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“The efforts should help extend the lifetimes of the agency’s interstellar explorers. Engineers for NASA’s Voyager mission are taking steps to help make sure both spacecraft, launched in 1977, continue to explore interstellar space for years to come …
“The finding tells scientists about the variety of materials that shape planetary environments, based on data from the MIRI instrument, which JPL managed through launch. Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected evidence for quartz nanocrystals in …
“The star-forming region is festooned with colorful filaments of dust captured by Webb’s MIRI instrument, which was managed through launch by JPL. One of the greatest strengths of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is its ability to give …
“The spacecraft will explore a metal-rich asteroid, also named Psyche, to learn how Earth and other rocky planets formed. NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for its Psyche mission to a metal-rich asteroid. Launch is …
“A computer pilot helps NASA’s six-wheeled geologist as it searches for rock samples that could be brought to Earth for deeper investigation. In about a third of the time it would have taken other NASA Mars rovers, Perseverance recently …
“Harmful algae can endanger public health and coastal ecosystems and economies. Advances in satellite imaging are providing new ways to look at our living ocean. By the time they were over, a series of massive algal blooms along the west …
“After splashing down safely in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida early Monday morning, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 completed the agency’s sixth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station. The international crew of …
“An international crew of four representing four countries is in orbit following a successful launch to the International Space Station at 3:27 a.m. EDT Saturday, Aug. 26, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in …
“NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has begun the study of one of the most renowned supernovae, SN 1987A (Supernova 1987A). Located 168,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, SN 1987A has been a target of intense observations …
“Today’s small spacecraft pack sensors, guidance and control, and operating electronics into every available space. Printing electronic circuits on the walls and structures of spacecraft could help future missions do more in smaller packages. Engineers successfully tested hybrid printed …