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NASA’s Athena Economical Payload Integration Cost mission, or Athena EPIC, is a test launch for an innovative, scalable space vehicle design to support future missions. The small satellite platform is engineered to share resources among the payloads onboard by managing…
NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) spacecraft are targeting launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket during a launch window that opens at 2:13 p.m. EDT (11:13 a.m. PDT) on Tuesday, July 22. The TRACERS mission and…
The week ended aboard the International Space Station with more biomedical checks to keep astronauts fit and healthy on long-term missions in microgravity. The Expedition 73 residents are also preparing to split up in a couple of weeks while keeping…
Technicians installed a key piece of hardware that will help power NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) observatory on its upcoming journey one million miles away from Earth. The launch processing team integrated and tested the two-panel solar array…
In the vacuum of space, where temperatures can plunge to minus 455 degrees Fahrenheit, it might seem like keeping things cold would be easy. But the reality is more complex for preserving ultra-cold fluid propellants – or fuel – that…
A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy cluster in question is Abell 209, located 2.8 billion light-years away in the constellation Cetus (the Whale). This Hubble image of Abell 209 shows…
Four crew members are preparing to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to perform research, technology demonstrations, and maintenance activities aboard the orbiting laboratory.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the field of stars that is NGC 1786. The globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy that is approximately 160,000 light-years…
The four crew members slated to fly aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission entered quarantine on Thursday, July 17, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The start of NASA’s routine health stabilization program is one of the last major milestones…
Heart scans, breathing measurements, and a fitness test led the research activities aboard the International Space Station on Thursday giving doctors continuous insight into microgravity’s effect on the human body. The Expedition 73 residents also ensured the advanced science hardware…
