Science Instruments

Science-enabling Technology
Earth
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Earth's Moon
General
Goddard Space Flight Center
Langley Research Center
Lunar Science
Science Instruments
Science Mission Directorate
Small Satellite Missions
Technology
NASA will soon launch a one-of-a-kind instrument, called Arcstone, to improve the quality of data from Earth-viewing sensors in orbit. In this technology demonstration, the mission will measure sunlight reflected from the Moon— a technique called lunar calibration.
Posted June 21, 2025
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Ames Research Center
Science Instruments
NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley houses a unique laboratory: the Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF). The engineers at the ASF are responsible for building, maintaining, and operating numerous instruments that get deployed on research aircraft, but one of their most important roles is instrument calibration.
Posted June 11, 2025
Ames Research Center
CubeSats
Science Instruments
Small Satellite Missions
Technology for Living in Space
Editor’s Note: This article was updated Nov. 20, 2024 shortly after BioSentinel’s mission marked two years of operation in deep space. Astronauts live in a pretty extreme environment aboard the International Space Station.
Posted November 20, 2024
Johnson Space Center
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
Missions
NASA Centers & Facilities
Science Instruments
Technology
Microgravity had no immediate effect on a person’s ability to perceive the height of an object, indicating that astronauts can safely perform tasks that rely on accurate and precise height judgments soon after arrival in space. We use the height and width of objects around us to complete tasks such as reaching for objects and deciding whether […]
Posted October 21, 2024
Earth's Moon
Artemis
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lunar Science
Mars
Planetary Geosciences & Geophysics
Planetary Science
Science Instruments
The technology behind the two seismometers that make up NASA’s Farside Seismic Suite was used to detect more than a thousand Red Planet quakes. The most sensitive instrument ever built to measure quakes and meteor strikes on other worlds is getting closer to its journey to the mysterious far side of the Moon. It’s one […]
Posted May 29, 2024
Sign up for our newsletter:

Categories

3
107
26
158
2
1
2
4
1
2
2
1
177
1
1
12
16
3
1
3
1
75
2
6
36
5
1
1
1
45
1
1
1
10
296
1
28
4
3
1
195
38
6
4
1
237
2
19
1
16
10
544
11
4
Io
3
6
10
3
1
3
2
3
6
7
10
4
1
13
1
1
33
5
1

Recent Posts

Newsletter Archive