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NASA’s Artemis II mission will transport four astronauts around the Moon, bringing the agency one step closer to sending the…
Nuclear propulsion and power technologies could unlock new frontiers in missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA has reached…
Just like your cellphone stays connected by roaming between networks, NASA’s Polylingual Experimental Terminal, or PExT, technology demonstration is proving…
NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the Fly Foundational…
The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after two years, setting up the foundations of high-speed communications for…
NASA and Northrop Grumman are preparing to send the company’s next cargo mission to the International Space Station, flying research…
Components of a NASA technology that could one day help crew and cargo enter harsh planetary environments, like that of…
Written by Daniel Boyette In the vacuum of space, where temperatures can plunge to minus 455 degrees Fahrenheit, it might…
Many of the conveniences we have on Earth are still being developed to work in space. For example, we can…
A trio of suitcase-size rovers and their base station have been carefully wrapped up and shipped off to join the…
If you tell Lauren Best Ameen something is hard and cannot be done, she will likely reply, “Watch me.” As…
One year ago today, the future of space communications arrived at Earth as a beam of light from a NASA…
As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for…
NASA’s LCOT (Low-Cost Optical Terminal), a ground station made of modified commercial hardware, transmitted its first laser communications uplink to…
The Deep Space Optical Communications tech demo has completed several key milestones, culminating in sending a signal to Mars’ farthest…