Space News
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NASA Wallops to Launch Three Sounding Rockets During Solar Eclipse
Three Black Brant IX sounding rockets for the Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) mission are scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility launch range in Virginia. The launch…
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Advances in Understanding COPV Structural Life
The Structures Technical Discipline Team (TDT) was involved in numerous investigations this past year, but composites, fracture mechanics, and pressure vessels dominate the list. All three of these specialties are…
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Harnessing the 2024 Eclipse for Ionospheric Discovery with HamSCI
3 min read Harnessing the 2024 Eclipse for Ionospheric Discovery with HamSCI As the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, draws closer, a vibrant community of enthusiastic amateur radio…
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How NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Measure Ages of Stars
Guessing your age might be a popular carnival game, but for astronomers it’s a real challenge to determine the ages of stars. Once a star like our Sun has settled…
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Eclipses Near and Far
On April 8, 2024, North America will witness its last total solar eclipse for more than twenty years. Other parts of the world will experience the rare celestial event in…
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The Marshall Star for April 3, 2024
23 Min Read The Marshall Star for April 3, 2024 Huntsville, Marshall Preparing to Celebrate Total Solar Eclipse By Celine Smith On April 8 between 1 and 3 p.m., the…
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NASA Selects Companies to Advance Moon Mobility for Artemis Missions
An artist’s concept design of NASA’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle. NASA NASA has selected Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, and Venturi Astrolab to advance capabilities for a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) that…
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Scientists Pursue the Total Solar Eclipse with NASA Jet Planes
5 min read Scientists Pursue the Total Solar Eclipse with NASA Jet Planes The April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse will produce stunning views across North America. While anyone along…
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Carving a Path
NASA/Woody Hoburg These aren’t highways in this picture taken on Aug. 15, 2023; they’re paths carved by glaciers as they move through the Karakoram mountain range north of the Himalayas.…
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NASA Receives 13 Nominations for the 28th Annual Webby Awards
6 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Since it began in 1958, NASA has been charged by law with spreading the word about its work “to…