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official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Science in Space January 2024 Crew members on the International Space Station have a lot of company – millions of bacteria and other microbes. The human body contains 10 times more microbes than human cells, and bacteria and fungi grow in and on just about everything around us on Earth.Continue reading “Monitoring Microorganisms”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Overview As NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) constellation approaches retirement, partnerships with commercial industry will play a critical role in the development of future space communications and navigation architecture. Over the next decade, NASA missions will transition towards adopting commercial space-based relay services to fulfil their near-Earth communicationsContinue reading “Wideband Technology”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Transitioning cutting-edge research from the lab to life-changing technology in the market is no easy feat and the cost of failure is high, especially for small businesses. One of the ways NASA helps is through its Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program, which supports small businesses, and their research institutionContinue reading “NASA Invests in Small Business Tech to Advance Alternative Fuels, More”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA continued a critical test series for future flights of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in support of the Artemis campaign on Jan. 17 with a full-duration hot fire of the RS-25 engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.Continue reading “NASA Continues Artemis Moon Rocket Engine Tests with 1st Hot Fire of 2024”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY ‘Be King’: Team Redstone Invites All to Honor Civil Rights Icon’s Legacy By Jessica Barnett Several accomplished speakers took to the stage Jan. 11 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to share how Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy helped shape their lives. The event was hosted by Marshall’sContinue reading “The Marshall Star for January 17, 2024”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA will host a pair of news conferences Thursday, Jan. 25, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to highlight upcoming crew rotation missions to the International Space Station. A mission overview news conference will begin at 1 p.m. EST and cover NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the microgravityContinue reading “NASA Sets Briefings for Crew-8, International Space Station Missions”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite sensor on the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, over western Canada at 3:23 a.m. MST (5:23 a.m. EST) on November 5, 2023. Auroras are colorful ribbons of light appearing in night skies, incited by a strong geomagneticContinue reading “An Aurora in Another Light”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Greater than the sum of its parts: NASA tests the capability of a system that includes simple robots, structural building blocks, and smart algorithms to build functional, high-performance large-scale structures, ultimately enabling autonomous deep-space infrastructure.

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY This month marks the 20th anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity’s landing on Mars, part of a mission whose legacy will extend far into the future. In January 2004, twin NASA rovers named Spirit and Opportunity touched down on opposite sides of Mars, kicking off a new era of interplanetary roboticContinue reading “20 Years After Landing: How NASA’s Twin Rovers Changed Mars Science”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY A new, comprehensive analysis of satellite data finds that majority of glaciers on the landmass have retreated significantly. The Greenland Ice Sheet has shed about one-fifth more ice mass in the past four decades than previously estimated, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California reported in a newContinue reading “NASA Study: More Greenland Ice Lost Than Previously Estimated”