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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Why is landing on Mars so difficult? Learn more about the challenges with a special late-month edition of Night Sky Notes!

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In honor of the members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery for the benefit all, the agency hosted its annual Day of Remembrance Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. Traditionally held on the fourth Thursday in January each year, NASA Day ofContinue reading “NASA’s Day of Remembrance: Honoring Fallen Heroes”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting 12:29 p.m. EST on Monday, Jan. 29, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. Filled with more than 7,800 pounds of supplies, the Cygnus cargo spacecraft, carried atop the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, willContinue reading “Overview for NASA’s Northrop Grumman 20th Commercial Resupply Mission”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Family members of fallen astronauts Kathie Scobee Fulgham, Lowell Grissom, Sheryl Chaffee, and Karen Bassett Stevenson place a wreath at the Space Mirror Memorial at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, during the agency’s Day of Remembrance. The annual tradition pays tribute toContinue reading “Kennedy Honors Fallen During Day of Remembrance”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, issued its 2023 annual report Thursday examining the agency’s safety performance, accomplishments, and challenges over the past year.  The report highlights 2023 activities and observations on NASA’s: In 2023, NASA continued to make meaningful progressContinue reading “NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Releases 2023 Annual Report”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than planned. While the helicopter remains upright and in communication with ground controllers, imagery of its Jan. 18 flight sent to Earth this week indicates one or more ofContinue reading “After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY One of the galaxies from a galactic group known as Arp 295 is visible in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, along with part of the faint 250,000-light-year-long bridge of stars and gas that stretches between two of the galaxies. The galaxies have passed close enough together that theirContinue reading “Hubble Captures a Faint Bridge of Stars”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY In late October, two research helicopters from the manufacturer Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, made a dozen test flights over Long Island Sound, Connecticut taking care to avoid other aircraft in the area around them. Except the ordinary-looking helicopters were flying autonomously – guided by NASA-designed software – and thoseContinue reading “NASA Autonomous Flight Software Successfully Used in Air Taxi Stand-Ins”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed the smallest exoplanet where water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere. At only approximately twice Earth’s diameter, the planet GJ 9827d could be an example of potential planets with water-rich atmospheres elsewhere in our galaxy. “This would be the first time thatContinue reading “NASA’s Hubble Finds Water Vapor in Small Exoplanet’s Atmosphere”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The first space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves has passed a major review and will proceed to the construction of flight hardware. On Jan. 25, ESA (European Space Agency), announced the formal adoption of LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, to its mission lineup, with launch slated for theContinue reading “NASA Collaborating on European-led Gravitational Wave Observatory in Space”