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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Demonstration Motor-1 (DM-1) is the first full-scale ground test of the evolved five-segment solid rocket motor of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The event will take place in Promontory, Utah, and will be used as an opportunity to test several upgrades made from the current solid rocket boosters. EachContinue reading “NASA’s SLS Solid Rocket Boosters: What is DM-1?”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The NASA Science Activation program’s Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pathways (NESSP) team has successfully concluded the 2024–2025 Artemis ROADS III National Challenge, an educational competition that brought real NASA mission objectives to student teams (and reached more than 1,500 learners) across the country. From December 2024 through May 2025,Continue reading “Mission Accomplished! Artemis ROADS III National Challenge Competitors Celebrate their Achievements”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Recent detections of clay-bearing bedrock on Jezero’s crater rim have the Perseverance Science Team excited and eager to sample. Written by Alex Jones, Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College London  Since finishing its exploration of spherule-rich stratigraphy at Witch Hazel Hill, Perseverance has been exploring the Krokodillen plateau, a relatively low-lyingContinue reading “Clay Minerals From Mars’ Most Ancient Past?”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The rover recently drilled a sample from a new region with features that could reveal whether Mars’ subsurface once provided an environment suitable for life. New images from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only from orbit. The images andContinue reading “NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Starts Unpacking Boxwork Formations”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Arsia Mons, one of the Red Planet’s largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice clouds in this image captured by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on May 2, 2025. Odyssey used a camera called the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) to capture this view while studying the MartianContinue reading “A Martian Volcano in the Mist”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Some career changes involve small shifts. But for one NASA engineering intern, the leap was much bigger –moving from under the hood of a car to helping air taxis take to the skies. Saré Culbertson spent more than a decade in the auto industry and had been working as aContinue reading “NASA Intern Took Career from Car Engines to Cockpits”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, NASA nurtures visionary yet credible concepts that could one day “change the possible” in aerospace, while engaging America’s innovators and entrepreneurs as partners in the journey.   These concepts span various disciplines and aim to advance capabilities such as finding resources on distantContinue reading “NASA Fosters Innovative, Far-Out Tech for the Future of Aerospace”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 20001 on June 20, at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25 engines fire during a launch of an SLSContinue reading “NASA Tests New RS-25 Engine”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As branch chief of the Hypervelocity Impact and Orbital Debris Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Dr. Heather Cowardin leads a team tasked with a critical mission: characterizing and mitigating orbital debris—space junk that poses a growing risk to satellites, spacecraft, and human spaceflight.  Long before Cowardin wasContinue reading “Heather Cowardin Safeguards the Future of Space Exploration  “

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Written by Deborah Padgett, OPGS Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Friday, June 20, 2025 During the plan covering Sols 4575-4576, Curiosity continued our investigation of mysterious boxwork structures on the shoulders of Mount Sharp. After a successful 56-meter drive (about 184 feet), Curiosity is nowContinue reading “Curiosity Blog, Sols 4577-4579: Watch the Skies”