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A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International...
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International...
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International...
Pilatus PC-12 Aircraft Being Prepped for Takeoff on June 12, 2024. A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in...
A team at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland streamed 4K video footage from an aircraft to the International...
Carolyn Mizell, chief of the Research and Technology Management Office at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is...
Engineering technician Jeff Howell mounts conventional strain gauges to the Mock Truss-Braced Wing 10-foot model at...
jsc2025e067422 97/9/2025) --- Agar plates for the GULBI investigation. This research uses special optical fibers to...
Engineering technician Jeff Howell removes tape from the Mock Truss-Braced Wing 10-foot model at NASA’s Armstrong...
Steven Grantham (NIST) and John Woodward (NIST) contemplate cable management for air-LUSI’s Irradiance Instrument...
The High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO) instrument head, which houses the lidar instrument, is installed onto the...
jsc2025e067423 (8/5/20250 --- Germicidal UV light is emitted by an optical fiber running through the center of an...
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center’s FOSS, Fiber Optic Sensing System, recently supported tests of a system...
Shideh Naderi works on designing the electronics for the next generation Fiber Optic Sensing System.
The Fiber Optic Sensing System team includes in the front from left Nick Finks, Ryan Warner, Patrick Chan and Paul...
Patrick Chan demonstrates one way that the Fiber Optic Sensing System is used by bending a fiber with a 3D...
ProVision Technologies, a NASA commercial space center at Sternis Space Center in Mississippi, has developed a new...
Although the new fiber optic sensors on the Ikhana, which are located on fibers that are the diameter of a human...
NASA researcher Dr. Donald Frazier uses a blue laser shining through a quartz window into a special mix of chemicals...
Ikhana fiber optic wing shape sensor team: clockwise from left, Anthony "Nino" Piazza, Allen Parker, William Ko and...
STS042-05-006 (22-30 Jan 1992) --- Astronaut Norman E. Thagard, payload commander, performs the Fluids Experiment...
Scarning electron microscope images of the surface of ZBLAN fibers pulled in microgravity (ug) and on Earth (1g)...
ISS038-E-009253 (26 Nov. 2013) --- In the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory, NASA astronaut Michael...
ISS038-E-009255 (26 Nov. 2013) --- In the International Space Station?s Destiny laboratory, NASA astronaut Michael...