Space News
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Monitoring Microorganisms
7 Min Read Monitoring Microorganisms Science in Space January 2024 Crew members on the International Space Station have a lot of company – millions of bacteria and other microbes. The…
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NASA Invests in Small Business Tech to Advance Alternative Fuels, More
4 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Dr. Darayas Patel (left), professor of mathematics and computer science at Oakwood University, and four Oakwood University students record…
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Wideband Technology
Overview As NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) constellation approaches retirement, partnerships with commercial industry will play a critical role in the development of future space communications and navigation…
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NASA Continues Artemis Moon Rocket Engine Tests with 1st Hot Fire of 2024
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA completed a full-duration, 500-second hot fire of an RS-25 certification engine Jan. 17, continuing a critical test series…
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Laser Instrument on NASA’s LRO Successfully ‘Pings’ Indian Moon Lander
5 min read Laser Instrument on NASA’s LRO Successfully ‘Pings’ Indian Moon Lander For the first time at the Moon, a laser beam was transmitted and reflected between an orbiting…
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The Marshall Star for January 17, 2024
28 Min Read The Marshall Star for January 17, 2024 ‘Be King’: Team Redstone Invites All to Honor Civil Rights Icon’s Legacy By Jessica Barnett Several accomplished speakers took to…
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NASA Sets Briefings for Crew-8, International Space Station Missions
The four crew members representing NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station pose for an official portrait at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA will host…
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An Aurora in Another Light
NASA/Lauren Dauphin and Wanmei Liang; NOAA The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite sensor on the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, over western Canada…
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Robot Team Builds High-Performance Digital Structure for NASA
Research engineer Christine Gregg inspects a Mobile Metamaterial Internal Co-Integrator (MMIC-I) builder robot. These simple robots are part of a hardware and software system NASA researchers are developing to autonomously…
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20 Years After Landing: How NASA’s Twin Rovers Changed Mars Science
NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers landed on the Red Planet on Jan. 3 and 24, 2004, respectively. This image shows a view Opportunity captured of its own shadow on…