LDSD Test Flight a Success | Comet Target 'Releases' Plentiful Water

 

LATEST NEWS First LDSD Test Flight a Success The project declares the first test flight of NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator a success. Read more Rosetta's Comet Target 'Releases' Plentiful Water Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is releasing the Earthly equivalent of two glasses of water into space every second. Read more

 

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Media Telecon: NASA Supersonic Test Flight Completed

LATEST NEWS Media Telecon: NASA Supersonic Test Flight Completed A news teleconference has been scheduled for tomorrow, June 29, to discuss the near-space test flight of NASA's LDSD. › Read full story

 

 

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NASA Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator Set to Lift Off

LATEST NEWS NASA Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator Set to Lift Off Mission managers are proceeding with preparations for a launch attempt tomorrow morning, Saturday, June 28, of a high-altitude balloon carrying the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) test vehicle to the edge of space. › Read full story

 

 

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NASA's Curiosity Rover Team Today Features Women

LATEST NEWS NASA's Curiosity Rover Team Today Features Women Today (Thursday) is Women's Curiosity Day for the diverse team running NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, with female engineers and scientists doing most of mission's 90-plus roles. › Read full story

 

 

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Cassini Celebrates 10 Years | Dates Set for Saucer-Shaped Test Vehicle Flight | OCO-2 Tracks Impact on Airborne Carbon

 

LATEST NEWS Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Exploring Saturn On June 30, NASA's Cassini mission will celebrate 10 years exploring Saturn, its rings and moons. Read more NASA Sets New Dates for Saucer-Shaped Test Vehicle Flight NASA's LDSD project plans to fly its rocket-powered, saucer-shaped landing technology test vehicle into near-space from Kauai, Hawaii, this weekend. Read more NASA's OCO-2 Will Track Our Impact on Airborne Carbon Human activities are the primary source for the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide. NASA's OCO-2 mission will help sort out the gas's human and natural sources and reservoirs. Read more

 

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Curiosity Rover Marks First Martian Year | Titan's Building Blocks Might Pre-date Saturn

 

LATEST NEWS NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Marks First Martian Year NASA's Mars Curiosity rover will complete a Martian year -- 687 Earth days -- on June 24, having accomplished the mission's main goal of determining whether Mars once offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life. Read more Titan's Building Blocks Might Pre-date Saturn A combined NASA and European Space Agency (ESA)-funded study has found firm evidence that nitrogen in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan originated in conditions similar to the cold birthplace of the most ancient comets from the Oort cloud. Read more

 

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Spitzer Spies Odd Asteroid | QuikScat Eyes Ocean Winds | OCO-2 Readies for Launch | NASA Hunts for Asteroids

 

LATEST NEWS Spitzer Spies an Odd, Tiny Asteroid Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have measured the size of an asteroid candidate for NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a proposed spacecraft concept to capture either a small asteroid, or a boulder from an asteroid. Read more QuikScat's Eye on Ocean Winds Lives On with RapidScat Today (June 19) marks the 15th anniversary of the launch of NASA's QuikScat, a satellite sent for a three-year mission in 1999 that continues collecting data. Built in less than 12 months, QuikScat has watched ocean wind patterns for 15 years and improved weather forecasting worldwide. Read more NASA's OCO-2 Observatory Ready for Launch The launch of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission (OCO-2) at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California, is scheduled for Tuesday, July 1. Read more NASA Announces Latest Progress in Hunt for Asteroids NASA is on the hunt for an asteroid to capture with a robotic spacecraft, redirect to a stable orbit around the moon, and send astronauts to study in the 2020s -- all on the agency's human Path to Mars. Read more

 

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Update on Asteroid Redirect Mission | Titan Flybys Test the Talents of Cassini Team

 

LATEST NEWS NASA Update on Asteroid Redirect Mission On Thursday, June 19, NASA will host a televised update on recent progress and upcoming milestones in the agency's efforts to identify, capture and relocate an asteroid, and send astronauts to take samples of it in the 2020s Read more Titan Flybys Test the Talents of NASA's Cassini Team As NASA's Cassini spacecraft zooms past Titan during a June 18 flyby, it will be bouncing radio waves off the moon's surface and through its atmosphere, toward Earth. Read more

 

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Giant Telescopes View Near-Earth Asteroid | New Observatory To Study Carbon | Herschel Spots Strange Ring

 

LATEST NEWS Herschel Sees Budding Stars and a Giant, Strange Ring An unusually large ring of material has been spotted in a tangled nest of developing stars. Read more New NASA Space Observatory to Study Carbon Conundrums NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to measuring carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere is in final preparations for a July 1 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Read more Giant Telescopes Pair Up to Image Near-Earth Asteroid NASA scientists using Earth-based radar have produced sharp views of a recently discovered asteroid as it slid silently past our planet. Read more

 

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NASA Media Telecon on Status of LDSD Hawaiian Test Flight

LATEST NEWS NASA Media Telecon on Status of LDSD Hawaiian Test Flight NASA will hold a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, June 12 to discuss what this delay in the LDSD testing means and possible next steps for the project. › Read full story

 

 

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Upcoming Educator Workshop: Lunar and Meteorite Sample Certification

 

JPL EDUCATION - WORKSHOPS Educator Workshop: Lunar and Meteorite Sample Certification Date: Sat., June 21, 2014, 10 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Target Audience:K-12 Teachers Location: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Von Karman Auditorium Overview: This workshop is recommended for all grades in a classroom setting. NASA makes actual lunar samples from the historic Apollo missions available to lend to teachers. You must attend this certification workshop to bring the excitement of real lunar rocks and regolith samples to your students. This workshop is being offered by NASA/JPL's Educator Resource Center in Pasadena, CA in the von Karman Auditorium. To reserve your spot, call 818-393-5917. This workshop is limited to 45 attendees. This free workshop is offered through the NASA/JPL Educator Resource Center, which provides formal and informal educators with NASA resources and materials that support STEM learning. For more information, visit the Educator Resource Center page at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=115. A full listing of educator workshops from NASA/JPL can be found on the JPL Education website, at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/index.cfm?page=387

 

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Mercury Passes in Front of the Sun, as Seen From Mars | Instruments on Rosetta Start Comet Science

 

LATEST NEWS Mercury Passes in Front of the Sun, as Seen From Mars New NASA images from Mars showing Mercury as a dim spot against the sun are the first observation from any planet other than Earth of any planet's solar transit. Read more NASA Instruments on Rosetta Start Comet Science Three NASA science instruments aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft are beginning observations and sending science data back to Earth. Read more

 

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NASA Announces Briefing on New Carbon Dioxide Mission

LATEST NEWS NASA Announces Briefing on New Carbon Dioxide Mission There were no witnesses to a stellar blast that lit up our skies a millennium ago, but NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is finding clues in the charred remains. › Read full story

 

 

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