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Mighty MURI brings the heat to test new longwave infrared radiometer
Multiband Uncooled Radiometer Instrument (MURI)NASA's new Multiband Uncooled Radiometer Instrument (MURI) features a novel bolometer that detects infrared radiation without a cryogenic cooler, greatly reducing the cost and complexity of…
Approval to Exceed GSA Lodging for LPSC 2024
2 min readThis letter from SARA is to issue a waiver for NASA grantees attending LPSC 2024 allowing them to be reimbursed out of their grants for their actual lodging,…
People Behind the Work at NASA Stennis
NASA’s Stennis Space Center brings together people from all backgrounds to support NASA’s mission to explore the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all and inspire the world…
NASA’s Tech Demo Streams First Video From Deep Space via Laser
The video, featuring a cat named Taters, was sent back from nearly 19 million miles away by NASA’s laser communications demonstration, marking a historic milestone. NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications…
Cosmic Companionship Quest Marks Major Milestone
2 min readAre we alone in the universe? About 30,000 volunteers want to know! These volunteers visited ;to sift through a huge data set from the 100 meter Green Bank Telescope—inspecting it…
Ice Flows on Mars
NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona On Aug. 18, 2023, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured ridged lines carved onto Mars’ landscape by the gradual movement of ice. While…
NASA’s BurstCube Passes Milestones on Journey to Launch
3 min readScientists and engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have completed testing for BurstCube, a shoebox-sized spacecraft designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions.…
NASA’s Webb Rings in Holidays With Ringed Planet Uranus
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on its side. Webb captured this dynamic world with rings, moons,…
NASA’s GUSTO Prepares to Map Space Between the Stars
6 min readOn a vast ice sheet in Antarctica, scientists and engineers are preparing a NASA experiment called GUSTO to explore the universe on a balloon. GUSTO will launch from…
50 Years Ago: Skylab 4 Astronauts Push Past the One-Month Mark
In December 1973, Skylab 4 astronauts Gerald P. Carr, Edward G. Gibson, and William R. Pogue passed the one-month mark of the third and final mission aboard the Skylab space…