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NASA plans to send a drone to Saturn’s largest moon

June 28, 2019 Comments Off on NASA plans to send a drone to Saturn’s largest moon

This artist's rendering made available by NASA shows multiple views of the Dragonfly dual-quadcopter lander that would take advantage of the atmosphere on Saturn's moon Titan to explore multiple locations, some hundreds of miles apart. On Thursday, June 2u7, 2019, NASA announced it would send the drone to the jovian planet's largest moon. Scientists have long considered Titan an attractive place to study whether it would be capable of supporting microbial life. (NASA via AP)

Get ready to see another world from the eyes of a dragonfly — at least, a robotic one.

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NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowman

January 3, 2019 Comments Off on NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowman

This image made available by NASA on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019 shows images with separate color and detail information, and a composited image of both, showing Ultima Thule, about 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft encountered it on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. (NASA via AP)

A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman.

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Nancy Grace Roman, involved with Hubble telescope, dies

December 28, 2018 Comments Off on Nancy Grace Roman, involved with Hubble telescope, dies

In this rotated and cropped 1999 photo, Astronauts C. Michael Foale (bottom) and Claude Nicollier hover above Discovery's aft cargo bay during their shared space walk to perform servicing tasks on the Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA photo)

Nancy Grace Roman, the first woman to hold an executive position at NASA and who helped with development of the Hubble Space Telescope, has died.

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Md. cloud broker shines for NASA during solar eclipse

August 29, 2017 Comments Off on Md. cloud broker shines for NASA during solar eclipse

InfoZen LLC, a Bethesda cloud broker and provider of information technology services, was involved in supporting nasa.gov during the Aug. 21 solar eclipse, for which NASA said it had record online viewership. InfoZen, NASA and others worked to plan, test, integrate and launch ...

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NASA delays until Wednesday release of artificial clouds above the Maryland coast

May 30, 2017 Comments Off on NASA delays until Wednesday release of artificial clouds above the Maryland coast

UPDATE — NASA says it has delayed until Wednesday morning the release of luminescent clouds above the Mid-Atlantic coast to test a new system to support studies of the ionosphere. The launch of a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket testing a new deployment ...

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UMD, UMBC part of $87.5M NASA research agreement

March 30, 2017 Comments Off on UMD, UMBC part of $87.5M NASA research agreement

The University of Maryland, College Park and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County have been awarded an $87.5 million research agreement through the Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science & Technology, the universities announced Thursday. The contract runs ...

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UMD team gets $1 million from NASA to develop battery

August 18, 2015 Comments Off on UMD team gets $1 million from NASA to develop battery

One thing that no deep-space mission needs is a battery that could burst into flames. But lithium-ion batteries — found in everything from cell phones and laptops and to jumbo jets — can do just that if they fail; just ...

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Triumph for NASA, Hopkins: Spacecraft’s Pluto flyby confirmed

July 14, 2015 Comments Off on Triumph for NASA, Hopkins: Spacecraft’s Pluto flyby confirmed

Members of the New Horizons science team react to seeing the spacecraft's last and sharpest image of Pluto before closest approach later in the day, Tuesday at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft was on track to zoom within 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) of Pluto on Tuesday. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It’s official: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has gotten humanity’s first up-close look at Pluto, The spacecraft sent word of its triumph Tuesday across 3 billion miles to scientists waiting breathlessly back home. Confirmation of mission success ...

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SpaceX flights could save NASA money

January 26, 2015 Comments Off on SpaceX flights could save NASA money

NASA expects to save millions of dollars sending astronauts to the International Space Station, once its commercial crew program starts flying in a couple of years. SpaceX and Boeing said Monday that they are on track to carry out their ...

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Maryland students worked on NASA instrument

January 2, 2015 Comments Off on Maryland students worked on NASA instrument

Three high school graduates from Maryland selected to work on NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Transport System, an instrument built to measure the atmosphere's clouds and particles from space and scheduled to be launched to the International Space Station on Tuesday.

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