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As the size of a satellite is scaled down to the form factor of a CubeSat, the hardware must scale down as well....
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In Hangar M on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the United Launch Alliance...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Technicians prepare to lift the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft into a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The fiery launch of Space Shuttle Columbia lights up the night sky on its successful...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the first of 24 light emitting diode LED panels...
NASA's SPHEREx observatory is installed in the Titan Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) test Chamber at BAE Systems in Boulder,...
Inside a laboratory in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, LED plant...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Just before dawn, space shuttle Endeavour is bathed in xenon lights after being secured on...
Small bright clouds dot Jupiter's entire south tropical zone in this image acquired by JunoCam on NASA's Juno...
Engineers install multilayer insulation (MLI) on the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSolo) instrument...
Oliver Price, a planetary science PhD student at University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the...
P-34687 Range : 530,000 km. ( 330,000 miles ) Smallest Resolvable Feature : 10 km or 6 miles This Voyager 2 image of...
The Apollo 16 Command Module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 27, 1972 after an 11-day moon exploration...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft awaits inspection after being moved...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Getting ready for the STS-123 mission, space shuttle Endeavour, atop the well-lighted...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Brilliant flames spread light across Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- At Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a solid rocket booster is raised from its...
Family members of the original Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) architect ride in an elevator during a tour of the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The light from engine ignition is reflected in the water near Launch Complex 37 at Cape...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- At Pad 17-B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, a solid rocket booster is raised to a...
This video clip shows a test of a new percussive drilling technique at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In Hangar M on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the United Launch Alliance...
The dark spots in this enhanced-color infrared image are the recent impact craters that occurred in the Tharsis...
In order to do groundbreaking science, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope must first unpack itself in deep space. In...