A Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket carrying students experiments for the RockOn! mission successfully launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Aug. 17 at 6 a.m. EDT.
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Deadly wildfires in Hawaii seen from International Space Station (photo)
Satellite imagery captured by the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday (Aug. 12) shows the Hawaiian island of Maui four days after wildfires broke out on the land. The photo was taken as the spaceborne laboratory orbited some 259 miles (417 km) above the Pacific Ocean. As of Wednesday (Aug. 16), the death toll of Hawaii’s catastrophic fires rose above 100. Shortly after confirmation of this figure, Governor Josh Green addressed the public saying “We are heartsick that we’ve had such loss.” And not only is this devastation being deeply…
Read MoreNASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 to Discuss Space Station Mission, Upcoming Return
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 will answer media questions at 2:40 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 23, about their mission aboard International Space Station prior to returning to Earth.
Read MoreThese 3 teams just hacked a US Air Force satellite in space … and won big cash prizes
The U.S. Air Force has announced the winners of its first-of-its-kind satellite hacking contest. This year’s Hack-A-Sat competition tasked teams with hacking into an actual satellite on orbit. This was the first year that the competition tasked teams with hacking an actual live satellite zooming above Earth; previous years used simulated satellites on the ground. The small cubesat, known as Moonlighter, was developed by the Aerospace Corporation and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and launched on June 5, 2023 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket along with a cargo…
Read MoreNASA’s New Horizons will investigate Uranus from the rear (Neptune, too). Here’s how you can help
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which visited Pluto in 2015, is embarking on an observing campaign of the ice giant planets Uranus and Neptune – and scientists need your help. Although New Horizons is now far beyond both Uranus and Neptune, throughout September it will be turning its Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) back to look at both planets from a vantage point more than 5 billion miles from Earth. In doing so, it will be seeing these worlds from the opposite direction to how we see them from Earth. To…
Read MoreNASA Hosts Astronaut Loral O’Hara’s Prelaunch Interviews
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara will virtually discuss her upcoming mission to the International Space Station during live interviews ahead of launch.
Read MoreLa NASA desafía a los estudiantes a volar experimentos
La NASA invita a los estudiantes de escuela secundaria y preparatoria de Estados Unidos a presentar ideas de experimentos para vuelos de prueba a bordo de un globo de gran altitud o de un módulo de aterrizaje propulsado por cohete en el tercer Desafío Estudiantil TechRise.
Read MoreNASA Challenges Students to Fly Earth and Space Experiments
NASA is calling on middle and high school students across the country to submit experiment ideas for a high-altitude balloon or rocket-powered lander test flight in the third TechRise Student Challenge.
Read MoreResearcher’s Path to NASA Leads to New Space Crop Technology
Aubrie O’Rourke performs both fundamental and application-based science as a member of Kennedy’s Space Crop Production team.
Read MoreOspreys Make a Home at Kennedy
Two ospreys perch in their nest atop a marshalling area sign in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this photo from June 7, 2023.
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