Goddard Space Flight Center
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Mission operators working from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are undergoing final adjustments for orbital insertion of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft, due to take place September 21.
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A laser-based instrument set for deployment on the International Space Station will probe the depths of Earth's forests to reveal their 3D architecture in a bid to learn more about the role trees play in the carbon cycle and wider ecosystem.
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NASA has assembled a team to lay the first tentative plans for a successor platform to the Hubble and James Webb telescopes. The project, currently in the study phase, is being assessed for the technological and financial requirements needed to create so advanced a deep space observation platform.
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Control of NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement Core satellite (GPM) has been handed over to the team of engineers who will maintain operational control of the piece of equipment for the remainder of its life in space.
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NASA has launched a high-altitude sounding rocket to capture ultraviolet starlight using a spectrograph, to determine the composition of interstellar dust clouds and their likelihood of being the future birthplace of new stars.
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The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, a joint mission between NASA and JAXA, was launched last Thursday aboard a Japanese H-IIA rocket that blasted off from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center.
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NASA says the results of its Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration’s (LLCD) 30-day test prove that laser communications are practical for space applications at a distance of a quarter of a million miles and that such a system could perform as well, if not better, than any NASA radio system.
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ScienceNASA engineers have developed a technique to grow a layer of carbon nanotubes on 3D components. This allows a super-black coating to be applied to a wider variety of components, in turn enabling spacecraft instruments that are more sensitive without increasing their size.
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NASA scientists have unleashed a new robot named GROVER on the arctic terrain of Greenland to demonstrate that its ability to operate with complete autonomy while collecting data on snow and ice using ground-penetrating radar.
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NASA's solar-powered GROVER will take to Greenland's ice sheet on Friday, where it will spend a month analyzing the accumulation of snow and how this contributes to the ice sheet over time.
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High art met high tech as NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) received an image of the Mona Lisa via laser.
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The gases released by satellites themselves can damage them, so NASA is working on new ways to control or eliminate these emissions.
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