NASA selected three companies on Wednesday to perform work to develop Ka-band space relay capability concepts that are compatible with current missions in space, ensuring service continuity for existing spacecraft without requiring modifications to their onboard systems. Through this work, NASA will aim to acquire end-to-end solutions that include space, ground, launch, operations, and integration
NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) guidance, navigation, and control payload completed simulated lunar descent and landing maneuvers Aug. 27. The flight took place
NASA’s Inspiration Tour spread the excitement of space exploration and aeronautical innovation by connecting the public, industry, and academia with the people, technologies, and organizations that drive American leadership in space. At nearly every stop across the country, NASA Space Grant has brought students into the heart of the action. In Iowa, NASA Administrator Jared
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Hippos in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been affected by an anthrax outbreak over the past month.Credit: Evelyn Hockstein/MCT/Tribune News Service via Getty An anthrax outbreak has killed at least 30 hippopotamuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the past month. No cases in people have
Less than an hour’s train ride from central Tokyo, ecologist Kei Uchida walks through glades of mountain cherry trees and meadows filled with susuki grass as tall as an elephant. The researcher smiles when he spots something by the trail: a tangled orb of grass stalks, at about knee height. It is the nest of