Mars Orbiter Repositioned to Phone Home Mars Landing
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has successfully adjusted its orbital location to be in a better position to provide prompt confirmation of the August landing of the Curiosity…
Space Launch System Passes Major Agency Review, Moves to Preliminary Design
WASHINGTON — The rocket that will launch humans farther into space than ever before passed a major NASA review Wednesday. The Space Launch System (SLS) Program completed a combined System…
Condolences on the Passing of Pioneering Astronaut Sally Ride
WASHINGTON — In a space agency filled with trailblazers, Sally K. Ride was a pioneer of a different sort. The soft-spoken California physicist broke the gender barrier 29 years ago…
Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt
WASHINGTON — For several days this month, Greenland’s surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the…
Sun Erupts a 7.6 Million Mile per hour Coronal Mass Ejection from Sunspot 1520
Sunspot 1520 may have turned away from earth but it is still very active. On July 23rd it erupted a CME that sent matter speeding away from the sun at…
Successful Tests of Hypersonic Inflatable Heat Shield
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — A large inflatable heat shield developed by NASA’s Space Technology Program has successfully survived a trip through Earth’s atmosphere while travelling at hypersonic speeds up to…
The Longest Continuous View of Earth From Space Hits 40
WASHINGTON — NASA and the Interior Department Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the Landsat program, the world’s longest-running Earth-observing satellite program. The first Landsat satellite was launched July 23,…
New Supercomputer Facility Set to Advance Earth Research
WASHINGTON — NASA soon will open a new chapter of discovery using enhanced Landsat Earth-observing data in a state-of-the-art, high-performance computing and data access facility called NASA Earth Exchange (NEX)….
