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The latest updates from deep space missions, planetary defense, and scientific breakthroughs across the cosmos.
ISSSolicitations: Where to Submit InSPA Proposals
NASA and the ISS National Laboratory are collaborating on a strategy and set of recommended targets for rapid development of In Space Production Applications (InSPA) over the next ten years, with concentration on accelerating carefully selected concepts with the potential for a rapid return on investment. U.S. businesses, institutions and non-profits may seek full funding support by …
AsteroidsNASA Telescope Takes 12-Year Time-Lapse Movie of Entire Sky
Pictures of the sky can show us cosmic wonders; movies can bring them to life. Movies from NASA’s NEOWISE space telescope are revealing motion and change across the sky. Every six months, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or NEOWISE, spacecraft completes one trip halfway around the Sun, taking images in all directions. …
ISSResupply Mission for NASA Carries Scientific Experiments to Space Station
Lee esta historia en español aquí. The 18th Northrop Grumman commercial resupply services mission for NASA to the International Space Station carries scientific investigations of topics such as plant mutations and mudflow structure along with a demonstration of camera technology and small satellites from Japan, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. The Cygnus spacecraft carrying these investigations to the orbiting laboratory is …
ExoplanetsTESS Status Update
TESS Resumes Normal Operations NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey (TESS) began its return to normal operations on Thursday, Oct. 13, at around 6:30 p.m. EDT. Engineers successfully powered up the instrument, and the spacecraft resumed its regular fine-pointing mode. The team expects that TESS will resume science observations later today, and all science data stored on …
Asteroids1st NASA Asteroid Sample Return Mission on Track for Fall ’23 Delivery
NASA’s first asteroid sample return spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, fired its thrusters for 30 seconds on Sept. 21 and nudged its trajectory toward Earth. The resulting course correction keeps the vehicle on track to deliver a sample of asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, completing a seven-year mission. The delivery itself, however, is not a …
ISSSpace Station Science Highlights: Week of October 10, 2022
Lee esta historia en español. Crew members aboard the International Space Station conducted scientific investigations during the week of Oct. 10 that included collecting data to support studies of how the body adapts to space, comparing properties of soil microbes in space and on the ground, and mapping radiation doses inside the space station. Crew-4, …
Deep SpaceNASA Studies Origins of ‘Weird’ Solar System Object: Dwarf Planet Haumea
Using computer simulations, scientists based at NASA have pieced together the story of how the dwarf planet Haumea, found in the Kuiper Belt of icy worlds beyond the orbit of outermost planet Neptune, became one of the most unusual objects in the solar system. Nearly the size of Pluto, Haumea is strange in several ways. …
ISSNASA’s Swift, Fermi Missions Detect Exceptional Cosmic Blast
Astronomers around the world are captivated by an unusually bright and long-lasting pulse of high-energy radiation that swept over Earth Sunday, Oct. 9. The emission came from a gamma-ray burst (GRB) – the most powerful class of explosions in the universe – that ranks among the most luminous events known. On Sunday morning Eastern time, …
ArtemisYo soy Artemis: Verónica Pruneda
El arduo trabajo y la preparación que se requieren para lograr grandes metas es algo que Verónica Pruneda conoce muy bien. Como jefa del proyecto de software en la oficina de operaciones de vuelo de la estación en órbita lunar Gateway de la NASA, Pruneda está dando grandes pasos para el establecimiento de una red …
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