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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA is collaborating with the wildfire community to provide tools for some of the most challenging aspects of firefighting – particularly aerial nighttime operations.   In the future, agencies could more efficiently use drones, both remotely piloted and fully autonomous, to help fight wildfires. NASA recently tested technologies with teams acrossContinue reading “NASA Flight Tests Wildland Fire Tech Ahead of Demo”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A crane lowers the 112-foot-wide (34-meter-wide) steel framework for the Deep Space Station 23 (DSS-23) reflector dish into position on Dec. 18, 2024, at the Deep Space Network’s (DSN) Goldstone Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California. Once online in 2026, DSS-23 will be the fifth of six new beam waveguideContinue reading “Building an Antenna”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Shaped like a megaphone, the upcoming mission will map the entire sky in infrared light to answer big questions about the universe. Expected to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory will provide astronomers with a big-picture view ofContinue reading “6 Things to Know About SPHEREx, NASA’s Newest Space Telescope”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY With more than 17 years of experience at NASA, Lindsai Bland has been an integral part of the agency, contributing to multiple Earth observing system missions at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Now, Bland ensures the agency’s communications and navigation resources meet overall needs and requirements asContinue reading “Meet the Space Ops Team: Lindsai Bland”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 million light-years away in the constellation Gemini. Hubble captured this image roughly two months after a supernova named SN 2022aajn was discovered. The supernova is visible as a blue dot at the center ofContinue reading “Hubble Spots a Supernova”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025 We’re planning sols 4439 and 4440 on the first day of the Lunar New Year here on Earth, and I’m the Geology/Mineralogy Science Theme Lead for today. The new year is a time for all kinds of abundance and good luck, and weContinue reading “Sols 4439-4440: A Lunar New Year on Mars”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory rests horizontally in this April 2024 image taken at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado. This orientation shows the observatory’s three layers of photon shields – the metallic concentric cones. Over a two-year planned mission,Continue reading “SPHEREx’s Concentric Cones”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST on Tuesday, Feb. 4, to share information about the agency’s upcoming PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which is targeted to launch no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27. The agency’s PUNCH mission is a constellation of fourContinue reading “NASA Invites Media to Discuss PUNCH Mission to Study Solar Wind”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and its international partners have approved the crew for Axiom Space’s fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, launching from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than spring 2025. Peggy Whitson, former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space, will commandContinue reading “NASA, Partners to Welcome Fourth Axiom Space Mission to Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Did you know that NASA conducts ground-breaking research in space on materials like metals, foams, and crystals? This research could lead to next-generation technology that both enables deep-space exploration and benefits humanity.   Here are six studies scientists have conducted on the International Space Station that could have profound implications forContinue reading “6 NASA Experiments on Materials, Benefitting Space and Earth”