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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) instituted the Entrepreneurs Challenge to identify innovative ideas and technologies from small business start-ups with the potential to advance the agency’s science goals. Geolabe—a prize winner in the latest Entrepreneurs Challenge—has developed a way to use artificial intelligence to identify global methane emissions. MethaneContinue reading “Entrepreneurs Challenge Prize Winner Uses Artificial Intelligence to Identify Methane Emissions”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the dwarf irregular galaxy UGC 4879 or VV124. As this image illustrates, Hubble’s high resolution can detect individual stars, even in the densest parts of the galaxy. This allows astronomers to better determine the galaxy’s distance, and the composition and age of itsContinue reading “Hubble Examines a Possible Relic”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Moon of August 30-31, 2023, is a full moon, a supermoon, and a blue moon. Here’s what it all means.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Solicitation Number: NNH16ZCQ001K-Appendix-R August 16, 2024 – Draft Solicitation Released Solicitation Overview The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) intends to release a solicitation under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (Next STEP-2) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to seek industry-led concept definition and maturation studies that address lunar surfaceContinue reading “NextSTEP R: Lunar Logistics and Mobility Studies”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A pair of CubeSats from NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator, or PTD, series lifted off on SpaceX’s Transporter-11 rideshare mission at 11:56 a.m. PDT Friday, August 16, from Vandenburg Space Force Base in California. The two small satellites, PTD-4 and PTD-R, will help advance NASA’s efforts to validate novel technologies andContinue reading “NASA CubeSats Launch as Commercial Rideshares”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA works every day to improve air travel – and has been doing so since its creation decades ago. On National Aviation Day, NASA and all fans of aviation get the chance to celebrate the innovative research and development the agency has produced to improve capability and safety in flight.Continue reading “NASA Celebrates Ames’s Legacy of Research on National Aviation Day”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has awarded a total of $1.25 million to three U.S. teams in the third and final round of the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge. The teams delivered novel food production technologies that could provide long-duration human space exploration missions with safe, nutritious, and tasty food. The competitors’ technologies addressContinue reading “NASA Awards $1.25 Million to Three Teams at Deep Space Food Finale”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Locations designed as a maintenance work area and an exercise area on the International Space Station are commonly used by crew members for stowage and body maintenance activities, respectively. These differences between intended and actual use demonstrate that systematic observation of material culture can help researchers identify how astronauts adapt to lifeContinue reading “Station Science Top News: August 16, 2024”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY An OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule training model parachutes down in this image from Aug. 30, 2023. This drop test was part of NASA’s preparations for the return of samples from the asteroid Bennu on Sept. 24, 2023. OSIRIS-REx was the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid.Continue reading “Revisiting OSIRIS-REx”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 16, 2024 It’s time to move on from our “Kings Canyon” drill site, so today’s plan focused on our usual tidy up routine after a drill campaign. First we need to dump out any material in the drill chambers, in an action called “RAGE” –Continue reading “Sols 4277-4279: Getting Ready To Say Goodbye to the King!”