Lost in space: How ’digital twins’ saved NASA’s robots

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...
The Shillong Times

When NASA Sent a Mixtape to the Aliens

In the summer of 1977, while most people were listening to disco and trying to figure out Star Wars, NASA launched two small spacecraft called Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were simple-looking robots ...
Phys.org

NASA begins moon mission plume-surface interaction tests

In March, NASA researchers employed a new camera system to capture data imagery of the interaction between Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost Mission-1 lander's engine plumes and the lunar surface. Through ...
techtimes

NASA Tests 3 Drones in Death Valley to Prepare for Mars Mission and Solve Ingenuity's Issues

NASA has sent over three drones to the famed Death Valley in California for a team to test the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in extreme conditions. The space agency launched this test in hopes of ...
Phys.org

NASA tests drones in Death Valley, preps for Martian sands and skies

When NASA engineers want to test a concept for exploring the Red Planet, they have to find ways to create Mars-like conditions here on Earth. Then they test, tinker, and repeat. That's why a team from ...
KTLA

NASA tests new spacesuits for future moonwalks as Artemis program ramps up

NASA astronauts are now testing a new generation of lunar spacesuits underwater, part of the agency’s long-term preparations for the first Artemis moonwalks in more than 50 years. The underwater ...
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NASA Tests 3D Printed RAMFIRE Rocket Engine Nozzle

NASA's Reactive Additive Manufacturing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (RAMFIRE) project test-fired a 3D-printed engine nozzle at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. See the test in ...
Seeking Alpha

Boeing Starliner missions for NASA scaled back after failed test flight

NASA scaled back its plans for Boeing’s (BA) Starliner capsule, reducing the number of scheduled trips to the International Space Station after last year’s troubled test mission and as the ISS ...
Scientific American

This Mars-Bound Spacecraft Will Test Jared Isaacman’s Vision for NASA

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket just launched a small trial of the kind of space agency envisioned by Jared Isaacman, the tech billionaire and private astronaut whom President Donald Trump has ...
WLOX

NASA’s Artemis program advances with successful RS-25 engine test in Hancock County

HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - NASA and L3Harris Technologies successfully conducted a full-duration hot fire test of a second RS-25 engine at Stennis Space Center in Hancock County. The engine will ...
autoevolution

NASA Tests Space Shuttle Engine That Will Power Moon Mission Five Years in the Future

There has been only one mission of the Artemis program to date, an uncrewed test flight of the Orion spacecraft that was conducted back in 2022. Judging this solely from this perspective, you could be ...
BGR

NASA's X-59 Supersonic Jet Broke The Sound Barrier On Its First Test Flight

The "quiet" supersonic aircraft developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin has completed its first flight in California. Dubbed the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology Aircraft, or Quesst, it is a sleek ...