Curated Video
The Structure of the Solar System and Gravity: A Brief Overview
This video provides an overview of the structure of our solar system and how gravity plays a crucial role in maintaining this structure. The video begins with the description of the sun at the center of our solar system, and then it...
NASA
Hubble Tool Time Episode 6: Servicing Mission 4
Retired NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld hosts this six-part mini-series about the tools used on the Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Hubble was uniquely designed to be serviced in space so that components could be repaired and...
NASA
How America's First Satellite Helped Create NASA
On Jan. 31 att 10:48 p.m. EST, Explorer 1 launched into space, hurtling into Earth's orbit in seven and a half minutes. The next day's front-page news declared that the United States was now officially in the Space Age. Music: Look...
NASA
Highlights From TESS's First Year
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 21 planets outside our solar system and captured data on other interesting events occurring in the southern sky during its first year of science. TESS has now turned its...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
What did the Viking Program Find on Mars?
Learn about the missions of the Viking space probes.
NASA
OSIRIS-REx Meets Bennu’s Surprises
The OSIRIS-REx team has already pushed the boundaries of scientific exploration — going from ground-based radar images from Arecibo in Puerto Rico all the way to orbiting a few hundred meters from asteroid Bennu. The team is mere days...
NASA
NASA | On Board NPP: The Five Instruments
The NPP satellite has 5 instruments on board: VIIRS, CERES, CrIS, ATMS, and OMPS. Each one will deliver a specific set of data helping weather prediction and climate studies. This video is a quick overview of each instrument and its...
NASA
Parker Solar Probe Trailer
Parker Solar Probe is NASA's mission to the Sun. The spacecraft will launch summer 2018. Music credit: Luminous Skies [Underscore] by Andrew Prahlow Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Genna Duberstein (USRA): Lead Producer Steve...
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The Unique Orbit of NASA’s Newest Planet Hunter
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - TESS - will fly in an orbit that completes two circuits around Earth every time the Moon orbits once. This special orbit will allow TESS’s cameras to monitor each patch of sky continuously...
NASA
OSIRIS-REx Tech – Taking Pictures of an Asteroid
NASA is sending the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to explore near-Earth asteroid Bennu, a carbon-rich body that may contain clues to the origins of life. When OSIRIS-REx arrives at Bennu in 2018, it will spend over a year orbiting the asteroid...
NASA
NASA’s TESS Delivers New Insights Into an Ultrahot World
Measurements from NASAs Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the bizarre environment of KELT-9 b, one of the hottest planets known. Located about 670 light-years...
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NASA/NOAA | GOES-O: Countdown To Launch
In this video, two days prior to the GOES-O launch, NASA Goddard Producer Silvia Stoyanova visits Cape Canaveral's Air Force Station, launch pad 37, to talk to NASA GOES N-P Deputy Project Manager Andre' Dress, about the factors that...
NASA
NASA | RRM: Mission to the Future Delivers the Goods
Fill'er up! That's the promise of robotic refueling on orbit: aging satellites can get a new lease on life from a robotic machine making a service call. Or, at least, the dream of such a system got dramatically closer after NASA's...
NASA
NASA | Fermi's Close Call with a Soviet Satellite
NASA scientists don't often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite. But when Julie McEnery, the project scientist for NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, checked her email on March 29, 2012, she...
NASA
NASA | Behind the Scenes at the Satellite Servicing Center and Robotic Lab
NASA's highly anticipated Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) began operations on the International Space Station with the Canadian Dextre robot and RRM tools March 7-9, 2012, marking important milestones in satellite-servicing technology...
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NASA | Back to the Moon. It's Official.
After a four and a half day journey from the Earth, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully entered orbit around the moon. Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed the spacecraft's...
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Asteroid Bennu Sample Site: Nightingale
The main science goal of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is to briefly touch down on near-Earth asteroid Bennu and collect a sample of fine-grained material, but the asteroid’s unexpected roughness could pose a hazard to the spacecraft. After...
Curated Video
I WONDER - How Does Gravitational Pull Work?
This video is answering the question of how does gravitational pull work.
Flipping Physics
Kepler's Third Law Derivation
Kepler’s third law is derived and demonstrated. This is an AP Physics C: Mechanics topic. Content Times: 0:00 Kepler’s Third Law 0:34 Kepler’s Third Law Derivation 3:38 Satellite mass is irrelevant
NASA
Lagrange Points: Lucy Goes to Space
Discover the mysteries of the solar system through the eyes of the Lucy mission and its team members. This second episode features Principal Investigator Hal Levison, who discusses the Trojan Asteroids located at Jupiter's Lagrange...
NASA
Landsat 9 At Work
Landsat 9, which NASA is launching in September 2021, will collect the highest quality data ever recorded by a Landsat satellite, while still ensuring that these new measurements can be compared to those taken by previous generations of...
NASA
TESS - Fly Your Exoplanet
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is taking your art to space! Draw a picture of an exoplanet, or planet orbiting another star, that you think TESS could find. It could fly on the TESS spacecraft, launching in 2018!...
NASA
TDRS Profile: Thomas Williams
Thomas Williams is a system engineer for NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS. The project built the follow-on replacement spacecraft necessary to maintain and expand NASA’s Space Network. The final third generation satellite...
NASA
NASA | Update: Hubble SM4 Flight Day 4
The Space Operations Control Center, also known as the STOCC, is responsible 24/7, 365 days a year for monitoring all Hubble systems and facilitating all of the telescope's science observations. Two teams of flight controllers designated...