer.
Posted January 24, 2024
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson speaks during a NASA Safety Town Hall, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024 at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. The Safety Town Hall is held annually near the Day of Remembrance to learn from past errors and pay tribute to those that lost their lives in the quest for […]
Posted January 24, 2024
Astrophysics Division
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Gravitational Waves
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
Stephen Lesage’s phone started vibrating just after halftime on Oct. 9, 2022, while he was watching a soccer game in Atlanta with a friend. When Lesage saw the incoming messages, the match no longer seemed important. There had been a rare cosmic event, and he needed to get to his computer immediately. NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray […]
Posted January 24, 2024
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
The Universe
A barred spiral galaxy and a lenticular galaxy come together to create this interacting pair known as Arp 140. The lenticular galaxy, NGC 274, is visible on the right side of this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, and the barred spiral, NGC 275, is at left. The twosome is located in the constellation Cetus.  Lenticular […]
Posted January 24, 2024
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Goddard Space Flight Center
GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
GOES-U
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U (GOES-U), the fourth and final weather-observing and environmental monitoring satellite in NOAA’s GOES-R Series, is now in Florida. The satellite landed on Tuesday, Jan.
Posted January 24, 2024
Artemis
Missions
NASA released on Tuesday the outcomes of its 2023 Moon to Mars Architecture Concept Review, the agency’s process to build a roadmap for exploration of the solar system for the benefit of humanity. The Moon to Mars architecture approach incorporates feedback from U.S. industry, academia, international partners, and the NASA workforce.
Posted January 23, 2024
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