WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — A large inflatable heat shield developed by NASA’s Space Technology Program has successfully survived a trip through Earth’s atmosphere while travelling at hypersonic speeds up to 7,600 mph.
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WASHINGTON — A telescope launched July 11 aboard a NASA sounding rocket has captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun’s million-degree atmosphere called the corona. The clarity of the images can help scientists better understand the behavior of the solar atmosphere and its impacts on Earth’s space environment.
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NASA satellite data has watched cloud temperatures drop in a low pressure system in the western North Pacific Ocean called System 92W
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Marking the 43rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA has added an extensive collection of historical video, audio, photographs and documents to iTunes U.
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A remote-controlled Earth-observing camera system called ISERV will be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s third H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-3) this week.
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On July 14, 2012, the Kepler spacecraft experienced a disruption in science data collection due to a pointing error.
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Since the last update the team has had two science data downlinks.
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NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the State Department and Nike Inc. opened the fourth installment of the LAUNCH initiative Friday.
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Marking the 43rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA has added an extensive collection of historical video, audio, photographs and documents to iTunes U.
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NASA managers are rescheduling the launch of an inflatable heat shield technology demonstration flight from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va., until no earlier than Sunday, July 22.
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