Space News
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NASA’s Webb Discovers Dusty ‘Cat’s Tail’ in Beta Pictoris System
6 Min Read NASA’s Webb Discovers Dusty ‘Cat’s Tail’ in Beta Pictoris System This image from Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows the star system Beta Pictoris. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA,…
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Discovery Alert: Earth-sized Planet Has a ‘Lava Hemisphere’
4 min read Discovery Alert: Earth-sized Planet Has a ‘Lava Hemisphere’ Like Kepler-10 b, illustrated above, the exoplanet HD 63433 d is a small, rocky planet in a tight orbit…
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Artemis Media Resources
Media Contacts NASA Headquarters: Kathryn Hambleton, Rachel Kraft, Vanessa Lloyd, 202-358-1100 Latest Updates: Artemis blog Briefings Artemis Update (Jan 9, 2024) Related Resources Artemis WHAT/WHY/HOWArtemis Accords Program and Project ResourcesEducation and STEM Engagement Broadcast…
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Orbital-1 Launch’s 10th Anniversary
NASA/Bill Ingalls An Orbital Sciences Corporation (now Northrop Grumman) Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft launches from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Thursday, January 9, 2014. The Orbital-1…
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Early Stage Innovations (ESI) 2023
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Back to ESI Home Advancing Radiation-Hardened Photon Counting Sensor Technologies Karl Berggren Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radiation hardness study…
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Continuous Bending-mode Elastocaloric Composite Refrigeration System for Compact, Lightweight, High-Efficiency Cooling
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Nenad Miljkovic University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Traditional elastocaloric refrigeration systems are based on uniaxial compression of the elastocaloric…
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Advancing Elastocaloric Refrigeration through Co-design of Materials and Systems
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Patrick Shamberger Texas A&M University Elastocaloric materials heat up or cool down when stress is applied to them or…
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Physics-based Modeling and Tool Development for the Characterization and Uncertainty Quantification of Crater Formation and Ejecta Dynamics due to Plume-surface Interaction
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) David Scarborough Auburn University Professor Scarborough will develop and implement tools to extract critical data from experimental measurements of…
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10 Years Ago: The First Operational Cygnus Cargo Mission to the Space Station
To replace the cargo and crew transportation services to and from the International Space Station following the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011, the United States developed a novel…
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Hubble Finds Weird Home of Farthest Fast Radio Burst
5 min read Hubble Finds Weird Home of Farthest Fast Radio Burst A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the host galaxy of an exceptionally powerful fast radio burst, FRB…