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NASA History
On Oct. 24, 1998, NASA launched the Deep Space 1 spacecraft. Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Deep Space 1 served as a testbed for 12 new technologies, including solar electric, also known as ion propulsion, for use in future deep space and interplanetary missions. The spacecraft, the first in NASA’s New […]
Posted October 24, 2023
Europa Clipper
Europa
General
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jupiter Moons
Small Bodies of the Solar System
The Solar System
To explore the mysterious ice-encrusted moon Europa, the mission will need to endure bombardment by radiation and high-energy particles surrounding Jupiter.
Posted October 24, 2023
Katherine Johnson IV and V Facility
FAIRMONT – The NASA Independent Verification & Validation Program’s Orion Team received an award for their contributions to the Artemis I Mission during a ceremony hosted at the I-79 Technology Park, in Fairmont.
Posted October 24, 2023
Earth
International Space Station (ISS)
Jasmin Moghbeli
While the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above Earth on Oct. 20, 2023, astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli snapped this image of a storm in the Arabian Sea, less than 700 miles off the coast of Oman. In addition to photographing our planet from the space station, NASA also observes Earth with satellites. These satellites collect […]
Posted October 24, 2023
Earth
Earth Science
Earth's Atmosphere
Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)
Freight, smoke, and ozone impact the health of both Chicago residents and communities downwind. A NASA-led mission looks to help by mapping air pollutants at a neighborhood scale.
Posted October 24, 2023
Technology
Goddard Space Flight Center
Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy (OTPS)
Science & Research
Science-enabling Technology
Technology for Space Travel
Technology Research
Lidar technology improvements will help NASA scientists and explorers with remote sensing and surveying, mapping, 3D-image scanning, hazard detection and avoidance, and navigation.
Posted October 24, 2023
Earth Science
Science-enabling Technology
Technology Highlights
Next-generation software is making it easier for researchers, policy makers, and citizen scientists to model air quality and greenhouse gases using NASA meteorological data.
Posted October 24, 2023
Glenn Research Center
People of NASA
>back to gallery Maricela Lizcano never dreamed of working for NASA. In fact, she wasn’t planning on furthering her education until she had a revelation in her late twenties. “I was watching one of those forensic shows, and I loved the way they caught the criminals with science,” said Lizcano, research materials engineer at NASA’s […]
Posted October 24, 2023
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Astrophysics
Black Holes
Earth-like Exoplanets
Exoplanet Detection Methods
Exoplanet Science
Exoplanet Transits
Exoplanets
Galaxies
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes Research
Gas Giant Exoplanets
General
Gravitational Microlensing
Kepler / K2
Missions
Neptune-Like Exoplanets
Neutron Stars
Science & Research
Stars
Studying Exoplanets
Super-Earth Exoplanets
Terrestrial Exoplanets
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
The Kuiper Belt
The Milky Way
The Solar System
The Universe
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. The mission will monitor hundreds of millions of stars in search of tell-tale flickers that betray the presence of planets, distant stars, small icy objects that haunt the outskirts of our solar system, isolated […]
Posted October 24, 2023
General
Ames Research Center
CubeSats
Low-Earth Orbit Economy
Small Satellite Missions
Small Spacecraft Technology Program
SmallSats Program
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Tech Demo Missions
NASA’s Starling CubeSats are zipping through low Earth orbit in the agency’s latest test of robotic swarm technologies for space.  The four Starling spacecraft, launched in July 2023, are testing a group of small satellites ability to coordinate and cooperate independently without real-time updates from mission control.
Posted October 24, 2023
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