By Mara Johnson-Groh NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Recently, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission — MMS — was in just the right place at the right time to observe a new kind of turbulent particle jet in near-Earth space. The particle jet streamed from a particularly turbulent region called the magnetosheath, just outside the outer boundary of …
By Steele Hill NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center On Sept 9-10, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory witnessed a double lunar transit, when the Moon passed between the SDO spacecraft and the Sun twice in just a few hours. But did you know that the Earth can also get in the way? Here's how Earth and Lunar …
By Lina Tran and Miles Hatfield NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center NASA's STEREO spacecraft watches the Sun 24/7 — but the Sun it sees is not the one you and I see. STEREO can see the Sun's corona, or outer atmosphere. The only time we can see the corona from Earth with the naked eye …
NASA and Northrop Grumman are now targeting Friday, Oct. 26, 2018, for the launch of the agency's Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON. The spacecraft will launch aboard a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch window is 90 minutes starting at 4 a.m. EDT and ICON will …
Just over a month into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned first-light data from each of its four instrument suites.
NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) is embarking on a three-year mission to measure the ice of Earth's frozen and icy areas after a successful liftoff today at 6:02 a.m. PDT (9:02 a.m. EDT) from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The spacecraft was delivered to Earth orbit by …
NASA's ICESat-2 spacecraft deployed its four solar panels and is drawing power, indicating it is healthy upon its arrival in orbit. The spacecraft launched on the final flight of the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, lifting off from Space Launch Complex-2 at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base at 6:02 a.m. PDT (9:02 a.m. EDT). …
P-PODs 2 and 3, with their ELFIN B, DAVE and SurfSat CubeSat payloads have been successfully deployed.
The first of three P-PODs (Poly Picosatellite Orbital Deployers) has deployed its payload, the ELFIN A CubeSat. P-PODs 2 and 3 are coming up!
The Delta II rocket's second stage has completed its third burn, a brief pulse lasting just a few seconds. The next major milestones will be the deployments of the ELaNa XVIII CubeSats, which are housed inside deployers mounted on the second stage.
