official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY With a look back at 2024, NASA is celebrating its many innovative and inspiring accomplishments this year including for the first time, landing new science and technology on the Moon with an American company, pushing the boundaries of exploration by launching a new mission to study Jupiter’s icy moon Europa;Continue reading “NASA Accelerates Space Exploration, Earth Science for All in 2024”
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NASA Awards Operations, Services, Maintenance, and Infrastructure Contract
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has selected Nova Space Solutions, LLC of Anchorage, Alaska, to provide operations, services, maintenance, and infrastructure support for NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The Combined Operations, Services, Maintenance, and Infrastructure Contract is a cost-plus-incentive-fee, firm-fixed-price, and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantityContinue reading “NASA Awards Operations, Services, Maintenance, and Infrastructure Contract”
Lunar Autonomy Challenge: Selected Teams
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Congratulations to the selected teams and their schools who will participate in the Lunar Autonomy Challenge! 31 teams were selected for the qualifying round, engaging 229 students from colleges and universities in 15 states. Teams will now move on to a Qualifying Round where they will virtually explore and map the lunar surface using a digital twin ofContinue reading “Lunar Autonomy Challenge: Selected Teams”
NASA JPL Unveils the Dr. Edward Stone Exploration Trail
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A series of plaques stretching through the heart of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers highlights of the space explorer’s career and the Voyager mission he led. Family members, colleagues, and local dignitaries gathered on Friday, Dec. 6, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California for the unveiling ofContinue reading “NASA JPL Unveils the Dr. Edward Stone Exploration Trail”
Orange Lava, Blue Lagoon
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Lava encroaches on the Blue Lagoon, a popular tourist destination in Iceland, in this Nov. 24, 2024, Landsat 9 image overlaid with an infrared signal. The infrared signal helps distinguish the lava’s heat signature. A volcanic fissure burst open on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula four days prior, heralded by a series ofContinue reading “Orange Lava, Blue Lagoon”
La NASA identifica causa de pérdida de material del escudo térmico de Orion de Artemis I
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Read this story in English here. Tras extensos análisis y pruebas, la NASA ha identificado la causa técnica de la pérdida imprevista de material carbonizado en el escudo térmico de la nave espacial Orion de Artemis I. Los ingenieros determinaron que, cuando Orion regresaba de su misión sin tripulación alrededorContinue reading “La NASA identifica causa de pérdida de material del escudo térmico de Orion de Artemis I”
NASA, USAID Launch SERVIR Central American Hub
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY SERVIR, NASA’s flagship partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), launched a new regional center, or hub, in Central America on Dec. 3. The new hub is in partnership with the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center in Turrialba, Costa Rica, and is supported by the USAIDContinue reading “NASA, USAID Launch SERVIR Central American Hub”
NASA’s IXPE Details Shapes of Structures at Newly Discovered Black Hole
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black hole – specifically, the disk of material swirling around it, and the shifting plasma region called the corona. The stellar-mass black hole, part of the binary system Swift J1727.8-1613, was discoveredContinue reading “NASA’s IXPE Details Shapes of Structures at Newly Discovered Black Hole”
NASA’s ASTRO CAMP – and its Impact – Continues to Grow in FY2024
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY When it comes to NASA’s ASTRO CAMP®, the numbers – and impact – of the initiative to help students across the nation and world learn about NASA and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) just continue to grow and grow and grow. As in recent years, the NASA ASTRO CAMP® CommunityContinue reading “NASA’s ASTRO CAMP – and its Impact – Continues to Grow in FY2024”
Hubble Spots a Spiral in the Celestial River
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is NGC 1637, a spiral galaxy located 38 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus, the River. This image comes from an observing program dedicated to studying star formation in nearby galaxies. Stars form in cold, dusty gas clouds thatContinue reading “Hubble Spots a Spiral in the Celestial River”