official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024 The rover is on its way from the Tungsten Hills site to the next priority site for Gediz Vallis channel exploration, in which we plan to get in close enough for arm science to one of the numerous large dark-toned “float” blocks inContinue reading “Sols 4302-4303: West Side of Upper Gediz Vallis, From Tungsten Hills to the Next Rocky Waypoint”
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NASA’s Lunar Challenge Participants to Showcase Innovations During Awards
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA‘s Watts on the Moon Challenge, designed to advance the nation’s lunar exploration goals under the Artemis campaign by challenging United States innovators to develop breakthrough power transmission and energy storage technologies that could enable long-duration Moon missions, concludes on Friday, Sept. 20, at the Great Lakes Science Center inContinue reading “NASA’s Lunar Challenge Participants to Showcase Innovations During Awards”
NASA’s Artemis II Crew Uses Iceland Terrain for Lunar Training
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY At first glance, it seems like a scene from an excursion on the Moon’s surface…except the people are in hiking gear, not spacesuits.
NASA Airport Throughput Prediction Challenge
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Digital Information Platform (DIP) Sub-Project of Air Traffic Management – eXploration (ATM-X) is seeking to make available in the National Airspace System a variety of live data feeds and services built on that data. The goal is to allow external partners to build advanced, data-driven services using this data,Continue reading “NASA Airport Throughput Prediction Challenge”
Hubble Examines a Spiral Star Factory
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo named NGC 5668. It is relatively near to us at 90 million light-years from Earth and quite accessible for astronomers to study with both space- and ground-based telescopes. At first glance, it doesn’t seem like aContinue reading “Hubble Examines a Spiral Star Factory”
Testing Europa Clipper’s Solar Arrays
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY On Aug. 21, 2024, engineers and technicians deployed and tested NASA’s Europa Clipper giant solar arrays. Each array measures about 46.5 feet (14.2 meters) long and about 13.5 feet (4.1 meters) high. Europa Clipper is scheduled to launch Oct. 10, 2024, on the first mission to conduct a detailed scienceContinue reading “Testing Europa Clipper’s Solar Arrays”
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 to Conduct Space Station Research
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are headed to the International Space Station for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission in September. Once on station, these crew members will support scientific investigations that include studies of blood clotting, effects of moisture on plants grown in space, and visionContinue reading “NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 to Conduct Space Station Research”
Printed Engines Propel the Next Industrial Revolution
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Efforts to 3D print engines produce significant savings in rocketry and beyond
NASA to Develop Lunar Time Standard for Exploration Initiatives
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations to establish a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) following a policy directive from the White House in April.
NASA Moon to Mars Architecture Art Challenge
official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA wants you to visualize the future of space exploration! This art challenge is looking for creative, artistic images to represent NASA’s Moon to Mars Architecture, the agency’s roadmap for crewed exploration of deep space. With NASA’s Moon to Mars Objectives in hand, the agency is developing an architecture for crewed explorationContinue reading “NASA Moon to Mars Architecture Art Challenge”