NASA selected 60 winning teams for the second TechRise Student Challenge, a nationwide contest designed to engage students in technology, science, and space exploration. These teams will work together to build science and technology experiments in preparation for a suborbital flight test.
Read MoreMonth: January 2023
Fun with Fluid Physics
NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio is all smiles as he observes the behavior of a free-flying water bubble inside the International Space Station’s (ISS) Kibo laboratory module on Oct. 10, 2022.
Read MoreLa NASA afirma que 2022 es el quinto año más cálido registrado
La temperatura promedio de la superficie de la Tierra en 2022 empató con 2015 como la quinta más cálida registrada, según un análisis de la NASA. Continuando con la tendencia del calentamiento a largo plazo del planeta, las temperaturas globales en 2022 estuvieron 0,89 grados centígrados (1,6 grados Fahrenheit) por encima del promedio para el perío
Read MoreNASA Says 2022 Fifth Warmest Year on Record, Warming Trend Continues
Earth’s average surface temperature in 2022 tied with 2015 as the fifth warmest on record, according to an analysis by NASA. Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, global temperatures in 2022 were 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit (0.89 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA’s baseline period (1951-1980), scientists from NASA’s Goddard Institut
Read MoreNASA opens hatch of Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft (photo)
NASA has started unpacking the Orion spacecraft after its epic moon mission. Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida have opened Orion‘s hatch and begun removing payloads that flew to the moon and back aboard the capsule on the Artemis 1 mission. This work will take quite a bit of time. “This week, technicians will extract nine avionics boxes from the Orion, which will subsequently be refurbished for Artemis 2, the first mission with astronauts,” NASA officials wrote in an update (opens in new tab) on Tuesday (Jan. 10).…
Read MoreIn photos: Virgin Orbit’s first UK launch from Spaceport Cornwall
(Image credit: Daisy Dobrijevic/Space.com) Virgin Orbit’s “Start Me Up” mission was the first-ever orbital mission to lift off from the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, things didn’t go to plan when its 70-foot-long (21 meters) LauncherOne rocket suffered an anomaly, preventing it from making orbit. The company’s carrier plane Cosmic Girl lifted off from Spaceport Cornwall on schedule on Monday (Jan. 9) at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT). The lift-off was celebrated by thousands of onlookers who had descended on Spaceport Cornwall to be part of the historic launch. Cornwall Airport Newquay…
Read MoreRocket Lab targeting Jan. 23 for 1st launch from US soil
Rocket Lab’s debut mission from American soil will lift off less than two weeks from now, if all goes according to plan. The launch window for Rocket Lab‘s “Virginia Is for Launch Lovers” mission will open on Jan. 23, the company announced on Wednesday (Jan. 11). The flight will lift off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia (hence the name). The launch window runs from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. EST on Jan. 23 (2300 GMT to 0100 GMT on Jan. 24) and on the daily backup dates, which…
Read MoreNASA Awards Contracts for Human Capital Support Services
NASA has awarded contracts to IBEX IT Business Experts, LLC of Norcross, Georgia, Bryce Solutions, LLC of Alexandria, Virginia, and Strategy Consulting Team of Fairfax, Virginia, to provide human capital support across the agency.
Read MoreJapan’s Prime Minister, US Secretary of State to Visit NASA
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy will welcome Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, and other U.S. and Japanese leaders to NASA Headquarters in Washington at 4:30 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 13.
Read MoreInspecting Orion
The Artemis I Orion capsule is secured on a platform inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this image from Jan. 6, 2023.
Read More