NASA delivered the first flight hardware for the Lunar Pathfinder mission to ESA (European Space Agency), which formally accepted the instrument on Nov. 4. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, developed ...
Space Exploration
Dec 5, 2022
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NASA is canceling a planned satellite that was going to intensely monitor greenhouse gases over the Americas because it got too costly and complicated.
Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2022
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The sun was in a good mood this week, or at least that's what it looked like in a photo published by NASA.
Astronomy
Oct 28, 2022
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The Pacific nation of Tonga is made up of 170 islands, but it just welcomed its newest addition—thanks to an underwater volcano.
Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2022
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Preparations are looking up for the launch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) satellite. On behalf of NOAA, NASA develops and builds the instruments, spacecraft, ...
Space Exploration
Sep 22, 2022
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South Korea joined the stampede to the moon Thursday with the launch of a lunar orbiter that will scout out future landing spots.
Space Exploration
Aug 5, 2022
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NASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface.
Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2022
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Over the past few weeks, a group of engineers from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Airbus Netherlands and NASA has been working on installing the Dutch aerosol instrument SPEXone on NASA's PACE satellite. PACE ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 23, 2022
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Two small NASA satellites that were meant to study hurricane development failed to enter orbit Sunday when their Astra rocket shut off before reaching the necessary altitude, the US space agency said.
Space Exploration
Jun 13, 2022
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NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are now targeting Nov. 1, 2022, as the new launch date for NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) satellite mission. During recent tests of a key ...
Space Exploration
Jun 1, 2022
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