NASA’s Explorer Program Nabs Newbies
Two science proposals have now been selected by NASA to become the agency's next Explorer Program Mission of Opportunity investigations.
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Oui! NASA’s Jason 2 Launches—A Quadripartite Launch Success
NASA successfully launched on Friday a new NASA-French space agency oceanography satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on a globe-circling voyage.
Read MoreGot Rocks? NASA’s Moon Digging Contest Goes For Deep Pockets
Did you sign up? Hope so, for the deadline is now closed for team registration at the California Space Education and Workforce Institute (CSEWI), with a record number of 25 team entrants having signed for the upcoming 2008 Regolith Excavation Challenge involving a NASA winning purse of $750,000.
Read MoreUlysses Study of The Sun Sets
It's been a long run, and the Ulysses performed beyond expectations.
Read MoreChecking Out The Ocean Without Getting Soaked—OSTM/Jason 2 Launch Set
June 20th at Vandenburg AFB in California is the location... the date is June 20th... and vehicle is a Delta II rocket... and the payload is the Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM/Jason 2).
Read MoreNASA’S GLAST Blast At Last!
High-fives and a loud WooHoo! After a number of delays, finally, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, successfully launched aboard a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 12:05 p.m. EDT, June 11th.
Read MoreTime For The Right Stuff Again @ NASA
NASA's Science Mission Directorate, in cooperation with the agency's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, recently issued a Cooperative Agreement Notice seeking research projects for the NASA Lunar Science Institute.
Read MoreLockheed Martin In The Flow For IRIS
The Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, and a national and international team of co-investigators, have been selected by NASA to complete a $750,000 six-month study to design a new NASA Small Explorer Mission called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS).
Read MoreDeep Impact Obtains Epoxi
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft is aiming its largest telescope at five stars in a search for alien (exosolar) planets as it enters its extended mission, called Epoxi.
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