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Mon, 08/17/2020 - 12:02
Engineers Complete Test Campaign by Breaking SLS Rocket Tank... on Purpose FMEA at its finest
Mon, 08/17/2020 - 12:02
On June 24, 2020, engineers completed the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s structural testing campaign for the Artemis lunar missions by testing the liquid oxygen structural test article to find its point of failure. “The Space Launch System and…
NASA Launches Five-Year Tech Demo to Improve Air Traffic Flow at Airports Shared information will lead to more accurate planning and streamlined operation
Wed, 07/06/2016 - 17:36
(NASA: Washington, D.C.) -- NASA is working toward a greener future in aviation, where airplanes push back from the gate, taxi to the runway, and take off much quicker. A more efficient, precise trip by an airplane from the gate to takeoff reduces…
The Most Precise Measurement of an Alien World’s Size
Thu, 08/21/2014 - 14:02
Thanks to NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes, scientists have made the most precise measurement ever of the radius of a planet outside our solar system. The size of the exoplanet, dubbed Kepler-93b, is now known to an uncertainty of just 74…
Are We There Yet, Are We There Yet…? Interstellar GPS via plasma density measurements
Thu, 09/12/2013 - 14:18
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion km) from our sun. New and unexpected data indicate Voyager 1 has been traveling…
Scanning the Orion Heat Shield The next astronauts to reenter Earth’s atmosphere will be protected by PICA heat shield
Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:30
The United States will send a new generation of explorers to the moon aboard NASA’s Orion crew exploration vehicle, or CEV. Making its first flights early in the next decade, Orion is part of the Constellation Program to send human explorers back to…
NASA’S Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with “Rose” of Galaxies Interacting systems 300 light-years away are focus of telescope’s farsighted talents
Mon, 04/25/2011 - 11:48
(NASA: Washington) -- To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore pointed Hubble’s eye at an especially photogenic pair of…