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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A team of NASA-sponsored scientists and engineers has developed a novel approach to observing high-energy particles in the near-Earth space environment, incorporating miniaturized sensors into a compact, multi-view particle detection instrument unlike any before it. Built for NASA’s Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) CubeSat mission, the innovative instrument (also calledContinue reading “A New Compact Instrument Enables High-Fidelity Measurements of Energetic Particles on CubeSats”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Differences in the underlying bedrock and how rivers distribute sediment make the coastlines west of Portland look unlike those northeast of the city.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation mission to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Monday, Aug. 3, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Mission leadership will provide an overview of NASA’s SpaceX Crew‑13 mission at 12 p.m. EDT. Next,Continue reading “NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-13 Mission to Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY An aircraft powered by a megawatt-class hybrid-electric engine developed in collaboration with NASA and built by GE Aerospace, demonstrated flight of an innovation that can inform new generations of fuel-saving aircraft power systems. Mounted to a Saab 340B aircraft, the engine flew at Farnborough International Air Show in the UnitedContinue reading “NASA, GE Aerospace Work Enables Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstration”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking 1 and 2 landers made the first successful landings on Mars, opening a new era in planetary exploration. Behind that achievement was a team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, whose steady leadership and technical expertise helped turn an ambitious idea into aContinue reading “From Hampton to Mars: How NASA Langley Helped Land on the Red Planet”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY “Touchdown, we have touchdown!” At 5:12 a.m. PDT, July 20, 1976, mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers as they learned that the Viking 1 lander had survived its descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. Forty minutes later, the lander’s first image began to appear on theirContinue reading “Our First View of the Surface of Mars”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The hills and basins of Seattle, Washington, have been sculpted by glaciers and modified by humans.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA researchers recently put a new wing design, appearing long and thin with a lightweight structural design, through a series of grueling tests to find its structural limits. What they found left them encouraged about the wing’s potential, even when they pushed it past its intended limits. The 15-foot StructuralContinue reading “NASA Pushes New Wing Design to Find Structural Limits”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Description This composite of images taken by NASA’s Psyche mission shows the crescent of Mars grow as the spacecraft approached the planet for a gravity assist from May 2 to May 15, 2026. The series begins with the smallest crescent at the center of the of the image as Mars is farthestContinue reading “The Growing Crescent of Mars as NASA’s Psyche Mission Approaches”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In April 2026, NASA’s Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer (OCHMO) initiated a working group to review updated VTE case information, additional data gathered revealing altered blood flow status within a cohort of astronauts, and discuss progress of research and clinical activities intended to mitigate the risk ofContinue reading “Establishing a VTE Risk Score for Astronauts Algorithm”