The media is invited to NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Friday, July 31, to attend a press tour and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Flight Dynamics Research Center, the agency’s first new wind tunnel in more than 40 years. The event will include a brief media availability with: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman Dr.
Following liftoff from Cape Canaveral on July 21 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Robotic Mission Vehicle (MRV) hosting the NASA-backed Robotic Geosynchronous Satellite Servicing (RSGS) payload is now en route to geosynchronous Earth orbit, where it will use its advanced robotics to service spacecraft. RSGS leverages NASA’s space robotics expertise, aligned with the
This map represents data captured by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, indicating the heat rising just below the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io. While infrared instruments measure the temperature of the moon’s surface, the MWR’s lower frequency microwave channels (0.6 and 1.25 gigahertz) can penetrate 6 to 20 feet (2 to 6
This graphic illustrates the areas of Jupiter’s moon Io sampled by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during two close flybys. The superimposed black lines show the instrument’s footprints during Perijove 57 on December 30, 2023, when the spacecraft primarily mapped the Northern Hemisphere. The blue lines represent Perijove 58 on February
NASA supports the Genesis Mission, a national effort to advance the use of artificial intelligence to address complex scientific and engineering challenges to advance a new era of discovery. President Donald J. Trump issued the Executive Order “Launch the Genesis Mission” on November 24, 2025, creating a national mission to harness artificial intelligence to accelerate
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