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...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... Iowa in 1979 and has also worked at Goddard Space Flight Center and Marshall Space Flight Center. Dr Naseem Rangwala is an astrophysicist at NASA Ames Research Center and the NASA Project Scientist for the SOFIA airborne observatory. She earned her...
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...
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...
March 2022
What space taught me about water
... to the spin-offs to commercial and humanitarian uses of space technology, NASA itself brings this same technology back to Earth for its own use. At the NASA Ames Research Center in California, they have designed and built Sustainability Base, which...
