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NIAC Studies
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Selim ShahriarNorthwestern University, Evanston Progress in physics has largely been driven by the development and verification of new theories that unify different fundamental forces of nature.
Posted January 10, 2025
NIAC Studies
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Saurabh VilekarPrecision Combustion Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) proposes to develop a uniquely compact, lightweight, low-power, and durable Microlith® Thermo-Photo-Catalytic (TPC) Reactor for crewed Mars transit spacecraft O2 supply.
Posted January 10, 2025
NIAC Studies
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
John MatherNASA Goddard Space Flight Center We will design the first family of ISEE’s (Inflatable Starshade for Earthlike Exoplanets) with sizes from 35 to 100 m diameter. A starshade would enable any telescope to observe exoplanets, a top priority for astronomy worldwide.
Posted January 10, 2025
NIAC Studies
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
Marco QuadrelliNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory There is a strong coupling mechanism between the lithosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, atmosphere, and the plasmasphere of many planetary bodies.
Posted January 10, 2025
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program
NIAC Studies
Ben HockmanNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory A basketball-sized towbody containing a camera, atmospheric sampling instruments, and support hardware is suspended on a multi-kilometer tether from a high-altitude balloon in the Venusian atmosphere, allowing it to peer beneath the dense cloud layer and image the surface at high resolution.
Posted January 10, 2025
Goddard Space Flight Center
Artemis
Blue Ghost (lander)
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Earth's Moon
Near Space Network
Space Communications & Navigation Program
As the Artemis campaign leads humanity to the Moon and eventually Mars, NASA is refining its state-of-the-art navigation and positioning technologies to guide a new era of lunar exploration.
Posted January 10, 2025
Read this release in English here. En el año 2024, la temperatura promedio de la superficie de la Tierra fue la más cálida que se haya registrado, según un análisis liderado por científicos de la NASA. “Una vez más, se ha batido el récord de temperatura: 2024 fue el año más cálido desde que se […]
Posted January 10, 2025
Langley Research Center
General
NASA Centers & Facilities
Space Nuclear Propulsion (SNP)
Space Technology Mission Directorate
The trip to Mars and back is not one for the faint of heart. We’re not talking days, weeks, or months. But there are technologies that could help transport a crew on that round-trip journey in a relatively quick two years. One option NASA is exploring is nuclear electric propulsion, which employs a nuclear reactor […]
Posted January 10, 2025
Wallops Flight Facility
A suborbital rocket is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a window extending from Monday, Jan. 13, through Thursday, Jan. 16. This launch supports the Missile Defense Agency, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division’s White Sands Detachment, and other Department of Defense organizations.
Posted January 10, 2025
Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. Earth’s average surface temperature in 2024 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis led by NASA scientists. Global temperatures in 2024 were 2.30 degrees Fahrenheit (1.28 degrees Celsius) above the agency’s 20th-century baseline (1951-1980), which tops the record set in 2023.
Posted January 10, 2025
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