NASA’s Dust Shield Successfully Repels Lunar Regolith on Moon – NASA

NASA’s Dust Shield Successfully Repels Lunar Regolith on Moon – NASA

NASA’s Electrodynamic Dust Shield (EDS) successfully demonstrated its ability to remove regolith, or lunar dust and dirt, from its various surfaces on the Moon during Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, which concluded on March 16. Lunar dust is extremely abrasive and electrostatic, which means it clings to anything that carries a charge. It can … Read more

Precision Landing Tech for Future Space Missions

Precision Landing Tech for Future Space Missions

Nestled in a pod under an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft wing, flying above California, and traveling up to the speed of sound, NASA put a commercial sensor technology to the test. The flight tests demonstrated the sensor accuracy and navigation precision in challenging conditions, helping prepare the technology to land robots and astronauts on the Moon … Read more

NASA Starling and SpaceX Starlink Improve Space Traffic Coordination – NASA

NASA Starling and SpaceX Starlink Improve Space Traffic Coordination – NASA

As missions to low Earth orbit become more frequent, space traffic coordination remains a key element to efficiently operating in space. Different satellite operators using autonomous systems need to operate together and manage increasing workloads. NASA’s Starling spacecraft swarm recently tested a coordination with SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, demonstrating a potential solution to enhance space traffic … Read more

Goodnight, Moon: NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture Lunar Sunset – NASA

Goodnight, Moon: NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture Lunar Sunset – NASA

This compressed, resolution-limited gif shows the view of lunar sunset from one of the six Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 cameras on Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander, which operated on the Moon’s surface for a little more than 14 days and stopped, as anticipated, a few hours into lunar night. The bright, swirly … Read more

NASA, USGS, Industry Explore Off-World Resource Development – NASA

NASA, USGS, Industry Explore Off-World Resource Development – NASA

NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) welcomed a community of government, industry, and international partners to explore current technology needs around natural resources – both on Earth and “off world.” During a workshop held in February at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, participants discussed technologies that will improve the ability to … Read more

NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture First-of-its-Kind Moon Landing Footage – NASA

NASA Cameras on Blue Ghost Capture First-of-its-Kind Moon Landing Footage – NASA

A team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, has captured first-of-its-kind imagery of a lunar lander’s engine plumes interacting with the Moon’s surface, a key piece of data as trips to the Moon increase in the coming years under the agency’s Artemis campaign. The Stereo Cameras for Lunar-Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) 1.1 instrument … Read more

NASA Receives Some Data Before Intuitive Machines Ends Lunar Mission – NASA

NASA Receives Some Data Before Intuitive Machines Ends Lunar Mission – NASA

Shortly after touching down inside a crater on the Moon, carrying NASA technology and science on its IM-2 mission, Intuitive Machines collected some data for the agency before calling an early end of mission at 12:15 a.m. CST Friday. As part of the company’s second Moon delivery for NASA under the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar … Read more

What is a NASA Spinoff? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 53 – NASA

What is a NASA Spinoff? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 53 – NASA

What is a NASA Spinoff? Well, to answer that question, we’re going to have to go all the way back to 1958, back to the legislation that originally created the space agency, NASA. So in that legislation, there’s some forward-looking language that says, “Make sure that all the cool stuff you develop for space doesn’t … Read more

NASA Installs Heat Shield on First Private Spacecraft Bound for Venus – NASA

NASA Installs Heat Shield on First Private Spacecraft Bound for Venus – NASA

Engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, Bohdan Wesely, right, and Eli Hiss, left, complete a fit check of the two halves of a space capsule that will study the clouds of Venus for signs of life. Led by Rocket Lab of Long Beach, California, and their partners at the Massachusetts Institute … Read more

Liftoff! NASA Tech, Science En Route to Moon with Intuitive Machines – NASA

Liftoff! NASA Tech, Science En Route to Moon with Intuitive Machines – NASA

The next set of NASA science and technology demonstrations is on its way to the lunar surface, where they will gather data about Earth’s nearest neighbor and help pave the way for American astronauts to explore the Moon and beyond, for the benefit of all. Carrying NASA instruments as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial … Read more