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Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS)
Earth Science
Planetary Science Division
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
SmallSats Program
Wallops Flight Facility
NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace Inc. of Cedar Park, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission, which aims to understand why, when, and where tropical convective storms form, and why some storms produce extreme weather.
Posted March 4, 2025
Johnson Space Center
Commercial Crew
General
International Space Station (ISS)
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
People of Johnson
Chris Wade is a visiting vehicle integration manager for SpaceX vehicles in the International Space Station Transportation Integration Office. He plays a key role in ensuring that all vehicle requirements are on track to support SpaceX missions to the space station.
Posted March 4, 2025
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Ames Research Center
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Water & Energy Cycle
A NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)-supported research and development team is making it easier for farmers and ranchers to manage their water resources.
Posted March 4, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Artemis
Earth's Moon
Johnson Space Center
Science Mission Directorate
Carrying NASA technology demonstrations and science investigations, Intuitive Machines is targeting their Moon landing no earlier than 12:32 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 6.
Posted March 4, 2025
Night Sky Network
by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific What Are Messier Objects? During the 18th century, astronomer and comet hunter Charles Messier wanted to distinguish the ‘faint fuzzies’ he observed from any potential new comets. As a result, Messier cataloged 110 objects in the night sky, ranging from star clusters to galaxies to nebulae.
Posted March 4, 2025
General
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Goddard Space Flight Center
Space Communications & Navigation Program
NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3 when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to acquire and track Earth-based navigation signals on the Moon’s surface.   The LuGRE payload’s success in lunar orbit and on the surface indicates that signals from the GNSS (Global Navigation Satelli
Posted March 4, 2025
NASA History
General
Johnson Space Center
On March 2, 1995, space shuttle Endeavour launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its eighth trip into space, on the STS-67 Astro-2 mission.
Posted March 4, 2025
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
The shadow of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander can be seen in this photo from the Moon, taken after landing on March 2, 2025. The lander safely delivered a suite of 10 NASA science and technology instruments; these instruments will operate on the lunar surface for approximately one lunar day, or about 14 Earth […]
Posted March 4, 2025
Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Helix Nebula
Hubble Space Telescope
Marshall Astrophysics
Marshall Space Flight Center
Nebulae
Planetary Nebulae
Stars
The Universe
White Dwarfs
A planet may have been destroyed by a white dwarf at the center of a planetary nebula — the first time this has been seen. As described in our latest press release, this would explain a mysterious X-ray signal that astronomers have detected from the Helix Nebula for over 40 years. The Helix is a […]
Posted March 4, 2025
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Planetary Science
The Kuiper Belt
The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show “3 Body Problem.” There’s no problem, however, with what a team of researchers say is likely a stable trio of icy space rocks in the solar […]
Posted March 4, 2025
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