NASA’s ICON Mission Ends with Several Ionospheric Breakthroughs
NASA’s ICON, shown in this artist’s concept, studied the frontiers of space, the dynamic zone high in our atmosphere where terrestrial weather from below meets...
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NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for NOAA’s JPSS-4 Mission
A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite captures a view of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away....
NASA Ends VIPER Project, Continues Moon Exploration
NASA’s VIPER – short for the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover – sits assembled inside the cleanroom at the agency’s Johnson Space Center. Credit: NASA...
NASA Invites Media to Discuss Exploration Science Program Update
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft took this image of Earth’s Moon on Dec. 7, 1992, on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-97. The distinct...
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Space Telescope Mission
Credits: NASA NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) mission....
NASA, Partners Conduct Fifth Asteroid Impact Exercise, Release Summary
Representatives from NASA, FEMA, and the planetary defense community participate in the 5th Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise to inform and assess our ability as...
NASA Selects Lockheed Martin to Build Next-Gen Spacecraft for NOAA
Conceptualization of the GeoXO constellation. Credits: NOAA NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. of Littleton,...
Artemis, Architecture, and Lunar Science: SMD and ESDMD Associate Administrators visits Tokyo
3 min read Artemis, Architecture, and Lunar Science: SMD and ESDMD Associate Administrators visits Tokyo June 18, 2024 At NASA we always say that exploration...
NASA to Discuss Outcome of 5th Biennial Asteroid Threat Exercise
Representatives from NASA, FEMA, and the planetary defense community participate in the fifth Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise on April 2 and 3, 2024, to...
Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate Visits Partners in Spain, United Kingdom, Greece, and France
5 min read Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate Visits Partners in Spain, United Kingdom, Greece, and France A few weeks ago, I had...
