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NASA is demonstrating laser communications on multiple missions — showcasing the benefits infrared light can have for science and exploration missions transmitting terabytes of important data. NASA: The International Space Station is getting a “flashy” technology demonstration this November. The ILLUMA-T (Integrated Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Low Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal) payload […]
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission recently accomplished a historic feat by successfully landing a capsule containing rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu. The capsule was landed in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City. (Photo credits:NASA/Keegan Barber). The goal of this mission is to help scientists […]
After a seven-year anticipation, NASA scientists successfully opened a space probe Tuesday, revealing the largest asteroid samples ever returned to Earth, which turned out to be black debris. Researchers “found black dust and debris on the avionics deck of the Osiris-Rex science canister when the initial lid was removed today,” the U.S. space agency said, […]
“Part of my role is ensuring that the instrumentation, the observatory design, and the general technology is proven to enable observations as diverse as galaxies and supermassive black holes to habitable worlds, so called exoplanets,” Packham, an astrophysics professor in the UTSA Department of Physics and Astronomy, explained. “Distinct from the infrared optimized JWST, HWO […]
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission recently accomplished a historic feat by successfully landing a capsule containing rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu. The capsule was landed in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City. (Photo credits:NASA/Keegan Barber). The goal of this mission is to help scientists […]
This artistic rendering shows a runaway supermassive black hole that was ejected from its host galaxy after a tussle between it and two other black holes. As the black hole plows through intergalactic space it compresses tenuous gas in front to it and leaves a “contrail” of stars behind it. ARTWORK: NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak […]
NASA is set to send the first-ever black astronaut to the moon. Victor Glover, 46, was selected to take part in the space agency’s Artemis II mission — the US’ first lunar mission in a . . .
WEAVERVILLE, N.C. — While NASA and SpaceX prepare to launch four people to the International Space Station on Monday from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, a North Carolina company has done its part for the Crew-6 mission. There’s one crucial thing every launch needs before leaving the planet — a mission patch. The coaster-sized piece of […]
WEAVERVILLE, N.C. — While NASA and SpaceX prepare to launch four people to the International Space Station on Monday from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, a North Carolina company has done its part for the Crew-6 mission. There’s one crucial thing every launch needs before leaving the planet — a mission patch. The coaster-sized piece of […]
Ronald McNair, part of the class of 1978, died in the space shuttle Challenger in 1986.Credit: NASA The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel Meredith Bagby William Morrow (2023) Growing up in racially segregated South Carolina in the 1950s, Ronald McNair saw door after […]