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The latest updates from deep space missions, planetary defense, and scientific breakthroughs across the cosmos.
AsteroidsHoliday Asteroid Imaged with NASA Radar
The December 2018 close approach by the large, near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 has provided astronomers an outstanding opportunity to obtain detailed radar images of the surface and shape of the object and to improve the understanding of its orbit. The asteroid will fly safely past Earth on Saturday, Dec. 22, at a distance of about …
ArtemisKennedy Launch Team Performs Mission Countdown ‘Rehearsal’
By Bob Granath NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida Rehearsal helps ensure everyone and everything is ready for a big performance. In the business of launching rockets, a team of engineers and operators at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida recently rehearsed the terminal countdown in a demonstration for the performance of the inaugural flight of …
ISSKennedy Space Center Counts Down to Santa’s Toy Delivery Mission
By Bob Granath NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is counting down to support Santa Claus during his annual mission to deliver toys and other presents to children around the world. Once again, the agency is making the latest technology at the premier, multi-user spaceport available for Santa’s global trip …
AsteroidsLucy Finds Its Place in the Solar System: Navigating NASA’s First Mission to the Trojan Asteroids
In science fiction, explorers can hop in futuristic spaceships and traverse half the galaxy in the blink of a plot hole. However, this sidelines the navigational acrobatics required in order to guarantee real-life mission success. In 2021, the feat of navigation that is the Lucy mission will launch. To steer Lucy towards its targets doesn’t …
ISSThe Coolest Experiment in the Universe
What’s the coldest place you can think of? Temperatures on a winter day in Antarctica dip as low as −120ºF (−85ºC). On the dark side of the Moon, they hit −280ºF (−173ºC). But inside NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory on the International Space Station, scientists are creating something even colder. The Cold Atom Lab (CAL) is …
James WebbNASA’s Webb Telescope Wrapped in a Mobile Clean Room
Before moving NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, and to assure that it’s kept clean and safe, Webb got a very special wrapping treatment. The wrapping acts as a “mobile clean room,” safeguarding the technological marvel from contaminants. All satellites and observatories are created in clean rooms. Clean rooms filter out harmful contaminants, as even a …
ArtemisInnovative Liquid Hydrogen Storage to Support Space Launch System
By Bob Granath NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida As NASA continues preparations for the first launch of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft that will send humans beyond low-Earth orbit, Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is preparing to build the world’s largest liquid hydrogen storage …
ISSNASA Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Historic Space Station Mission
By Jim Cawley NASA’s Kennedy Space Center On the 20th anniversary of the first International Space Station assembly mission, members of that Shuttle Endeavour crew received a very special message from more than 200 miles above the Earth. “Our mission, our partnership, our unprecedented work on this most complex of all machines ever built is …
AsteroidsSee a Passing Comet This Sunday
On Sunday, Dec. 16, the comet known as 46P/Wirtanen will make one of the 10 closest comet flybys of Earth in 70 years, and you may even be able to see it without a telescope. Although the approach will be a distant 7.1 million miles (11.4 million kilometers, or 30 lunar distances) from Earth, it’s …
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