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  • ISS Daily Summary Report – 12/14/2022

    Payloads: JEM Water Recovery System (JWRS): The JWRS Gas Trap Module B and T-union were reconnected. The JWRS Valve Module SV-7 was reinstalled and the JWRS Bypass Line tube tip was cut as part of JWRS troubleshooting. The demonstration of JWRS generates potable water from urine. In the past, urine and wastewater were collected and …

  • SWOT Prelaunch News Briefing Time Changed to 3 p.m. EST (Noon PST)

    nside the SpaceX facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, a crane is used to lower the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite for mating to the payload adapter on Dec. 5, 2022.

    NASA is adjusting the coverage time for the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission's prelaunch news conference. NEW TIME: 3 p.m. EST (noon PST) – SWOT Prelaunch News Conference on NASA TV and YouTube with the following participants: Karen St. Germain, director, NASA's Earth Science Division Thierry Lafon, SWOT project manager, CNES Tim Dunn, launch director, NASA's Launch …

  • Webb Glimpses Field of Extragalactic PEARLS, Studded With Galactic Diamonds

    On a black background, a white border outlines an irregularly shaped, mostly rectangular area. Within the outline lie hundreds of galaxies of various shapes, colors, and sizes. Two white boxes on the left side of the field enclose groups of galaxies. From each box, a line extends out beyond the border of the galaxy field to an enlarged image of the galaxy group, revealing streams of stars and tidal tails. On the right side, a third box encloses a spiral galaxy. A line extends beyond the border of the galaxy field to an enlarged image of the spiral galaxy. A few stars are also scattered across the image. Some have Webb's characteristic 8 diffraction spikes, while others have additional spikes due to a combination of image exposures.

    NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured one of the first medium-deep wide-field images of the cosmos, featuring a region of the sky known as the North Ecliptic Pole. The image, which accompanies a paper published in the Astronomical Journal, is from the Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science (PEARLS) GTO program. "Medium-deep" …

  • ISS Daily Summary Report – 12/13/2022

    Payloads: Combustion Integrated Rack (CIR): CIR Absorber Cartridge QDs (Quick Disconnects) were reconnected. The CIR includes an optics bench, combustion chamber, fuel and oxidizer control, and five different cameras for performing combustion investigations in microgravity. Dose Distribution Inside the International Space Station-3D (DOSIS-3D): DOSTEL-2 data and power cables were removed from DOSIS Main Box in …

  • Cosmonauts Ready for Spacewalk, Astronauts Run Space Research

    Two Expedition 68 crew members are making final preparations before exiting the International Space Station on Wednesday for the 12th spacewalk of the year. Meanwhile, the rest of the orbital residents kept up with advanced microgravity research operations. Commander Sergey Prokopyev will join Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin to begin a spacewalk at 9:20 p.m. EST …

  • Two Briefings on Tap Ahead of International SWOT Launch

    The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft is moved into a transport container inside the Astrotech facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California

    NASA, SpaceX, and the French space agency Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) are targeting 3:46 a.m. PST Thursday, Dec. 15, for launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite – the first global survey of nearly all water on Earth's surface. Today, Dec. 13, at 3 p.m. EST (noon PST), NASA will hold …

  • The Adventures of NASA Scientists through the Florida Marshes

    By Erica McNamee, science writer for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center // GREENBELT, MARYLAND // Look up to the blue skies, look right to the boats floating out at sea, look left to the deep green marshes of the Everglades and Big Cypress National Parks in Florida. This mangrove ecosystem contributes to the larger cycle …

  • NASA InSight’s Power Level as of Dec. 12, 2022

    As of Dec. 12, 2022, InSight is generating an average of ~285 watt-hours of energy per Martian day, or sol. The tau, or level of dust cover in the atmosphere, was estimated at .96 (typical tau levels outside of dust season range from 0.6-0.7).