10 December 2021
SpaceX launches NASA's IXPE mission
...understanding of the universe for years to come. Each NASA spacecraft is carefully chosen to target brand new observations enabling...,” said Martin Weisskopf, IXPE’s principal investigator at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. ...
16 December 2021
NASA delays launch of JWST
... of the James Webb space telescope scheduled for 22 December won't take place before 24 December, NASA announced on Wednesday. The NASA project that began development in 1996, was originally expected to deploy in the early 2000s. However, multiple...
12 August 2019
Communicating water-powered CubeSats tested in space by NASA
... another via radio and to propel themselves through space with water. This display of engineering marvel is part of NASA’s Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) mission and it has just helped to demonstrate the first coordinated...
September 2016
Paediatric cancer patients aim for the stars with space inspired art project
... as authentic. So I contacted my friend Gordon Andrews, a communications specialist for the International Space Station (ISS) team at the NASA Johnson Space Center, briefed him on my plan and asked if he could help me get accurate specs for a space...
October 2016
Unlocking the potential of annular ion engines
...technology is adopted for further development by non-NASA U.S. customers, the NASA development path for the AIE concept will be... capabilities more-directly supportive of the non-NASA customers is possible. Despite limited resources significant...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
...organizational causes of the Columbia accident - concluded that NASA’s organization for the Shuttle program combined, among other ... digging deeper into both the problem and the NASA rationale. NASA’s response is disingenuous in the extreme. Safety and...
