Notícias NASA

13th NASA Space Exploration and Space Weather Workshop

David McKenzie (ST10), Sabrina Savage, and Robert Loper (ST13) participated in the 13th NASA Space Exploration and Space Weather Workshop (https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/674/m2m/workshop/), hosted by the Moon to Mars Space Weather Analysis Office, at NASA GSFC, 29-30 April. David McKenzie presented an…

REDSoX Holds Successful PDR at MIT

On 3/25/24, Astrophysics Branch scientist, Stephen Bongiorno, presented at the Rocket Experiment Demonstration of a Soft X-ray (REDSoX) Polarimeter preliminary design review at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). REDSoX is a sounding rocket instrument, led by MIT, that plans…

Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) General Observer Proposals Accepted

Several funding proposals for General Observer (GO) IXPE observations have been accepted by NASA headquarters. They are “X-ray polarization of a TeV binary” and “X-ray polarimetry of bright atoll sources” led by Philip Kaaret and “Unraveling particle acceleration in astrophysical…

SERVIR Participation at 2024 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting

IMPACT Science Discovery Engine Lead Included in NASA Group Achievement Award

Kaylin Bugbee (ST11) was included in a NASA Group Achievement Award for the NASA Enterprise Digital Transformation team. The team was selected for a NASA Group Achievement Award at the HQ Honor Award Ceremony on 4/24/23. This award was conferred…

IMPACT Team Hosts a Webinar with the IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) on Geospatial Foundation Model

On 4/23/24, Sujit Roy (UAH/IMPACT), Johannes Schmude (IBM Research) and Manil Maskey (IMPACT/ST11) led an interactive webinar “Towards Digital Twin: Introduction to Foundation Models for Geoscience.” This event, organized by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS), provided a…

Presentation at the USGS Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) Forum

Manil Maskey (IMPACT/ST11) presented at the USGS AI/ML Learning Forum on 4/17/24. This event, which focused on AI/ML applications in Geospatial and Remote Sensing, was attended by representatives from various federal agencies. Maskey highlighted the capabilities and uses of the…

Science Discovery Engine (SDE) Presentations at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly Meeting in Vienna, Austria

Kaylin Bugbee (ST11) gave a hyperwall presentation on 4/18/24 about the SDE platform at the NASA exhibit at the EGU general assembly. The hyperwall presentation introduced potential users to the beta platform, highlighted its existing capabilities, and presented a vision…

IMPACT’s Airborne Data Management Group (ADMG) Leads Second Workshop on NASA’s Airborne and Field Data

On 4/23-24/24, in a collaboration with NASA Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) and several Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs), the Airborne Data Management Group (ADMG), a cycle 1 SNWG Solution and project within NASA IMPACT, led the 2024…

Keynote Talk at Brazilian Technological Conference – BrazilJS

Africa Flores-Anderson was a keynote speaker at BrazilJS, a technological conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil, focused in sharing the latest technologies for developers, from cloud to AI solutions, with an audience of about 2,500. Her talk “A paradigm shift in…

SERVIR Hosts Visit from UC Boulder for Knowledge Exchange on Climate and Water in East Africa

Phoebe Oduor and Eric Anderson from the SERVIR Science Coordination Office hosted Denis Muthike from University of Colorado Boulder for a special seminar on “Combining global engineering, education and research for resilient communities in developing economies.” Muthike was a former…

Summary of the 2023 GRACE Follow-On Science Team Meeting

Introduction In October 2023, the annual gathering of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow-On [G-FO] Science Team took place in Boulder, CO, hosted at University Corporation for Atmospheric Research’s (UCAR) Center Green campus. The event had…

Spaceflight affects tumor-bearing fruit fly hosts and their parasites

How does spaceflight affect tumor-bearing fruit fly hosts and their parasites? Background: Like humans, fruit flies (a model organism for spaceflight research) also exhibit immune system dysfunction in space. Despite decades of studies on fruit flies and wasps, little was…

The Marshall Star for May 29, 2024

More to Marshall: Center Leadership Provides Updates During Spring All-Hands Meeting By Wayne Smith NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will celebrate its 65th birthday next summer, and while there are plans to honor the center’s rich history, there is also…

NASA Goddard, Maryland Sign Memo to Boost State’s Aerospace Sector

To foster growth in Maryland’s aerospace industry, the state’s Department of Commerce signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NASA at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Wednesday, May 28, 2024. The agreement commits the two organizations to develop…

25 Years Ago: STS-96 Resupplies the Space Station

On May 27, 1999, the second space station assembly and logistics mission began. The main goals of STS-96, designated as the 2A.1 mission in the overall assembly sequence, included resupplying and repairing the fledgling orbital facility, consisting of the Zarya…