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NASA’s Coral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) to begin detailed survey of...
Written by Alan Buis NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA – A new three-year NASA field expedition gets underway this year that will use advanced instruments on airplanes and in the water to...
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NASA works to bring back Supersonic Travel
Written by J.D. Harrington NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. – The return of supersonic passenger air travel is one step closer to reality with NASA’s award of a contract for the preliminary design of...
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NASA to evaluate Crew Safety in Orion Spacecraft using Test Dummies
Written by Sasha Ellis NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA – Engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, are preparing for a series of water-impact tests to evaluate the...
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NASA tests Orion Capsule with Crash Test Dummies
Written by Sasha Ellis NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA – Upon re-entry from a deep space mission, NASA’s next generation spacecraft, more commonly known as Orion, will descend under its three...
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NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission moves forward with Robotic Design and...
Written by DC Agle NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA – Following a key program review, NASA approved the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) to proceed to the next phase of design and...
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NASA’s Terra Satellite captured images of Blue Cut Fire in California
Written by Alan Buis NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA – On August 16th, 2016, at around 10:30am, a brush fire ignited in the Cajon Pass east of Los Angeles, just to the west of Interstate...
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NASA’s Game Changing Development Program looks for idea for putting...
Written by Joe Atkinson NASA’s Langley Research Center Hampton, VA – In the 2017 Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge, NASA is engaging university-level students in its...
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NASA’s robot ISAAC to create Composite Materials in Climate-Controlled Clean...
Written by Sam McDonald NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA – The celebrated robot ISAAC now has a hermetically sealed workshop where it’s free to follow its prime directive: discovering bold new...
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NASA tests news Air Traffic Management Technology
Written by Jim Banke NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Hampton, VA – Commercial airline pilots who as children played “Follow the Leader” will have no problem with a new air traffic...
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NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) Spacecraft sees Noctilucent...
Written by Lina Tran NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD – Data from NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM, spacecraft shows the sky over Antarctica is glowing electric blue due...
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NASA’s BIG Idea Challenge Finalists develop ideas for Spacecraft Assembly in...
Written by Joe Atkinson NASA’s Langley Research Center Hampton, VA – It’s a complex and daunting thing, dreaming up ways to assemble spacecraft in space. But don’t tell that to a few whip-smart college...
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NASA to send Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III) to...
Written by Eric Gillard NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA – Brooke Thornton has devoted eight years to a project that aims to check on the atmospheric health of the Earth. Needless to say, when...
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NASA explores using Nanotechnology for Aerospace Applications
NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. – Mastering the intricacies of controlling matter at the nanoscale level is part of a revolutionary quest to apply nanotechnology to benefit industrial processes. A...
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NASA’s Convective Processes Experiment (CPEX) will try to improve Weather...
Written by Carol Rasmussen NASA’s Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – A NASA-funded field campaign getting underway in Florida on May 25th has a real shot at improving meteorologists’ ability to...
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NASA research shows Smoke from Wildfires can Impact Climate more than...
Written by Joe Atkinson NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA – The 2017 wildfire season is well underway in the United States with thousands of acres scorched already in Georgia and Florida alone,...
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NASA Developing Technology to Land on other Planets with rough Terrain
Written by Andrew Good NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA – Canyons, craters and cracked ice fields on other worlds might be hiding exciting scientific discoveries. But how do we get...
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NASA’s CERES Flight Model 6 instrument to help study Earth’s Energy Budget
Written by Eric Gillard NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA – The Earth and its interconnected systems have always been a fascination for Norman Loeb. “It’s quite an interesting thing when you...
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NASA’s Orion spacecraft to undergo design test of Launch Abort System in...
NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. – NASA’s Orion spacecraft is scheduled to undergo a design test in April 2019 of the capsule’s launch abort system (LAS), which is a rocket-powered tower on top of...
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NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover Mission tests Parachute Opening at Supersonic Speed
Written by Dwayne Brown / Laurie Cantillo NASA Headquarters Washington, D.C. – Landing on Mars is difficult and not always successful. Well-designed advance testing helps. An ambitious NASA Mars rover...
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NASA tests Exo Brake Parachute Device for returning Small Spacecraft to Earth
Written by Kimberly Minafra NASA’ Ames Research Center Silicon Valley, CA – NASA launched the Technology Educational Satellite, or TechEdSat-6, to the International Space Station on Orbital ATK’s...
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