Archives for November, 2023
NASA’s Educational CubeSats: Small Satellites, Big Impact
Despite their small size, the satellites launching through NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) missions have a big impact, creating access to space for many who might not otherwise have the…
NASA Delivers Inclusion Message to Annual Bayou Classic Participants
NASA was on full display during the 50th Annual Bayou Classic Fan Fest activity in New Orleans on Nov. 25, hosting an informational booth and interacting with event participants to…
NASA Conducts Annual Moon to Mars Architecture Concept Review
NASA hosted its second annual Architecture Concept Review in mid-November, bringing together leaders from across the agency to discuss progress on and updates to NASA’s Moon to Mars architecture since…
Google’s ‘A Passage of Water’ Brings NASA’s Water Data to Life
4 min readAs part of the long-standing partnership between NASA and Google, NASA worked with Google Arts & Culture and artist Yiyun Kang to create an interactive digital experience around…
NASA’s 6-Pack of Mini-Satellites Ready for Their Moment in the Sun
Most NASA missions feature one spacecraft or, occasionally, a few. The agency’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) is using half a dozen. This month, mission members completed construction of…
NASA Research Pilot David Zahn
“I want to help the Native community get better representation and show that we can help Native citizens get into aerospace engineering, mathematics, or . And the Cherokee and Choctaw…
Chandra Catches Spider Pulsars Destroying Nearby Stars
X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA; IR:NASA/JPL/Caltech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk A group of dead stars known as “spider pulsars” are obliterating companion stars within their reach. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of the globular cluster Omega…
Webb Study Reveals Rocky Planets Can Form in Extreme Environments
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other molecules in the highly irradiated inner, rocky-planet-forming regions of…
Deputy for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion Integration Joe Connolly
“The goal is to get as many of the wrong ideas out of the way as early as ; “So we’ll come up with some idea, especially on the research…
WP Panel Review: Tailoring the WordPress Dashboard to Your Agency’s Needs
Are you tired of a messy WordPress backend? Wish your clients could have a custom dashboard? WP-Panel transforms the backend of your WordPress site, giving your users a more streamlined,…