AWE Stories

An artist's conception of the international space station flying over earth's atmosphere. A yellowish beam comes down from the space station toward's Earth's atmosphere, leaving a multi-colored path across the sky below it, representing AWE's measurements.

AWE Launching to Space Station to Study Atmospheric Waves via Airglow

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NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment, or AWE, mission is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in November 2023, where it will make use of a natural, ethereal glow in Earth’s sky to study waves in our planet’s atmosphere. Built…

Article7 months ago

NASA’s SpaceX CRS-29 Mission Flies Research to the Space Station

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The 29th SpaceX commercial resupply services (CRS) mission for NASA carries scientific experiments and technology demonstrations, including studies of enhanced optical communications and measurement of atmospheric waves. The uncrewed SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to launch to the International Space…

Article7 months ago