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After arriving at the Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan, Utah, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in May 2025, the instrument…
Technicians and engineers inspect NASA's NEO Surveyor's instrument enclosure at the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) in Logan, Utah, after it…
The instrument enclosure for NASA's NEO Surveyor on May 22, 2025, is seen in a clean room at the Space…
The NISAR satellite uses a radar antenna reflector that's 39 feet (12 meters) in diameter to gather information about Earth's…
NISAR will track wetland flooding to study how these carbon-rich ecosystems are reacting to climate change. It will generate images…
This animation depicts NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter performing a 120-degree roll that increases the strength of its radar signal by…
NISAR made the two-day trip from the ISRO Satellite Integration and Test Establishment (ISITE) in Bengaluru. It arrived on May…
NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, are now traveling through interstellar space at around 35,000 mph (56,000 kph). This…
An astronaut glove is prepped for testing in a chamber called CITADEL at NASA JPL. Conducted at frigid temperatures, the…
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover carries a calibration target consisting of five swatches of spacesuit materials that scientists are studying as…
NISAR will use synthetic aperture radar to offer insights into change in Earth's ecosystems, including its agricultural lands. The spacecraft,…
Soon after NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft launched on Oct. 14, 2024, the mission team powered on each of the science…
Sunlight gleams off NASA's Lunar Trailblazer as the spacecraft orbits the Moon in this artist's concept. The mission will discover…
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer sits on its rotation fixture after being fueled and prior to being installed to the EELV Secondary…
Lunar Trailblazer's voyage to the Moon will take between four and seven months. This orbital diagram shows the low-energy transfer…
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft gets covered in anti-static wrap before being shipped from Lockheed Martin Space to the agency's Kennedy…
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer approaches the Moon as it enters its science orbit in this artist's concept.
One of three small lunar rovers that are part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE is attached to a…
One of three small lunar rovers that are part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE is prepared for shipping…
Engineers and technicians prepare one of three small lunar rovers that are part of a NASA technology demonstration called CADRE,…
Engineers on NASA's Europa Clipper mission work with a piece of hardware called star trackers before they are integrated onto…
Final assembly of NASA's SPHEREx spacecraft is shown at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in March 2024.
NASA's SPHEREx observatory is oriented in a horizontal position, revealing all three layers of photon shields as well as the…
NASA's SPHEREx observatory is installed in the Titan Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) test Chamber at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in…
NASA's SPHEREx observatory is surrounded by speaker stacks used to perform acoustics testing, which subjects the spacecraft to the acoustics…
NASA's SPHEREx observatory is subjected to vibrations in all three axes separately. The test was successfully completed Aug. 16, 2024.
NASA's SPHEREx observatory undergoes integration and testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in April 2024.
The SPHEREx observatory sits in a clean room after environmental testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in late 2024.
NASA's SPHEREx space observatory was photographed at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in November 2024 after completing environmental testing.
In this illustration, NASA's SPHEREx mission is highlighted among a line of other NASA space telescopes.
Members of the SPHEREx mission team pose for a photo on the campus of Caltech in Pasadena, California, in October…
Operating from low Earth orbit, the SPHEREx telescope will sweep across the sky, taking about 600 exposures each day.
This artist's concept depicts the SPHEREx spacecraft's orbital plane in orange, and its field of view in green.
This artist's concept shows the SPHEREx spacecraft and its distinctive conical photon shields, which protect the telescope from infrared light…
NISAR will use synthetic aperture radar to offer insights into change in Earth's solid surfaces, including the Antarctic ice sheet.…
NISAR will offer insights into Earth's constantly changing land and ice surfaces using synthetic aperture radar technology. The spacecraft, depicted…
To simulate conditions on the giant asteroid Vesta that would occur after meteoroids strike the surface, scientists used the Dirty…
NASA's Mars Chopper concept, shown in a design software rendering, is a more capable proposed follow-on to the agency's Ingenuity…
This graphic depicts the most likely scenario for the hard landing of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 72nd and…
On its journey to the Jupiter system, NASA's Europa Clipper will take a path that swings past Mars, then Earth,…
Two prototypes for a NASA mission concept called SWIM are arranged beside a much smaller nonfunctioning model representing the final…
A model of the final envisioned SWIM robot, right, sits beside a capsule holding an ocean-composition sensor. The sensor was…
A prototype of a robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons is reflected in the water's surface during…
NASA's Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm) robotic arm system reaches out from a lander on the Moon and scoops…
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Lunar Trailblazer in lunar orbit about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the surface of the…
A container holding NISAR's radar antenna reflector is loaded into NASA's C-130 cargo plane at March Air Reserve Base in…
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft approaching Jupiter and its icy moon Europa.
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft as it orbits Jupiter and passes over the gas giant's ice-covered moon…
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft performing a close flyby of Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft silhouetted against Jupiter as it passes over the gas giant's icy moon…
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft sits in a clean room in August 2024 after undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space…
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft carries a suite of nine science instruments and a gravity experiment that uses its telecommunications system.
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in…
Jupiter's moon Europa is smaller than Earth's moon yet may contain more than twice as much liquid water as all…
With its solar arrays and antennas fully extended, the Europa Clipper spacecraft stretches out larger than a basketball court.
Scientists believe that under the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa a saltwater ocean exists that may contain more than…
NASA's Europa Clipper is tasked with up-close study of Jupiter's enigmatic moon Europa.
This artist's concept depicts the long, looping path NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will take to reach the Jupiter system.
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft in orbit at Jupiter as it passes over the gas giant's icy…
This artist's concept depicts NASA's NEO Surveyor in deep space. The black-paneled angular structure in the belly of the spacecraft…
A technician operates articulating equipment to rotate NEO Surveyor's aluminum optical bench in a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion…
A mirror that was later installed inside the telescope for NASA's NEO Surveyor shows a reflection of principal optical engineer…
This artist's concept depicts NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter.
NASA's Europa Clipper is seen here on Aug. 21, 2024, in a clean room at the agency's Kennedy Space Center…
NASA's Europa Clipper is seen here on Aug. 21, 2024, in a clean room at the agency's Kennedy Space Center…
Three small rovers bound for the Moon are arrayed in a clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in…
This artist's concept depicts one of the Carbon Mapper Coalition's Tanager satellites, the first of which launched on Aug. 16,…
At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on June 7, 2024, clean room technicians use a crane to lift the lid of…
A truck arrives at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on June 3, 2024, to deliver the Medium Articulating Transportation System (MATS),…
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in March 2024, engineers and technicians pose with…
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in March 2024, technician Nik Schwarz prepares the…
Seen here in November 2023, Farside Seismic Suite's inner cube houses the NASA payload's battery and two seismometers. The gold,…
NASA's Farside Seismic Suite undergoes work in a JPL clean room in March, 2024. The instrument's two seismometers are packaged…
JPL engineers and technicians prepare NASA's Farside Seismic Suite for testing in simulated lunar gravity. The payload will gather the…
One of the two shoebox-size CubeSats that make up NASA's PREFIRE mission sits on a table at Blue Canyon Technologies.…
This graphic shows a test of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument. At left, starlight leaks into the field of view when…
Team members at JPL said farewell to the Roman Coronagraph Instrument on May 17, 2024, by signing their names to…
At JPL on May 17, 2024, members of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument team use a crane to lift the top…
This artist's concept depicts one of two PREFIRE CubeSats in orbit around Earth. The NASA mission will measure the amount…
This animated artist's concept depicts three small rovers – part of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration headed for the Moon –…
One of three small rovers bound for the Moon took an autonomous test drive in a clean room at NASA's…
NASA's Europa Clipper is seen being lifted into the Space Simulator at JPL in February, 2024. Thermal vacuum testing, which…
Europa Clipper is seen in the 85-Foot Space Simulator at JPL in February, 2024, before the start of thermal vacuum…
The art on this side of the plate features waveforms that are visual representations of the sound waves formed by…
A commemorative plate mounted on NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft features U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón's handwritten In Praise of Mystery:…
Members of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration team pose with two full-scale development model rovers in the Mars Yard at the…
With its solar panels open, a small rover that is bound for the Moon sits in a clean room at…
Two full-scale development model rovers are tested in JPL's Mars Yard in August 2023 as part of NASA's CADRE tech…
Clamped to a shaker table, one of NASA's CADRE rovers gets shaken vigorously during a test in November 2023.
A CADRE rover is prepared for electromagnetic interference and compatibility testing in a special chamber at JPL in November 2023.
Members of the CADRE assembly, test, launch, and operations team pose with completed hardware in a clean room at JPL…
Part of NASA's CADRE technology demonstration, three small rovers show off their ability to drive as a team autonomously during…
This artist's concept depicts NISAR in orbit over central and Northern California.
The Roman Coronagraph was peppered with radio waves to test its response to stray electrical signals. The test was performed…
JPL scientist Vanessa Bailey stands behind the Nancy Grace Roman Coronagraph, which has been undergoing testing at JPL. The Coronagraph…
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is seen in the main clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet…
Engineer Matthew Cameron-Hooper performs a checkout on some systems of the Europa Lander landing gear testbed at NASA's Jet Propulsion…
Engineers test the mechanical landing system for the proposed Europa Lander project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Sept. 15,…
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepare flight-like landing gear in the Europa Lander landing gear testbed in summer 2022.
Engineers tested the system that will lower three small rovers onto the lunar surface when NASA's CADRE technology demonstration arrives…
