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Here is a closeup of some of the X-59’s wiring and instrumentation system. Displayed here is the remote...
Technicians preform some installation work in the mid-bay on the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology or QueSST...
iss073e0768479 (Sept. 26, 2005) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Johnny Kim works with DNA...
This infrared photograph shows the uplink laser beacon for NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)...
A female computer plotting compressor data in the Engine Research Building at the NACA’s Lewis Flight Propulsion...
This timelapse video shows the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California,...
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration has successfully concluded after two years,...
Two name plates mounted on the Mars Perseverance rover's robotic arm are visible in this composite image, made from...
In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory (OCTL) at NASA Jet Propulsion...
This annotated image was taken by a parachute-up-look camera aboard the protective back shell of NASA's Perseverance...
The new 10-by 10-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory included high tech data...
The test data recording equipment located in the office building of the 10-by 10-Foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel at the...
This close-up photograph shows a single Performance-Enhanced Array for Counting Optical Quanta (PEACOQ) detector....
Shown here is a prototype of the Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, ground receiver detector built by the...
Hi, my name is Eric Anderson and I work for NASA here at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. I am the Lead...
Shown here is an identical copy of the Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, superconducting nanowire...
Technicians work with a laser measuring system on the X-59 spine. The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology, or QueSST,...
This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a wave structure in Saturn's rings known as the Janus 2:1 spiral...