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NASA Glenn’s AeroSpace Frontiers Newsletter Takes a Bow

Since April 1999, the AeroSpace Frontiers (AF) newsletter has shared information monthly on NASA Glenn Research Center’s people, projects, and progress. If you were looking for news on any of these topics, there was a good chance you could read all about them in AF each month. The newsletter has evolved in the last 26 […]

Posted September 25, 2025

Glenn Research Center

AeroSpace Frontiers

Newsletters

NASA Names Glenn’s Steven Sinacore to Lead Fission Surface Power

NASA leadership has named NASA Glenn Research Center’s Steven A.

Posted September 25, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center

Earth Science

Science & Research

NASA Awards Atmosphere Research Support Contract

NASA has selected Science and Technology Corp. of Columbia, Maryland, to support atmospheric science research and development at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Posted September 25, 2025

Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

Goddard Space Flight Center

Missions

NASA Headquarters

SBIR

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Awards Company to Attempt Swift Spacecraft Orbit Boost

Driving rapid innovation in the American space industry, NASA has awarded Katalyst Space Technologies of Flagstaff, Arizona, a contract to raise a spacecraft’s orbit.

Posted September 24, 2025

Office of International and Interagency Relations (OIIR)

Artemis Accords

NASA Headquarters

NASA Highlights Space Innovation, Exploration at Space Conference

Led by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy, an agency delegation will participate in the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Sydney, Australia, from Sunday, Sept. 28 to Friday, Oct. 3. The IAC, organized by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), is hosted this year by the Space Industry Association of Australia.

Posted September 24, 2025

Ames Research Center

ISS Research

Robotics

NASA’s Astrobee Robots Advance Through Strategic Partnership

NASA is continuing the Astrobee mission through a collaboration with Arkisys, Inc., of Los Alamitos, California, who was awarded a reimbursable Space Act Agreement to sustain and maintain the robotic platform aboard the International Space Station.

Posted September 24, 2025

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Flight Innovation

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Lab Builds New Aircraft to Support Complex Flight Research

NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is building a new subscale aircraft to support increasingly complex flight research, offering a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to crewed missions.

Posted September 24, 2025

Air Quality

Airborne Science

Earth

Goddard Space Flight Center

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA Aircraft Coordinate Science Flights to Measure Air Quality

Magic is in the air. No wait… MAGEQ is in the air, featuring scientists from NASA centers across the country who teamed up with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and several other university and government partners and collaborators.

Posted September 24, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Earth

Goddard Space Flight Center

Human Dimensions

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Water on Earth

Wildfires

NASA Data Powers New Tool to Protect Water Supply After Fires

When wildfires scorch a landscape, the flames are just the beginning. NASA is helping U.S. communities foresee and prepare for what can follow: mudslides, flash flooding, and contaminated water supplies.

Posted September 24, 2025

Help Map the Moon’s Molten Flows!

When asteroids hit the Moon, the impacts carve out craters and with enough energy and pressure, melt parts of the rocky surface. Often, the white hot, gooey melt (it’s like lava, except that it doesn’t erupt from underground) sloshes around the new crater and surrounding regions. The molten rock cools and hardens into vast rock […]

Posted September 24, 2025