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First NASA-Supported Researcher to Fly on Suborbital Rocket

August 28, 2024

Loura Hall

For the first time, a NASA-funded researcher will fly with their experiment on a commercial suborbital rocket. The technology is one of two NASA-supported experiments, also known as payloads, funded by the agency’s Flight Opportunities program that will launch aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket system on a flight test no earlier than Thursday,…
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NASA Opportunities Fuel Growth and Entrepreneurship for Bronco Space Club Students

June 28, 2024

Bailey G. Light

NASA’s public competitions can catalyze big changes – not just for the agency but also for participants. Bronco Space, the CubeSat laboratory at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California, matured more than just space technology as a result of winning funds from NASA’s TechLeap Prize competition. It grew from its roots in a broom…
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Flight Opportunities Program, Game Changing Development Program, Space Technology Mission Directorate, Tech Industry, Tech News

Next Generation NASA Technologies Tested in Flight

June 20, 2024

Marina Guerges

Teams of NASA researchers put their next-generation technologies to the microgravity test in a series of parabolic flights that aim to advance innovations supporting the agency’s space exploration goals.
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Armstrong Flight Research Center, Flight Opportunities Program, Space Technology Mission Directorate, Tech Industry, Tech News

NASA Program Sends University Payloads to Space

June 11, 2024

Dede Dinius

NASA’s Flight Opportunities program sent two university payloads on suborbital flight tests onboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity on June 8 when it launched from Spaceport America in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The payloads carrying scientific research from University of California, Berkeley and Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, align with critical technology needs that NASA has…
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Biological & Physical Sciences, Flight Opportunities Program, Physical Sciences Program, Space Biology Program, Tech Industry, Tech News

Compact Robot Takes Flight to Support CERISS Initiative

March 14, 2024

NASA

NASA’s TechFlights 2023 Selections Advance Space Science in Collaboration with Industry A new robot will be taking flight soon to test its ability to support biological and physical science experiments in microgravity. As one of NASA’s 2023 TechFlights selections, this compact robot will have a chance to fly on a commercial suborbital flight to see…
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NASA Helps Emerging Space Companies ‘Take the Heat’

March 7, 2024

Abby Tabor

Things are heating up in the atmosphere, and NASA is helping space start-ups stay cool. NASA has decades of expertise in creating technology that protects spacecraft from the intense heat generated when entering an atmosphere. As emerging companies develop innovative ways to do business in space, they know where to turn – and the…
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Flight Opportunities Program, Small Spacecraft Technology Program, Space Technology Mission Directorate, Tech Industry, Tech News

NASA Awards Contracts for Flight, Payload Integration Services

March 4, 2024

Tiernan P. Doyle

NASA has selected 15 companies to provide flight and payload integration services to advance technologies and procedures for operating in space, including testing in high-altitude, reduced gravity, or other relevant environments. Examples of payloads include NASA science instruments or technology demonstrations. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity base contract awards are firm-fixed-price with a total combined value of $45…
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Armstrong Flight Research Center, Flight Opportunities Program, Game Changing Development Program, Space Technology Mission Directorate, Tech Industry, Tech News

NASA Selects Winners of Third TechRise Student Challenge

January 24, 2024

Dede Dinius

NASA is announcing 60 winning teams for its third TechRise Student Challenge, a nationwide contest to engage students in technology, science, and space exploration. The student teams will work together to turn their proposed science and technology experiments into reality ahead of NASA-sponsored suborbital flight tests this summer. The challenge opened for submissions in August…
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Armstrong Flight Research Center, Flight Opportunities Program, Game Changing Development Program, Space Technology Mission Directorate, Tech Industry, Tech News

NASA, Partners Continue to Advance Space Tech on Suborbital Flights

December 19, 2023

Cody S. Lydon

Living and working in space requires getting ready a bit closer to Earth. Through a suborbital flight test on Dec. 19, 2023 with industry provider Blue Origin, NASA’s Flight Opportunities program is helping 14 research payloads move one step toward future space missions and commercial applications. The flown technologies aim to address some of the…
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Flight Opportunities Program, Space Technology Mission Directorate, Tech Industry, Tech News

NASA Supports Tests of Dust Sensor to Aid Lunar Landings

October 27, 2023

Loura Hall

University of Central Florida researchers tested an instrument designed to measure the size and speed of surface particles kicked up by the exhaust from a rocket-powered lander on the Moon or Mars. The four tethered flights on Astrobotic’s Xodiac rocket-powered lander took place in Mojave, California, from Sept. 12 through Oct. 4, 2023. Researchers tested…
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Category: Flight Opportunities Program

First NASA-Supported Researcher to Fly on Suborbital Rocket

NASA Opportunities Fuel Growth and Entrepreneurship for Bronco Space Club Students

Next Generation NASA Technologies Tested in Flight

NASA Program Sends University Payloads to Space

Compact Robot Takes Flight to Support CERISS Initiative

NASA Helps Emerging Space Companies ‘Take the Heat’

NASA Awards Contracts for Flight, Payload Integration Services

NASA Selects Winners of Third TechRise Student Challenge

NASA, Partners Continue to Advance Space Tech on Suborbital Flights

NASA Supports Tests of Dust Sensor to Aid Lunar Landings

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