SpaceX and NASA will hold a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EST today to discuss the latest information about the company’s second cargo mission to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract.
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The Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft was berthed to the International Space Station at 8:56 a.m. EST Sunday. The delivery flight was the second contracted resupply mission by the company under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract.
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NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt around Earth, revealing the existence of unexpected structures and processes within these hazardous regions of space.
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The mayor of Takoma Park, Md., has proclaimed Saturday, March 2, “Space Day in Takoma Park.” NASA’s education program will be on hand to help inspire the next generation of explorers.
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Two X-ray space observatories, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton, have teamed up to measure definitively, for the first time, the spin rate of a black hole with a mass 2 million times that of our sun.
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NASA has selected 24 small satellites to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
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NASA will host a news teleconference at 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Feb. 27, to announce black hole observations from its newest X-ray telescope, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray telescope.
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NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST, Thursday, Feb. 28, to discuss new observations from NASA’s twin Van Allen Probes, which are studying Earth’s radiation belts. The briefing will be held at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Kossiakoff Center, 11100 Johns Hopkins Rd., in Laurel, Md.
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The second SpaceX mission to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract is scheduled to launch Friday, March 1, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA Television coverage begins at 8:30 a.m. EST.
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden toured Friday a cutting-edge facility at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center where high-tech manufacturing is creating parts for a next-generation rocket that will launch astronauts to the most distant destinations ever.
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