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NASA Parachute Sensor Testing Could Make EPIC Mars Landings

June 27, 2024

Dede Dinius

Landing rovers and helicopters on Mars is a challenge. It’s an even bigger challenge when you don’t have enough information about how the parachutes are enduring strain during the descent to the surface. Researchers at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, are experimenting with readily available, highly elastic sensors that can be fixed…
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NASA Announces New System to Aid Disaster Response

June 13, 2024

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In early May, widespread flooding and landslides occurred in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, leaving thousands of people without food, water, or electricity. In the following days, NASA teams provided data and imagery to help on-the-ground responders understand the disaster’s impacts and deploy aid. Building on this response and similar successes, on…
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NASA’s RASC-AL Competition Selects 2024 Winners

June 13, 2024

Angelique Herring

Out of 14 finalist teams that encompassed collegiate and university representation from across the globe, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University team with their concept, “Project Draupnir,” in the AI-Powered Self-Replicating Probe theme, took home top prize in NASA’s Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition.   The University of Maryland took second…
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Winners Announced in Gateways to Blue Skies Aeronautics Competition

June 3, 2024

Julia L. Bradshaw

The California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, team, with their project titled “Aero-Quake Emergency Response Network,” took first place at the third annual Gateways to Blue Skies Competition. Competing among eight finalist teams that presented their ideas for aviation-related systems for natural disasters, the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona team earned the top award at the…
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NASA Mission Flies Over Arctic to Study Sea Ice Melt Causes

May 31, 2024

Erica McNamee

It’s not just rising air and water temperatures influencing the decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice. Clouds, aerosols, even the bumps and dips on the ice itself can play a role. To explore how these factors interact and impact sea ice melting, NASA is flying two aircraft equipped with scientific instruments over the Arctic Ocean…
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NASA Releases New High-Quality, Near Real-Time Air Quality Data

May 30, 2024

Charles G. Hatfield

NASA has made new data available that can provide air pollution observations at unprecedented resolutions – down to the scale of individual neighborhoods. The near real-time data comes from the agency’s TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution) instrument, which launched last year to improve life on Earth by revolutionizing the way scientists observe air quality…
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Tech Today: Measuring the Buzz, Hum, and Rattle

May 29, 2024

Andrew Wagner

NASA-supported wireless microphone array quickly, cheaply, and accurately maps noise from aircraft, animals, and more.
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NASA’s X-59 Passes Milestone Toward Safe First Flight

May 15, 2024

Lillian Gipson

NASA has taken the next step toward verifying the airworthiness for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft with the completion of a milestone review that will allow it to progress toward flight. A Flight Readiness Review board composed of independent experts from across NASA has completed a study of the X-59 project team’s approach to safety…
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1942: Engine Roars to Life in First Test at Future NASA Glenn

May 8, 2024

Robert S. Arrighi

In a crowded control room on May 8, 1942, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) leaders George Lewis and John Victory pushed a button and spun a crank that activated a massive piston engine in the adjacent test cell of the Engine Propeller Research Building (EPRB). This commenced the first test conducted at the NACA’s…
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Washington State High Schooler Wins 2024 NASA Student Art Contest

April 25, 2024

Julia L. Bradshaw

A 12th grade artist with a passion for NASA and space took home the top prize for the 2024 NASA Student Art Contest, a nationwide competition hosted by NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Esther Lee, of Washington State, was selected as the grand prize winner for her submission “Beyond Imagination,” which depicts a…
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