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NASA Kennedy Digs Latest Robot Test

NASA’s RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot) manipulates a simulant of regolith – the fragmental material found on the Moon’s surface – during a site preparation test inside of the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations Lab at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 27.

Posted June 3, 2025

NASA Langley Uses Height, Gravity to Test Long, Flexible Booms

Researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have developed a technique to test long, flexible, composite booms for use in space in such a way that gravity helps, rather than hinders, the process.

Posted May 29, 2025

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Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium

Lunar Surface Innovation Initiative

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Top Prize Awarded in Lunar Autonomy Challenge to Virtually Map Moon’s Surface

NASA named Stanford University of California winner of the Lunar Autonomy Challenge, a six-month competition for U.S.

Posted May 16, 2025

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Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

NASA Kennedy Breathes Life into Moon Soil Testing

As NASA works to establish a long-term presence on the Moon, researchers have reached a breakthrough by extracting oxygen at a commercial scale from simulated lunar soil at Swamp Works at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The achievement moves NASA one step closer to its goal of utilizing resources on the Moon and beyond […]

Posted May 5, 2025

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Research and Technology at Kennedy Space Center

NASA Moon Observing Instrument to Get Another Shot at Lunar Ops

A NASA-developed technology that recently proved its capabilities in the harsh environment of space will soon head back to the Moon to search for gases trapped under the lunar surface thanks to a new Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between NASA and commercial company Magna Petra Corp.

Posted April 28, 2025

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Science & Research

NASA’s Dust Shield Successfully Repels Lunar Regolith on Moon

NASA’s Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) successfully demonstrated its ability to remove regolith, or lunar dust and dirt, from its various surfaces on the Moon during Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which concluded on March 16. Lunar dust is extremely abrasive and electrostatic, which means it clings to anything that carries a charge.

Posted March 27, 2025

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Technology for Space Travel

The Sky’s Not the Limit: Testing Precision Landing Tech for Future Space Missions

Nestled in a pod under an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft wing, flying above California, and traveling up to the speed of sound, NASA put a commercial sensor technology to the test.

Posted March 26, 2025

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Technology

Goodnight, Moon: NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture Lunar Sunset

This compressed, resolution-limited gif shows the view of lunar sunset from one of the six Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 cameras on Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander, which operated on the Moon’s surface for a little more than 14 days and stopped, as anticipated, a few hours into lunar night. SCALPSS was taking […]

Posted March 19, 2025

Artemis

Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)