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22 Aug 2024 23:26

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA’s EXCITE Mission Prepared for Scientific Balloon Flight" Scientists and engineers are ready to fly an infrared mission called EXCITE (EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope) to the edge of space.  EXCITE is designed to study atmospheres around exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, during circumpolar long-duration scientific balloon flights. But first, it must complete a test flight during NASA’s fall 2024 scientific ballooning campaign from Fort Sumner, […] [August 22, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/scientific-balloons/nasas-excite-mission-prepared-for-scientific-balloon-flight/

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22 Aug 2024 22:26

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Selects Three New Venture-Class Launch Service Providers" NASA has selected three additional companies to provide launch services for future agency missions through its VADR (Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare) contract. The companies awarded are: The VADR contract is a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity instrument with an ordering period through Feb. 3, 2027 and a maximum total value of $300 million across all VADR [

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22 Aug 2024 21:09

#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Sunrise Begins" The International Space Station was orbiting on a northeast track 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean when this photograph captured the first rays of an orbital sunrise illuminating Earth's atmosphere. [August 22, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/iss071e487194orig.jpg

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22 Aug 2024 17:51

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Moves Artemis II Rocket Adapter, Prepares for Shipment" NASA rolled out a key piece of space flight hardware for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the first crewed mission of NASA’s Artemis campaign from Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Wednesday, Aug. 21 for shipment to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The cone-shaped launch vehicle stage adapter connects [

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22 Aug 2024 14:51

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Update on NASA Wallops Aircraft and Airfield Operations" The NASA Aircraft Management Advisory Board (AMAB), which manages the agency’s aircraft fleet, has decided to relocate the agency’s P-3 aircraft at Wallops to Langley Research Center. The decision is part of a long-running, NASA-wide aircraft enterprise-management activity to consolidate the aircraft fleet where feasible and achieve greater operational efficiencies while reducing our infrastructure footprint. [

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22 Aug 2024 06:41

#NewImage from #Nasa: "The Dark Tower in Scorpius" In silhouette against a crowded star field along the tail of the arachnological constellation Scorpius, this dusty cosmic cloud evokes for some the image of an ominous dark tower. In fact, monstrous clumps of dust and molecular gas collapsing to form stars may well lurk within the dark nebula, a structure that spans almost 40 light-years across this gorgeous telescopic portrait. A cometary globule, the swept-back cloud is shaped by intense ultraviolet radiation from the OB association of very hot stars in NGC 6231, off the upper right corner of the scene. That energetic ultraviolet light also powers the globule's bordering reddish glow of hydrogen gas. Hot stars embedded in the dust can be seen as bluish reflection nebulae. This dark tower and associated nebulae are about 5,000 light-years away. [August 22, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2408/DarkTowerCDK700-Selby1024.jpg

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21 Aug 2024 21:51

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "2025 Human Lander Challenge" In-space propulsion systems utilizing cryogenic liquids as propellants are necessary to achieve NASA’s exploration missions to the Moon, and later to Mars. In current state of the art (SOA) human scale, in-space propulsion vehicles, cryogenic liquids can be stored for several hours. For the planned HLS mission architecture to close, cryogenic liquids must be stored [

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21 Aug 2024 20:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA’s DART Team Earns AIAA Space Systems Award for Pioneering Mission" NASA’s DART (Double​ Asteroid Redirection Test) mission continues to yield scientific discoveries and garner accolades for its groundbreaking achievements. The mission team was recently recognized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)with the 2024 Space Systems Award during this year’s AIAA ASCEND event, held July 29 to Aug. 2 in Las Vegas.​ The award, presented by the AIAA […] [August 21, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/dart/nasas-dart-team-earns-aiaa-space-systems-award-for-pioneering-mission/

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21 Aug 2024 19:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Talented Teams Tackle Toasty Planet" Exoplanets, look out! Two NASA-funded teams of amateur astronomers are tracking you with their backyard telescopes.  These two teams, called UNITE (UNISTELLAR Network Investigating TESS Exoplanets) and Exoplanet Watch, have combined forces to confirm a new planetary discovery—a toasty “warm Jupiter”.   “I pinch myself every day when I recall that I have made a meaningful scientific contribution to astronomy […] [August 21, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/talented-teams-tackle-toasty-planet/

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21 Aug 2024 17:51

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "August 2024 Supermoon Rises Near NASA Marshall" A super blue Moon rises over Huntsville, Alabama, home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Aug. 19. Visible through Wednesday, Aug. 21, the full Moon is both a supermoon and a Blue Moon. As the Moon reaches its closest approach to Earth, the Moon looks larger in the [

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21 Aug 2024 06:41

#NewImage from #Nasa: "" Forget X-ray vision — imagine what you could see with gamma-ray vision! The featured all-sky map shows what the universe looks like to NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Fermi sees light with energies about a billion times what the human eye can see, and the map combines 12 years of Fermi observations. The colors represent the brightness of the gamma-ray sources, with brighter sources appearing lighter in color. The prominent stripe across the middle is the central plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Most of the red and yellow dots scattered above and below the Milky Way’s plane are very distant galaxies, while most of those within the plane are nearby pulsars. The blue background that fills the image is the diffuse glow of gamma-rays from distant sources that are too dim to be detected individually. Some gamma-ray sources remain unidentified and topics of research — currently no one knows what they are. [August 21, 2024] https://apod.nasa.gov/image/2408/12YearMap_Fermi_1080.jpg

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20 Aug 2024 22:51

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Marshall Names Roger Baird Associate Director" Roger Baird has been selected as associate director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. In this role, Baird will lead execution and integration of the center

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20 Aug 2024 22:19

#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Tortoise Takes a Leisurely Stroll" Slow and steady wins the race for this gopher tortoise, ambling along the Launch Pad 39B beach road on NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Gopher tortoises are dry-land turtles that live in scrub, dry hammock, pine flatwood, coastal grassland and dune habitats. [August 20, 2024] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ksc-2014-2853orig.jpg

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20 Aug 2024 19:51

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Tyler Parsotan Takes a Long Look at the Transient Universe with NASA’s Swift" Through a nonlinear path to success, research astrophysicist Tyler Parsotan discovers transformational science using Swift’s observations.

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20 Aug 2024 19:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "FAQ: NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Return Status" Editor’s note: This article was updated Aug. 20, 2024, to reflect the latest information from NASA

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22 Aug 2024 23:26

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Into The Field With NASA: Valley Of Ten Thousand Smokes" To better understand Mars, NASA’s Goddard Instrument Field Team headed deep into the backcountry of Katmai National Park. [August 22, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/into-the-field-with-nasa-valley-of-ten-thousand-smokes/

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22 Aug 2024 21:51

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Leadership to Discuss NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test" NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and leadership will hold an internal Agency Test Flight Readiness Review on Saturday, Aug. 24, for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. About an hour later, NASA will host a live news conference at 1 p.m. EDT from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Watch the media event on NASA , NASA [

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22 Aug 2024 20:56

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Sunrise Begins" NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured the start of this orbital sunrise on Aug. 15, 2024, while aboard the International Space Station. Crew members aboard the orbital lab have produced hundreds of thousands of images of the land, oceans, and atmosphere

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22 Aug 2024 16:26

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Hubble Finds Structure in an Unstructured Galaxy" This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the nearby dwarf irregular galaxy Leo A, located some 2.6 million light-years away. The relatively open distribution of stars in this diminutive galaxy allows light from distant background galaxies to shine through. Astronomers study dwarf galaxies like Leo A because they are numerous and may offer clues to […] [August 22, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-finds-structure-in-an-unstructured-galaxy/

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22 Aug 2024 14:51

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Gateway: Energizing Exploration" Discover the cutting-edge technology powering Gateway, humanity's first lunar space station. [August 22, 2024] Read more here: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/gateway/gateway-energizing-exploration/

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21 Aug 2024 23:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "The Marshall Star for August 21, 2024" Hundreds Honored at Marshall, NASA Awards Ceremony NASA Chief Financial Officer Margaret Vo Schaus speaks to audience members and honorees Aug. 15 during the 2023 Agency/Center Honor Awards at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Activities Building 4316. In all, 332 Marshall team members were awarded this year for their outstanding work and dedication to [

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21 Aug 2024 21:14

#NewPhoto from #Nasa: "Rare Blue Supermoon 8/19/24" The Sturgeon Moon rises behind a replica Saturn V rocket at the U.S. Space

NASA News

21 Aug 2024 19:51

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Copernicus Trajectory Design and Optimization System" Copernicus, a generalized spacecraft trajectory design and optimization system, is capable of solving a wide range of trajectory problems such as planet or moon centered trajectories, libration point trajectories, planet-moon transfers and tours, and all types of interplanetary and asteroid/comet missions. Latest News Development The Copernicus Project started at the University of Texas at Austin [

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21 Aug 2024 18:26

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "How Students Learn to Fly NASA’s IXPE Spacecraft" The large wall monitor displaying a countdown shows 17 seconds when Amelia “Mia” De Herrera-Schnering tells her teammates “We have AOS,” meaning “acquisition of signal.” “Copy that, thank you,” Alexander Pichler replies. The two are now in contact with NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-Ray Polarimeter Explorer) spacecraft, transmitting science data from IXPE to a ground station […] [August 21, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/ixpe/how-students-learn-to-fly-nasas-ixpe-spacecraft/

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21 Aug 2024 17:26

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Hubble Peers Into the Center of a Star-forming Powerhouse" This view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope plunges into the center of spiral galaxy Messier 33 (M33), also known as the Triangulum Galaxy.  Located within the triangle-shaped constellation Triangulum and about half the size of our Milky Way galaxy, M33 is the third-largest member of our Local Group of galaxies after the Andromeda galaxy (M31) […] [August 21, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-peers-into-the-center-of-a-star-forming-powerhouse/

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21 Aug 2024 00:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "NASA Awards 15 Grants to Support Open-Source Science" NASA awarded $1.4 million to 15 teams developing new technologies that advance and streamline the open sharing of scientific information. High Priority Open-Source Science (HPOSS) awards fund projects that aim to increase the accessibility, inclusivity, or reproducibility of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) research. Projects include open-source tools, software, frameworks, data formats, or libraries that […] [August 20, 2024] Read more here: https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/funding-winners-open-source/

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20 Aug 2024 22:51

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "2025 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition" The agriculture industry faces several challenges, including limited resources and growing demands to reduce agriculture’s environmental impact while increasing its climate resilience. NASA Aeronautics is dedicated to expanding its efforts to assist commercial, industry, and government partners in advancing aviation systems that could modernize capabilities in agriculture. In NASA

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20 Aug 2024 21:46

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Tortoise Takes a Leisurely Stroll" A NASA photographer captured this gopher tortoise walking on the Launch Pad 39B beach road at NASA

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20 Aug 2024 19:21

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "Danish Instrument Helps NASA’s Juno Spacecraft See Radiation" Using cameras designed for navigation, scientists count ‘fireflies’ to determine the amount of radiation the spacecraft receives during each orbit of Jupiter. Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission have developed the first complete 3D radiation map of the Jupiter system. Along with characterizing the intensity of the high-energy particles near the orbit of the icy moon [

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20 Aug 2024 18:51

#BreakingNews from #Nasa: "55 Years Ago: Apollo 11 Astronauts End Quarantine, Feted from Coast to Coast" On Aug. 10, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin completed their 21-day quarantine after returning from the Moon. The historic nature of their mission resulted in a very busy postflight schedule for Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin, starting with celebrations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Houston. [