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    Strong Solar Flare Erupts from Sun

    A red and gold Sun against a black background. A bright white and yellow X flashes and flickers in the upper left side of the Sun. This is the flare. The other parts of the Sun are mix of red and black.

    The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 5:47 p.m. EDT on Jan. 10, 2023. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to …

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    Astronauts Relax after Dragon Leaves, Cosmonauts Study Heart Activity in Space

    Four Expedition 68 astronauts are enjoying Tuesday off after spending the weekend packing a U.S. cargo craft and readying it for departure on Monday. The International Space Station’s three cosmonauts spent their day concentrating on cardiac research while servicing a variety of orbital lab systems. The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship is orbiting Earth following its …

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    Science-Packed Dragon Cargo Craft Undocks from Station

    After receiving commands from flight controllers on the ground, the uncrewed SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked from the zenith port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 5:05 p.m. At the time of undocking, the station was flying about 259 miles over the Pacific Ocean. The Dragon spacecraft successfully departed the space station after arriving …

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    Dragon Cargo Craft Prepares to Leave Station Live on NASA TV

    Live coverage of the departure of SpaceX’s uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station is underway on NASA Television, the agency’s website, and the NASA app. After receiving a command from ground controllers at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, Dragon will undock at 5:05 p.m. from the zenith port of the station’s Harmony module …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/09/2023

    SpaceX-26 Undock and Return: Cargo Dragon SpaceX-26 (SpX-26) undocked from the ISS today at 4:05 PM CT to return cargo and payloads to the ground concluding the 43-day mission aboard the ISS. SpX-26 will complete departure phasing throughout the next day, jettison the Trunk for destructive re-entry, deorbit, and then splash down off the coast …

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    Sun Releases Strong Solar Flare

    A red and gold Sun against a black background. A bright white and yellow X appears on the left side of the Sun. This is the flare. To the right of the flare, a white, yellow, and gold splotch appears. The other parts of the Sun are mix of red and black.

    The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 1:50 p.m. EST on Jan. 9, 2023. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured imagery of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy. Flares and solar eruptions can impact radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and pose risks to spacecraft …

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    Science-Filled Dragon Leaving Station Today After Crew Med Checks

    A U.S. cargo craft is being loaded with hardware and sensitive research samples for analysis on Earth before it departs the International Space Station today. The Expedition 68 crew members also had time on Monday for biomedical activities and lab maintenance ensuring the crew and the station continue operating in tip-top shape. The SpaceX Dragon …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 1/06/2023

    Payloads: BioNutrients-2: BioNutrients-2 Production Bags was removed from SABL and placed into cold stowage MELFI-3. BioNutrients demonstrates a technology that enables on-demand production of human nutrients during long-duration space missions. The process uses engineered microbes, like yeast, to generate carotenoids from an edible media to supplement potential vitamin losses from food that is stored for …

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    Crew Packs Dragon, Conducts Life Sustaining Research at End of Week

    The Expedition 68 crew will go into the weekend packing a U.S. resupply ship before it departs the International Space Station on Monday. In the meantime, the seven orbital residents concluded the work week researching a variety of space phenomena, maintaining advanced science hardware, and wrapping up three days of eye exams. The SpaceX Dragon …

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    IXPE Mission Team Profile: The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics University of Colorado-Boulder

    College students sit as computers lined in a row to work on IXPE.

    By Rick Smith As NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission explores black holes, neutron stars, and other cosmic phenomena – helping to answer fundamental questions about extreme space environments – it relies on the mission operations team at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, or LASP. Some 700 people – engineers, scientists, mission-operations personnel …

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