Category: Space and Tech
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Lockheed Martin LINUSS™ Small Satellites Ready For 2021 Launch
LITTLETON, Co. – Lockheed Martin’s In-space Upgrade Satellite System (LINUSS) completed environmental testing and is ready for launch later this year, demonstrating how small CubeSats can regularly upgrade satellite constellations to add timely new capabilities and extend spacecraft design lives. Space is a dynamic domain and our customers are demanding the ability to rapidly…
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NASA Unveils New Interactive Website Ahead of Landsat 9 Launch
Landsat 9, a joint NASA and U.S. Geological Survey satellite mission, is scheduled to launch Thursday, Sept. 16, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. To help the media and public learn more about the project and its near 50-year history, NASA has launched a new interactive website: www.nasa.gov/landsat9 Members of the media…
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NASA, Boeing to Provide Update on Starliner’s Orbital Flight Test-2
NASA and Boeing are continuing discussions on the status of the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission, and will host a joint media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 13, to discuss the second uncrewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station, as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Participants…
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NASA Awards $18 Million for Research at Minority Serving Institutions
NASA and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) across the United States are teaming up to bring untapped talent and diverse perspectives to several of the agency’s top priorities: understanding and monitoring global ocean health, returning humans to the Moon through the Artemis program, and helping build a more inclusive workforce. Minority Serving Institutions NASA will…
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Spots Perseverance From Above
Can you see NASA’s newest rover in this picture from Jezero Crater? NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently completed its 11th flight at the Red Planet, snapping multiple photographs during its trip. Along with capturing the boulders, sand dunes, and rocky outcrops prevalent in the “South Séítah” region of Jezero Crater, a few of the images capture NASA’s…
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Perseid Meteor Shower Peak
Don’t miss the #MeteorShowerPeak tonight! http://tnc.network/science/ TNC on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tncwrapup twitter: https://twitter.com/tnc_wrapup instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tnc.network… Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/tncnetwork/f Yes, it is time for the 2021 Perseid Meteor Shower! (video)
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Watch the Skies: An Asteroid Will Pass Close to Earth! (video)
A large asteroid, designated 2016 AJ193, will pass by Earth later this month, on August 21, 2021. Experts are saying that there’s no danger of it striking our planet. It’s relatively big, at just under a mile wide, and moving fast! NASA scientists are planning to bounce radar signals off the asteroid for observation,…
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NASA Spacecraft Provides Insight into Asteroid Bennu’s Future Orbit
In a study released Wednesday, NASA researchers used precision-tracking data from the agency’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft to better understand movements of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu through the year 2300, significantly reducing uncertainties related to its future orbit, and improving scientists’ ability to determine the total impact probability…
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NASA Science, Cargo Launches on Northrop Grumman Resupply Mission
A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with more than 8,200 pounds of science investigations and cargo after launching at 6:01 p.m. EDT Tuesday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. At 8:46 p.m., the spacecraft’s solar arrays successfully deployed to collect sunlight to power Cygnus on its…
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NASA Statement on Departure of JPL Director Michael Watkins
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on the departure of Michael Watkins, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California: “Under Mike’s leadership, JPL has accomplished some of NASA’s most inspiring science missions, launching and landing the InSight and Perseverance missions on Mars, the first flight on another planet, and giving humanity an unprecedented understanding of our own planet with the Earth ECOSTRESS, Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3, GRACE Follow-On, and Sentinel-6…