Tag Archives: Nasa

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Spot this green-blue ice giant mid-November, between the gas giant Jupiter, and the seven sisters of the Pleiades!

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Pumpkin carving reaches new heights during the annual competition, where spacecraft-building engineers mix ingenuity and creativity for some spectacular results. When mechanical engineers accustomed to building one-of-a-kind spacecraft turn that focus to pumpkins, the results can be hauntingly good. The annual Halloween pumpkin-carving contest at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory inContinue reading “JPL Engineers Put Their Skills to the Test With Halloween Pumpkins”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY As of spring 2023, NASA has invested greater than $60M in more than twenty In Space Production Applications (InSPA) awards to U.S. entities seeking to demonstrate the production of advanced materials and products on the International Space Station.  These InSPA awards help the selected companies raise the technological readiness levelContinue reading “Previous NASA Awards for In Space Production Applications”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA has awarded the Kennedy Operational and Institutional Support (KOIS) contract to Chiricahua-Logical Joint Venture of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide services at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. KOIS is an Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity, Level of Effort contract that includes a one-month phase-in period beginning Nov. 1, 2023, followedContinue reading “NASA Kennedy Awards Operational, Institutional Support Contract”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY Although no ghouls or goblins or trick-or-treaters come knocking at the International Space Station’s front hatch, crew members aboard the orbiting facility still like to get in the Halloween spirit. Whether individually or as an entire crew, they dress up in sometimes spooky, sometimes scary, but always creative costumes, oftenContinue reading “Halloween on the International Space Station”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA knows it takes a village to make commercial manufacturing in space a reality. NASA is collaborating with experts from industry, academia and other U.S. Government agencies on the technologies in play with the InSPA portfolio.  By joining forces with these experts, NASA can better support its commercial partners, acceleratingContinue reading “InSPA Inter-Agency Collaboration Goals”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA’s In Space Production Applications (InSPA) implementation strategy consists of a multi-phase award process to demonstrate proof-of-concept, advance to high production quality, and ultimately to achieve scalability on a commercial low Earth orbit (LEO) destination or platform. InSPA seeks to identify awardees who propose promising manufacturing efforts in microgravity thatContinue reading “NASA Implementation Strategy for In Space Production Applications”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY After four decades of microgravity research, NASA and the ISS National Lab have identified numerous applications that are within reach for NASA’s In Space Production Applications (InSPA) portfolio. Uniform crystals, semiconductors, specialized glass and optical fibers are just a few of the many advanced materials that can benefit from productionContinue reading “In Space Production: Applications Within Reach”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY NASA supports In Space Production Applications (InSPA) awards to help the selected companies raise the technological readiness level of their products and move them to market, propelling U.S. industry toward the development of a sustainable, scalable, and profitable non-NASA demand for services and products in low-Earth orbit. These commercialization awards provideContinue reading “What is In Space Production Applications?”

official news from : https://bit.ly/2QkyIbY The James Webb Space Telescope truly explores the unknown, displaying stunning images of previously unseen corners of the universe only possible because of the telescope’s 21-foot segmented mirror that unfurled and assembled itself in space. Decades of testing went into the materials, design, and processes needed to develop the largestContinue reading “NASA’s Webb Telescope Improves Simulation Software”