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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Introduction The 2024 NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Science Team Meeting (STM) took place from April 2–4, 2024 at the Marriott Washingtonian Center in Gaithersburg, MD. During the meeting, 75 people attended in-person. Represented among the attendees were LCLUC project investigators and collaborators, NASA Headquarters (HQ) program managers, andContinue reading “Summary of the 2024 NASA LCLUC Science Team Meeting”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On Jan. 9, 1990, space shuttle Columbia took off on its ninth flight, STS-32, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Its five-person crew of Commander Daniel Brandenstein, Pilot James Wetherbee, and Mission Specialists Bonnie Dunbar, Marsha Ivins, and David Low flew a then record-breaking 11-day mission to deployContinue reading “35 Years Ago: STS-32 Returns the Long Duration Exposure Facility”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY What do the X-15 and the space shuttles have in common? Information from the rocket plane and the spacecraft, as well as many experimental aircraft, were tracked from a pedestal and telemetry dish during key eras in flight history at or near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California.Continue reading “Helicopter Removes Artifact from NASA Armstrong Rooftop”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY One of the most challenging tasks in remote sensing from space is achieving required instrument calibration accuracy on-orbit. The Moon is considered to be an excellent exoatmospheric calibration source. However, the current accuracy of the Moon as an absolute reference is limited to 5 – 10%, and this level ofContinue reading “Achieving Instrument High Accuracy In-Orbit”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The future of research and technology at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is expanding Wednesday, as Kennedy’s center director and charter members in the Florida University Space Research Consortium signed a memorandum of understanding in research and development to assist with missions and contribute to NASA’s Moon to MarsContinue reading “NASA’s Kennedy Marks New Chapter for Florida Space Industry”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A look back at a few Mars 2020 mission highlights of 2024   Perseverance’s past year operating on the surface of Mars was filled with some of the mission’s highest highs, but also some of its greatest challenges. True to its name and its reputation as a mission that overcomesContinue reading “A Rover Retrospective: Turning Trials to Triumphs in 2024”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has selected Columbus Technologies and Services Inc. of El Segundo, California, to provide electrical and electronic engineering support to the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Electrical Systems Engineering Services IV is a cost-plus-award-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum estimated value of $1.1 billion. The baseContinue reading “NASA Selects Electrical Systems Engineering Services Contractor”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Onboard computers are critical to space exploration, aiding nearly every spacecraft function from propulsion and navigation systems to life support technology, science data retrieval and analysis, communications, and reentry. But computers in space are susceptible to ionizing solar and cosmic radiation. Just one high-energy particle can trigger a so-called “singleContinue reading “NASA to Test Solution for Radiation-Tolerant Computing in Space”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Supporting the International Space Station is an around-the-clock responsibility for NASA and its international partners. This means there is always a team of flight operations and payload personnel working with the orbiting laboratory’s crew – including overnight, on weekends, and during the holidays. At Johnson Space Center’s Mission Control CenterContinue reading “Houston, We Have the Holiday Cookies”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Defeating dust may be a small concern for most people on Earth, but for astronauts and spacecraft destined for the Moon or Mars, it is a significant hazard that must be mitigated. That’s why researchers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are seeking innovative ways to use the ElectrodynamicContinue reading “Electrodynamic Dust Shield Heading to Moon on Firefly Lander”