NASA Challenge Winners Develop Robots for Earth and Rovers for Space
NASA challenged teams to create autonomous rovers that could detect and collect samples using artificial intelligence. Years later, one winning team is using what they learned to make the world — and beyond — a better place.
Cloaked Black Hole Discovered in Early Universe Using NASA’s Chandra
Astronomers have discovered evidence for the farthest “cloaked” black hole found to date, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. At only about 6% of the current age of the universe, this is the first indication of a black hole hidden by gas at such an early time in the history of the cosmos.
Rocket Science in 60 Seconds: What Is the SLS Green Run Test?
Chandler Scheuermann is the cryogenic tanks subsystem element manager for the Space Launch System rocket at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. In this episode, he explains how the rocket’s core stage will be tested and certified fit for flight to the Moon and, ultimately, Mars in an acceptance test series called “Green Run.”
NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative Opens Call for Payloads on Artemis 2 Mission
NASA is seeking proposals from U.S. small satellite developers to fly their CubeSat missions as secondary payloads aboard the Space Launch System on the Artemis 2 mission under the agency’s CubeSat Launch Initiative. The initiative provides CubeSat developers a low-cost pathway to conduct research in space that advances NASA’s strategic goals in the areas of science, exploration, technology development, education and operations.
Wide Disparity in Soil Wetness this Summer across Alabama, Southeast
The pattern of soil moisture across Alabama and more broadly the Southeastern United States has evolved into one of marked disparity over relatively short distances and time frames, according to the Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The latter part of June into July featured well above-average rainfall in some areas that reversed the rapid drying trends observed during the last half of May through early June.
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