Category: Missions
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NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan Confirmed
NASA has confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn’s organic-rich moon Titan. The decision allows the mission to progress to completion of final design, followed by the construction and testing of the entire spacecraft and science instruments. “Dragonfly is a…
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NASA’s GUSTO Prepares to Map Space Between the Stars
Editor’s Note: The GUSTO mission successfully launched on a scientific balloon from Antarctica Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m. local time (Dec. 31, 1:30 a.m EST). The balloon is floating 128,000 feet above Earth’s surface and can be tracked in real-time on…
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Deploying and Demonstrating Navigation Aids on the Lunar Surface
NASA is developing lunar navigation beacons to be deployed on spacecraft or the lunar surface to aid in localization and help future space vehicles determine position, velocity, and time to high accuracy.
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2022 in Review: Highlights from NASA in Silicon Valley
With 2023 on the horizon, join us as we look back at the highlights of 2022 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. 1. We are Artemis. NASA’s historic flight mission to the Moon, Artemis I, is complete!…
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Unlocking the Sun’s X-rays
PROJECT Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) SNAPSHOT NASA has developed a new type of instrument that can provide key information to predict and understand solar flares. X-ray spectroscopy provides unique capabilities for answering fundamental questions in solar physics and…
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How NASA Will Protect Astronauts From Space Radiation at the Moon
August 1972, as NASA scientist Ian Richardson remembers it, was hot. In Surrey, England, where he grew up, the fields were brown and dry, and people tried to stay indoors — out of the Sun, televisions on. But for several…
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Why Bennu? 10 Reasons
Launched on Sept. 8, 2016, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, spacecraft traveled to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu to collect a sample of rocks and dust from its surface. This mission put Bennu at…
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Promising Worlds Found Around Nearby Ultra-cool Dwarf Star
Astronomers using the TRAPPIST telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory have discovered three planets with sizes and temperatures similar to those of Venus and Earth, orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth.
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NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Celebrates Hubble Space Telescope’s 25th Anniversary
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope launched aboard space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The technological marvel is celebrating 25 years in orbit above Earth.
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Natural Disasters and NASA—What Is The Agency’s Role? An Interview with Michael Goodman
Working with basic researchers, engineers, and applied scientists–and a dozen satellite sensors—Michael Goodman helps assemble and coordinate NASA’s response to natural disasters and hazards.