Notícias NASA

NASA’s 6-Pack of Mini-Satellites Ready for Their Moment in the Sun

Most NASA missions feature one spacecraft or, occasionally, a few. The agency’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) is using half a dozen. This month, mission members completed construction of the six identical cereal box-size satellites, which will now go…

Filling an Air Pollution Data Gap

Many cities have shortages of air quality monitors. NASA scientists have developed a tool called GEOS-CF that can help.

Webb Study Reveals Rocky Planets Can Form in Extreme Environments

An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other molecules in the highly irradiated inner, rocky-planet-forming regions of a disk in one of the most extreme environments in…

Flight 67 Preview – By the Numbers

Flight 67 Preview – By the Numbers

Discovery Alert: Watch the Synchronized Dance of a 6-Planet System

Six “sub-Neptune” exoplanets orbit their star in a kind of rhythmic dance – one easily set to music.

The Marshall Star for November 29, 2023

Artemis II Crew Enjoys Visit with Marshall Team Members By Wayne Smith From talking about continuing the legacy of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in space exploration to describing their roles in an upcoming historic mission, Artemis II astronauts enjoyed…

NASA Tests In-Flight Capability of Artemis Moon Rocket Engine

NASA conducted the third RS-25 engine hot fire in a critical 12-test certification series Nov. 29, demonstrating a key capability necessary for flight of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket during Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. NASA is…

Announcing the New Heliophysics Division Director

November 29, 2023 NASA has selected Dr. Joseph Westlake to fill the position of Heliophysics Division Director. Joe will join the Science Mission Directorate and assume his new role on Jan. 16, 2024. I am pleased to have Joe take…

Erebus Breaks Through

The fiery and icy upper reaches of the Antarctic volcano pierced through a canopy of clouds.

NASA, Small Companies Eye New Cargo Delivery, Heat Shield Technologies

Two small businesses are benefitting from NASA’s expertise as they develop heat shield technologies, cargo delivery systems, and new protective materials for spacecraft and space stations in the growing commercial industry of low Earth orbit operations. The two American companies…

Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One

Ham Radio in Space: Engaging with Students Worldwide for 40 Years

In May 2018, a student at Mill Springs Academy in Alpharetta, Georgia, Andrew Maichle, talked to NASA astronaut Scott Tingle on the International Space Station via amateur or ham radio. The experience profoundly affected Maichle, who went on to study…

Sols 4023-4024: Farewell, Solar Conjunction 2023

Mars has just emerged from its solar conjunction period, when sending commands to all Mars spacecraft was not safe for three weeks since the Red Planet was behind the Sun as seen from Earth.