NASA and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration plan to release a solicitation for the procurement of two Solar Wind Plasma Sensor instruments, or SWiPS, as part of the Space Weather Next Lagrange
MoreNASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment on Tuesday achieved “first light” after a flight laser transceiver aboard the agency’s Psyche spacecraft transmitted and received near-infrared signals from Earth. The DSOC experiment sent
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The U.S. Navy and the Missile Defense Agency jointly conducted a demonstration of advanced hypersonic technologies as part of the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonics Test Bed program. The test campaign, which took
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Jim Free, associate administrator for NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate since 2021, has been promoted to associate administrator, succeeding Bob Cabana, who is retiring at the end of the year after
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Karl Mathias, chief information officer at the Department of Health and Human Services and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, will step down as CIO on Dec. 1 to assume an engineering role at
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NASA has appointed Denton Gibson as launch director of the Kennedy Space Center Launch Services Program, which he has been a part of since 2004. Gibson, who previously served as senior mission
MoreNASA intends to launch Lunar Node 1 in early 2024 as part of an effort to establish a capability that would enable Global Positioning System-like navigation near and around the moon. LN-1,
MoreNASA+, the space agency’s on-demand streaming service, is now available on the updated NASA app, which can be downloaded via Android or iOS. NASA said Wednesday that the streaming service, which is
MoreNASA’s Stennis Space Center has unveiled a strategic plan outlining its goals and objectives in key mission areas for the next five years as it seeks to accelerate its space exploration and
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NASA is soliciting information from organizations that can participate in the development of its Lunar Infrastructure Foundational Technologies demonstration. The agency on Monday issued a request for information to advance its plan
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