29 April 2020
NASA's new solar sail system to be tested on-board NanoAvionics' satellite
...Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3). This a result of a contract between NASA Ames Research Center and AST for a 12U bus to carry NASA's payload into low Earth orbit (LEO) including an approximately 800 square foot (74 square meter) composite...
14 December 2017
AI detects eighth planet orbiting distant sun
... of planets. “These results demonstrate the enduring value of Kepler’s mission,” said Jessie Dotson, Kepler’s project scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. “New ways of looking at the data – such as this early-stage...
April 2018
Future Cubesat swarms pose significant communications challenges
...2442-2473, Fourth quarter 2016. 3 Small Spacecraft Technology State of Art, Mission Design Division Staff, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA/TP–2014–216648/REV1, July 2014 4 Crail, B. Clayton. Ranking CubeSat Communication Systems Using a Value-centric...
September 2017
Spaceflight studies support geriatric health on Earth
... and director of the Institute for Adaptive and Spaceflight Physiology in Graz (1994-2010). He was ESA Research Fellow at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California (1984-85), organised the 3rd European Symposium on Life Sciences...
January 2018
Cosmic cocktails and galactic moonshine
... on Mars. One group investigating the prospect of Martian agriculture is called ‘Potatoes on Mars’, based at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. According to planetary scientist Dr Chris McKay, a team member of the initiative...
November 2019
Mexico’s path to space
... space science and technology so they can acquire knowledge and skills by developing real space projects at the NASA Ames Research Center in San Jose, California. Once they finish their internship, students share their experience with other students...
