Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 30, 2015 - Charles Elachi, the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 2001, has announced that he is retiring at the end of June 2016. He will become professor emeritus at the California Institute of
Sussex, UK (SPX) Oct 29, 2015 - A team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex in collaboration with Ultrahaptics have built the world's first sonic tractor beam that can lift and move objects using sound waves.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 29, 2015 - Steel is rising for two towers that will compose a 215-foot-tall structural test stand for NASA's Space Launch System at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The first t
Houston TX (SPX) Oct 29, 2015 - On Earth, blood flows down from a person's brain back toward the heart thanks in part to gravity, but very little is known about how this flow happens in microgravity. Many crew members aboard the I
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 29, 2015 - NASA tested components for an engine that could be used for Mars landers powered with methane, a fuel that has never before propelled a NASA spacecraft. A spectacular blue flame erupted as a r
Durham NH (SPX) Oct 29, 2015 - In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues answer the question of why NASA's Voyager 1, when it became the first probe
Miami (AFP) Oct 28, 2015 - NASA astronaut Scott Kelly will Thursday set a new record for the longest single stretch of time spent in space by an American, with 216 consecutive days at the International Space Station.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 28, 2015 - The International Space Station (ISS) is a unique laboratory enabling advances in science that simply would not be possible on the ground. The new ISS Benefits for Humanity 2015 book highlights some
Miami (AFP) Oct 28, 2015 - Two US astronauts got quite a workout Wednesday during a spacewalk that lasted more than seven hours in order to do upgrades and maintenance at the orbiting International Space Station, NASA said.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 28, 2015 - Where there are people, there are bacteria, even in space. But what kinds of bacteria are present where astronauts live and work? Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Califor
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 28, 2015 - Hall thrusters are advanced electric rocket engines primarily used for station-keeping and attitude control of geosynchronous communication satellites and space probes. Recently, the launch of two s
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 28, 2015 - Optimization problems are everywhere in engineering: Balancing design tradeoffs is an optimization problem, as are scheduling and logistical planning. The theory - and sometimes the implementation -
Denver CO (SPX) Oct 28, 2015 - Lockheed Martin and NASA have completed the majority of Orion's Critical Design Review (CDR) which means the spacecraft's design is mature enough to move into full-scale fabrication, assembly, integ
Decatur AL (SPX) Oct 28, 2015 - A structural test article of the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) for NASA's new deep-space exploration rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), has been completed at United Launch Alliance i
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 27, 2015 - The sixth Vega to be launched from French Guiana has completed its basic assembly at the Spaceport, readying this light-lift vehicle to receive Europe's LISA Pathfinder scientific spacecraft for an
Paris (ESA) Oct 26, 2015 - A rare reentry of a suspected rocket body from a very high orbit next month offers an excellent opportunity to gather data to improve our knowledge of how objects interact with Earth's atmosphere.
