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The High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO) instrument head, which houses the lidar instrument, is installed onto the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Vibration and laser testing is being conducted on Ares I-X segments at NASA's Kennedy Space...
This time-lapse shows a laser 3D printing process that fused metals together, layer-by-layer, to create the new...
The LAGEOS I (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) was developed and launched by the Marshall Space Flight Center on May 4,...
S124-E-005655 (2 June 2008) --- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, STS-124 mission...
jsc2023e064875 (10/19/2023) --- Artistic depiction of ILLUMA-T communicating to LCRD over laser links. ILLUMA-T...
ICESat-2 will provide scientists with height measurements that create a global portrait of Earth’s third dimension,...
ICESat-2 es un láser espacial de gran precisión que integra la tecnología más puntera de la NASA. Para poder medir...
ICESat-2 will provide scientists with height measurements that create a global portrait of Earth’s third dimension,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 1, workers watch closely as the orbiter boom...
This mosaic shows various scenes captured from a location called "Housedon Hill" by the ChemCam instrument aboard...
This Photo, which appeared on the July cover of `Physics Today', is of the Electrostatic Levitator (ESL) at NASA's...
This is a close-up of a sample of titanium-zirconium-nickel alloy inside the Electrostatic Levitator (ESL) vacuum...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 1, workers watch closely as the orbiter boom...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, the orbiter boom sensor system is moved into...
S71-2250X (June 1971) --- A close-up view of the Scientific Instrument Module (SIM) to be flown for the first time...
This image of the titanium nameplate on the robotic arm of NASA's Mars Perseverance rover was taken at a payload...
A close-up view of an engineering model of SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Orbiter Processing Facility’s bay 3, workers attach a crane to the orbiter boom sensor...
The goal of the CHOMPTT mission is to demonstrate new technologies that could be used for navigation and satellite...
A special lighting technology was developed for space-based commercial plant growth research on NASA's Space...
La Demostración del retransmisor de comunicaciones láser (o LCRD por sus siglas en inglés) volará como una carga...
Visitors get a rare opportunity to view laser beams pointed at the moon at Optical Site. Goddard's Laser Ranging...
The goal of the CHOMPTT mission is to demonstrate new technologies that could be used for navigation and satellite...