Portal origin URL: Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising WorldPortal origin nid: 449733Published: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: A piping hot planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed the way to additional worlds orbiting the same star,...
TUESDAY 30. JULY 2019
Video Length: 3:44Welcome to the world of 3D biomanufacturing, a cutting-edge practice on Earth that is being tested aboard the International Space Station. Read this story Video Links: 3D Biomanufacturing Aboard the ISS -...
MONDAY 29. JULY 2019
This blog post originated in the 2017 Science Mission Directorate Technology Highlights Report (33 MB PDF). Technology Infusion A colloid microthruster provides electric micropropulsion for drag-free and fine pointing applications. It uses an electrospray (electrostatically generated and accelerated charged droplets) to provide spacecraft control at tens of micronewtons of thrust (about...
Portal origin URL: NASA’s TESS Mission Scores ‘Hat Trick’ With 3 New Worlds Portal origin nid: 449631Published: Monday, July 29, 2019 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has found three new worlds in a system that promises to be among the most important targets for future...
FRIDAY 26. JULY 2019
Video Length: 3:59In July 1994, astronomers around the world watched as the fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into the planet Jupiter. Read this story Video Links: The Lasting Impacts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 -...
John “JT” Reager is receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his groundbreaking analysis of the way water moves around the globe. The PECASE Award is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to early-career government scientists and engineers who demonstrate the capacity for innovative science and cutting edge exploration. JT...
TUESDAY 23. JULY 2019
Portal origin URL: First of Two Van Allen Probes Spacecraft Ceases OperationsPortal origin nid: 449242Published: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 - 11:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: On July 19 mission operators turned off one of the two Van Allen Probes spacecraft. Originally slated for a two-year mission, the Van Allen Probes launched in 2012 and gathered...
MONDAY 22. JULY 2019
Vice President Mike Pence visited and gave remarks in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the agency’s Apollo 11 Moon landing and announce to America the completion of NASA’s Orion crew capsule for the first Artemis lunar mission. Portal origin URL: Vice President Unveils NASA...