SLS Engine Section Test Hardware Installed in NASA Marshall Test Stand
NASA engineers installed test hardware for the agency’s new heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System, into a newly constructed 50-foot structural test stand at Marshall. In the stand, hydraulic cylinders will be electronically controlled to push, pull, twist and bend the test article with millions of pounds of force.
A Whole New Jupiter: First Science Results from NASA’s Juno Mission
Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet’s surface than previously thought.
Marshall Team Members Highlighted During Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Eleasa Wilson, a payload activities requirements coordinator working with the International Space Station whose parents immigrated to America from Korea, and Lien Moore, a software engineer developing flight software for NASA, once a Vietnam War refugee, shared their stories with the Marshall team during Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
NASA Scientists Assist LIGO in Third Gravitational Wave Observation
Marshall’s Tyson Littenberg contributed to the third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space-time, by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. The powerful waves reached Earth seconds before 4:12 a.m. CT on Jan. 4. Littenberg is part of the team that analyzes LIGO data to accurately parse out signals that are barely measureable — disturbances 10,000 times smaller than an atomic nucleus.
Tennessee Valley Corridor Summit in Huntsville Focuses on Collaborations
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Director Todd May and NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore were among many speakers this week at the annual Tennessee Valley Corridor Summit, hosted at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville. The summit focused on the importance of being smart, innovative and collaborative as NASA and industry build the systems necessary to send astronauts out into deep space.
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