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NASA | LRO: Coming Soon to a Moon Near You
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission will conduct investigations preparing for and supporting future human exploration of the Moon.
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Lasers Fired At NASA's Parker Solar Probe
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is in the midst of intense environmental testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in preparation for its journey to the Sun. These tests simulate the noise and shaking the spacecraft...
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NASA | Mission Trailer: IRIS Readies For a New Challenge
NASA is getting ready to launch a new mission, a mission to observe a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere that powers its dynamic million-degree outer atmosphere and drives the solar wind. In late June 2013, the Interface...
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NASA | GROVER Heads to Greenland
NASA is ready to test a new student-designed rover at the Summit Camp in Greenland, a research station sitting on a two-mile thick sheet of ice. The Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, or GROVER, carries...
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NASA | Behind the Scenes at the LRO/LCROSS Launch Prep
Excitement is running high at Kennedy Space Center as NASA's top lunar experts prepare for the LRO/LCROSS launch.
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Driving a Spacecraft: Lucy Goes to Space
Discover the mysteries of the solar system through the eyes of the Lucy mission and its team members. This fourth episode features Lucy Flight Navigator Coralie Adam, who discusses how the team directs Lucy on its journey to the Trojan...
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NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Prepares for Trip to Asteroid by Testing Solar Arrays
NASA’s Psyche mission is preparing for a 1.5 billion-mile (2.4 billion-kilometer) solar-powered trip to the metal-rich asteroid of the same name. In a cleanroom at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in February 2022, twin solar arrays were...
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Webb Move from Houston to LA
After completing its cryogenic testing in NASA's Johnson Space Center’s Chamber A, the optical and science segment of the James Webb Space Telescope is packed and transported to the Northrop Grumman facility in Los Angeles. There, it...
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Virtual Tour of the Hubble Control Center: Operations Support Room
Step into the Operations Support Room, where the Hubble flight team investigates spacecraft anomalies and verifies new procedures. This is part 3 of 5 of a 360-degree, virtual tour of the Hubble Space Telescope’s home for mission...
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Tribute to Eugene Parker, Namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe
Dr. Eugene N. Parker, visionary of heliophysics and namesake of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, passed away on March 15, 2022. He was 94. As a young professor at the University of Chicago in the mid-1950s, Parker developed a mathematical...
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OLI-2 Ships From Ball Aerospace
The Landsat 9 instrument that will help scientists detect deforestation, monitor crops and track potentially toxic algal blooms, among many other uses, is now built, tested, and in place to be assembled onto the spacecraft. The...
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NASA | Update: Hubble SM4 Flight Day 8
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...
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NASA | Update: Hubble SM4 Flight Day 6
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...
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NASA | Siding Spring live shot with Jared Espley
Jared Espley talks about the close encounter between Mars and Comet Siding Spring at the Oct 17, 2014 liveshot. This is a canned interview.
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The Invisible Network: 03. Time | NASA's The Invisible Network Podcast
Whether you're relying on the careful observations of 1950s amateur astronomers and backyard telescopes or state-of-the-art GPS tracking and navigation technology: knowing where you are in space means needing to know what time it is.
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NASA | TDRS: Heart of Communication
The most recent evaluations of NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) project confirmed all systems go for TDRS-K, a third generation upgrade of the orbiting communications network. TDRS-K is scheduled for launch aboard an Atlas...
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NASA | Glory: The Rough Road to Space
Space is a harsh environment, and building a space-bound satellite is no small feat. Here's a look at how NASA engineers get the Glory mission off the ground and safely into space.
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Goddard's Support of Artemis and Humanity's Return to the Moon
At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, we’re leveraging our scientific and technical expertise across multiple capacities, including lunar and planetary science, sun science and space weather, space communications...
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No TV, no sat nav, no internet: how to fix space's junk problem
As Elon Musk's Starlink and Jeff Bezos's Project Kuiper race to create high-speed internet using satellites orbiting Earth, there's a small problem that could get in the way: debris. From dead spacecraft that have been around since the...
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SDO Celebrates a Decade of Watching Sun
Capturing an image in 10 different wavelengths of light every 12 seconds, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — has provided an unprecedentedly clear picture of how massive explosions on the Sun grow and erupt ever since its launch...
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NASA | SDO Launch and Deployment (animated)
This animation follows the Solar Dynamics Observatory from its launch at pad 41A from Kennedy Space Center through deployment. Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA | Maryland's Place in Space
What a spectacular day for the Goddard Space Flight Center. During the day the Marylands Place in Space Expo was held at the Baltimore Convention Center. It was like exploring the universe in your own back yard. There was over 100...
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NASA | Little SDO: Tons of Data
Little SDO demonstrates just how much data he sends every day. Read about SDO's veritable avalanche of data:Or get tweeted by NASA:
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NASA | GPM Launch Coverage Promo
Join NASA as we count down the launch of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission starting at 12:00 PM EST, Thursday, February 27, 2014. GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and...