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A host of CubeSats, or small satellites, are undergoing the final stages of processing at Rocket Lab USA’s facility...
As a platform used by small businesses, entrepreneurs, and researchers to test their science and technology in...
This annotated view of a portion of Pluto's Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain), named for Earth's first artificial...
According to NASA satellites, the Earth is running a fever_ In fact, it turns out that the planet's temperature has...
STS052-71-057 (22 Oct-1 Nov 1992) --- This 70mm frame, photographed with a handheld Hasselblad camera aimed through...
NASA scientists and engineers named their new CubeSat after the mythological Norse god of the dawn. Now, just days...
ISS032-E-019583 (19 Aug. 2012) --- Five of the six Expedition 32 crew members pose for a photo with a small...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the News Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Andrew Petro, the agency's...
RainCube was deployed into low-Earth orbit from the International Space Station in July, 2018, where it has been...
Students and sponsors hear from astronauts aboard the International Space Station on a big screen in the Center for...
jsc2021e052201 (3/2/2021) --- One of the payload cameras is installed into the Binar-1 flight model. The custom-made...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the News Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Andrew Petro, the agency's...
NASA Kennedy Space Center's Trent Smith conducts a quantum levitation demonstration, using liquid nitrogen, metal...
A trio of programmable off-the-shelf Sphero robots are shown at the Center for Space Education at NASA's Kennedy...
Darth Vader and other Star Wars characters from the 501st Legion address students and sponsors in the Center for...
A middle-school student high-fives a Star Wars character from the 501st Legion in the Center for Space Education at...
jsc2021e052200 (1/25/2021) --- A completed Binar-1 flight model sits waiting for launch. Binar-1 is first Western...
NASA Kennedy Space Center's Trent Smith conducts a quantum levitation demonstration, using liquid nitrogen, metal...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the News Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Andrew Petro, the agency's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the News Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Andrew Petro, the agency's...
NASA Kennedy Space Center's Trent Smith conducts a quantum levitation demonstration, using liquid nitrogen, metal...
jsc2021e052203 (4/12/2021) --- Top view of the completed Binar-1 flight model, waiting for launch. Binar-1 is first...
The U.S.-French SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite captured the leading edge of a tsunami wave that...
A survey of barrier islands published in 2011 in the Journal of Coastal Research offers the most thorough assessment...