Science Mission Directorate

CubeSat Launch Initiative
CubeSats
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics
Heliophysics Division
Heliophysics Research Program
Science Mission Directorate
Small Satellite Missions
SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment)
NASA’s CubeSat Radio Interferometry Experiment, or CURIE, is scheduled to launch July 9, 2024, to investigate the unresolved origins of radio waves coming from the Sun.
Posted July 8, 2024
COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager)
Astrophysics Division
Astrophysics Explorers Program
Science Mission Directorate
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) mission. The firm-fixed-price contract has a value of approximately $69 million, which includes launch services and other mission related costs.
Posted July 2, 2024
2023 Solar Eclipse
2024 Solar Eclipse
Earth Science
For Kids and Students
Heliophysics
Science Activation
Science Mission Directorate
The Space Science Institute, with funding from the NASA Science Mission Directorate and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, provided unprecedented training, support, and supplies to 15,000 libraries in the U.S. and territories in support of public engagement during the 2023 and 2024 eclipses.
Posted June 28, 2024
GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
Earth Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Kennedy Space Center
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
NASA successfully launched the fourth and final satellite in a series of advanced weather satellites for NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) at 5:26 p.m. EDT Tuesday.
Posted June 26, 2024
Asteroids
DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)
Missions
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
NASA has selected 12 participating scientists to join ESA’s (European Space Agency) Hera mission, which is scheduled to launch in October 2024. Hera will study the binary asteroid system Didymos, including the moonlet Dimorphos, which was impacted by NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft on Sept. 26, 2022.
Posted June 25, 2024
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)
NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor Space Telescope)
Planetary Science Division
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
For the benefit of all, NASA released a summary Thursday of the fifth biennial Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise. NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, in partnership with FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and with the assistance of the U.S.
Posted June 20, 2024
Science Mission Directorate
June 18, 2024 At NASA we always say that exploration enables science, and science enables exploration.
Posted June 19, 2024
GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
Earth Observatory
Earth Science Division
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Science Mission Directorate
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton, Colorado, to build the spacecraft for NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program. This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at approximately $2.27 billion.
Posted June 18, 2024
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
Planetary Defense
Planetary Science Division
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
NASA will host a virtual media briefing at 3:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 20, to discuss a new summary of a recent tabletop exercise to simulate national and international responses to a hypothetical asteroid impact threat. The fifth biennial Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise was held April 2 and 3, 2024, at the Johns Hopkins […]
Posted June 14, 2024
Space Weather
Earth's Atmosphere
Heliophysics
Science & Research
Science Mission Directorate
NASA has selected three proposals for concept studies of missions to investigate the complex system of space weather that surrounds our planet and how it’s connected to Earth’s atmosphere.
Posted June 11, 2024
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