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NASA's Orca, AirHARP Projects Paved Way for Pace to Reach Space

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It took the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission just 13 minutes to reach low-Earth...
It took the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission just 13 minutes to reach low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in February 2024. It took a network of scientists at NASA and research institutions around the world more than 20 years to carefully craft and test the novel instrumen...

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NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

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NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

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After receiving data about the health and status of Voyager 1 for the first time in...
After receiving data about the health and status of Voyager 1 for the first time in five months, members of the Voyager flight team celebrate in a conference room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 20. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usab...
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NASA's Juno Gives Aerial Views of Mountain, Lava Lake on Io

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This animation is an artist’s concept of Loki Patera, a lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io,...
This animation is an artist’s concept of Loki Patera, a lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io, made using data from the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft. With multiple islands in its interior, Loki is a depression filled with magma and rimmed with molten lava. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Imagery from the...

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NASA Technology Helps Guard Against Lunar Dust

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Defeating dust may be a small concern for most people on Earth, but for astronauts and...
Defeating dust may be a small concern for most people on Earth, but for astronauts and spacecraft destined for the Moon or Mars, it is a significant hazard that must be mitigated. That’s why researchers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are seeking innovative ways to use Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) tech...

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NASA Next-Generation Solar Sail Boom Technology Ready for Launch

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Sailing through space might sound like something out of science fiction, but the concept is no...
Sailing through space might sound like something out of science fiction, but the concept is no longer limited to books or the big screen. In April, a next-generation solar sail technology – known as the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System – will launch aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the company’s Launch C...

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NASA's LRO Finds Photo Op as It Zips Past SKorea's Danuri Moon Orbiter

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NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter), which has been circling and studying the Moon for 15 years,...
NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter), which has been circling and studying the Moon for 15 years, captured several images of Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s Danuri lunar orbiter last month. The two spacecraft, traveling in nearly parallel orbits, zipped past each other in opposite directions between March ...

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NASA direct coverage of the 2024 eclipse

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Engineers Pinpoint Cause of Voyager 1 Issue, Are Working on Solution

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Engineers have confirmed that a small portion of corrupted memory in one of the computers aboard...
Engineers have confirmed that a small portion of corrupted memory in one of the computers aboard NASA’s Voyager 1 has been causing the spacecraft to send unreadable science and engineering data to Earth since last November. Called the flight data subsystem (FDS), the computer is responsible for packaging the probe’s...
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NASA's Europa Clipper Survives and Thrives in 'Outer Space' on Earth

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Later this spring, the spacecraft will be shipped to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There,...
Later this spring, the spacecraft will be shipped to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There, teams of engineers and technicians will carry out final preparations with eyes on the clock. Europa Clipper’s launch period opens Oct. 10.After liftoff, the spacecraft will zip toward Mars, and in late February 2025, ...
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Antimatter Propulsion [pdf]

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The Driest Place on Earth

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In Northern Chile, a pick-up truck bumps along dusty old mining roads toward the Atacama Desert....
In Northern Chile, a pick-up truck bumps along dusty old mining roads toward the Atacama Desert. A team of scientists is driving from the coastal town of Antofagasta, and they occasionally pass other vehicles on the road -mostly prospectors searching for metals and minerals. After an hour, they arrive at a lonely me...
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The NASA Pi Day Challenge

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NASA Engineers Make Progress Toward Understanding Voyager 1 Issue

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Artist’s illustration of one of the Voyager spacecraft. Credit: Caltech/NASA-JPL Since November 2023, NASA’s Voyager 1...
Artist’s illustration of one of the Voyager spacecraft. Credit: Caltech/NASA-JPL Since November 2023, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has been sending a steady radio signal to Earth, but the signal does not contain usable data. The source of the issue appears to be with one of three onboard computers, the flight data su...
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NASA Unveils Design for Message Heading to Jupiter's Moon Europa

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NASA Opens Call for Simulated Yearlong Mars Mission

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The Lost Universe NASA's Tabletop Role-Playing Game Adventure

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View Nova Explosion, 'New' Star in Northern Crown

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A star system, located 3,000 light-years away from Earth, is predicted to become visible to the...
A star system, located 3,000 light-years away from Earth, is predicted to become visible to the unaided eye soon. This could be a once-in-a-lifetime viewing opportunity as the nova ouburst only occurs about every 80 years. T Coronae Borealis, or T CrB, last exploded in 1946 and astronomers believe it will do so agai...
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NASA: Total Eclipse 2024 – Where and When

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How does the sky turn dark at night?

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Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars

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There's an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it...
There's an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. This supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a never-before-seen 200,000-light-year-long "contrail"...

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Space Nuclear Propulsion

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Sagittarius A* spinning so fast it looks football shaped

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The Sharpest Pictures of Jupiter's Volcanic Moon Io in a Generation

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