Surfing NASA’s Internet of Animals: Satellites Study Ocean Wildlife Anchoring the boat in a sandbar, research scientist Morgan Gilmour steps into the shallows and is immediately surrounded by sharks. The warm waters around the tropical island act as a reef shark nurse …
Eight CubeSats Lift Off for NASA on Firefly Aerospace Rocket! As part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, Firefly Aerospace launched eight small satellites on July 3 aboard the company’s Alpha rocket. Named “Noise of Summer,” the rocket successfully lifted off …
NASA’s Upgraded Hyperwall Offers Improved Data Visualization In May, the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility, located at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, celebrated the newest generation of its hyperwall system, a wall of LCD …
NASA Prepares for Air Taxi Passenger Comfort Studies A new custom virtual reality flight simulator built by NASA researchers will allow them to explore how passengers experience air taxi rides and collect data that will help designers create new aircraf …
NASA Parachute Sensor Testing Could Make EPIC Mars Landings Landing rovers and helicopters on Mars is a challenge. It’s an even bigger challenge when you don’t have enough information about how the parachutes are enduring strain during the descent to the surfa …
NASA’s ELaNa 43 Prepares for Firefly Aerospace Launch NASA is readying for the launch of several small satellites to space, built with the help of students, educators, and researchers from across the country, as part of the agency’s CubeSat Launch …
NASA CubeSats Loaded for Launch Eight CubeSats that are part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative have been integrated into Firefly Aerospace’s deployment hardware and are ready to be encapsulated into the payload fairing of Firefly’ …