Category: Updates

The two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kenney Space Center carrying the Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space …

NASA has procured combined data support services under an agreement with the Norwegian Space Centre in Oslo, Norway, for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) …

Target: Sol (our sun) Mission: SDO Instrument: Atmosphere Imaging Assembly Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/Solar Dynamics Observatory Source:: updates       

Scientists, researchers and experts from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will mobilize to experience the eclipse and share it with others. Source:: …

Experiments seeking a better understanding of Parkinson’s disease and the origin of cosmic rays are on their way to the International Space Station aboard a …

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft looks toward the night side of Saturn’s moon Titan in a view that highlights the extended, hazy nature of the moon’s atmosphere. …

Target: Titan Mission: Cassini-Huygens Instrument: Radar Mapper Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Source:: updates       

Target: Titan Mission: Cassini-Huygens Instrument: ISS – Narrow Angle Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Source:: updates       

On Monday, Aug. 21, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the Sun, and NASA Television will carry it live from …

A technical challenge that NASA is working to solve is how to maintain very cold liquid propellants to be used as fuel for deep space …

NASA has awarded a contract to Paragon TEC, Inc. of Cleveland to provide acquisition and business support services at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center …

NASA has awarded a contract to RS&H, Inc. of Merritt Island, Florida, for architectural engineering and design services for the modification of the mobile launcher …

Target: Jupiter Mission: Juno Instrument: JunoCam Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Mik Petter Source:: updates       

Target: Mars Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument: THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates       

NASA’s Archinaut project seeks to enable on-demand building and assembly of large structures in space. This summer, it achieved that goal — 3-D printing large …

NASA is on a roll when it comes to testing engines for its new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will send astronauts to deep-space …

Target: Mars Mission: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Instrument: Navcam (MSL) Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/York University Source:: updates       

Target: Mars Mission: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Instrument: Navcam (MSL) Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/York University Source:: updates       

NASA commercial cargo provider SpaceX is targeting its 12th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station for 12:31 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 14. …

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of solar evaporation ponds outside the city of Moab, Utah. There are 23 colorful ponds …

This week in 2007, space shuttle Endeavour and STS-118 launched from Kennedy Space Center to complete installation of the third starboard S5 truss segment to …

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will enter new territory in its final mission phase, the Grand Finale, as it prepares to embark on a set of ultra-close …

On Aug. 21, a total solar eclipse will cross the United States from coast-to-coast for the first time in 99 years. To celebrate, NASA’s Glenn …

Target: Mars Mission: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Instrument: HiRISE Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona Source:: updates       

Target: Mars Mission: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Instrument: HiRISE Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona Source:: updates       

From his vantage point aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik pointed his camera toward the rising Moon and captured this beautiful image …

Target: Mars Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument: THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates       

The thin sliver of Saturn’s moon Prometheus lurks near ghostly structures in Saturn’s narrow F ring in this view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Source:: updates …

Target: Prometheus Mission: Cassini-Huygens Instrument: ISS – Narrow Angle Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Source:: updates       

The recent announcement for a position that NASA has had since the 1960s – Planetary Protection Officer – has generated a lot of excitement in …

On July 5, 2017, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory watched an active region — an area of intense and complex magnetic fields — rotate into view …

Target: Mars Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey Instrument: THEMIS Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Source:: updates       

A new SLS Mission Planners Guide provides an in-depth overview of different possible rocket configurations, payload capabilities and technical specifications. Source:: updates 2       

Target: 2014 MU69 Mission: New Horizons Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker Source:: updates       

Target: 2014 MU69 Mission: New Horizons Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker Source:: updates       

NASA will host a media teleconference at noon EDT Tuesday, Aug. 8, to discuss select science investigations launching on the next SpaceX commercial resupply flight …

NASA and Brazilian researchers are joining forces to study a pair of nettlesome equatorial phenomena which routinely disrupt ground-based communications and navigations and could put …

NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik looks through the hatch of the International Space Station’s Bigelow Expandable Aerospace Module (BEAM) on July 31, 2017. The BEAM is …

Cub Scouts of the Bay Area will speak with a NASA astronaut living, working and doing research aboard the International Space Station at 1:40 p.m. …