NASA Improves GIANT Optical Navigation Technology for Future Missions

Goddard's GIANT optical navigation software helped guide the OSIRIS-REx mission to the Asteroid Bennu. Today its developers continue to add…

Goddard Engineers Improve NASA Lidar Tech for Exploration

Like a sonar using light instead of sound, lidar technology increasingly helps NASA scientists and explorers with remote sensing and…

NASA’s Oxygen-Generating Experiment MOXIE Completes Mars Mission

Riding with the Perseverance rover, the instrument has proved to be a viable technology for astronauts on Mars to produce…

NASA Turns to AI to Design Mission Hardware

Hardware designed by AI may resemble alien bones, but they weigh less, tolerate more stress, and require a fraction of…

NASA Seeks Comment on Space Technology Commercial Flight Solicitation

NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center invites review and comment on the draft of its Suborbital/Hosted Orbital Flight and Payload Integration Services…

NASA Developing AI to Steer Using Landmarks – On the Moon

A NASA engineer is teaching a machine to use features on the Moon’s horizon to navigate across the lunar surface.

NASA Armstrong Completes F/A-18E Tests

Understanding what stress, or strain, an aircraft can endure is critical to carrying out its intended mission. To better understand…

NASA Moon Mission Set to Break Record in Navigation Signal Test

Collaboration Powers GPS and Galileo Navigation Experiment As the Artemis missions journey to the Moon and NASA plans for the…

Fission System to Power Exploration on the Moon’s Surface and Beyond

Exploration of the Moon and Mars requires the power of human imagination and vision. It also takes the power of…