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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Hardware Highlights: Summer 2023
Every day, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope moves closer to completion. This video highlights some of the important hardware milestones from part of this journey. Components and systems are built separately, tested, and then integrated with larger parts of the…
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescopes Instrument Carrier has arrived at Goddard
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s instrument carrier has been delivered to NASA Goddard. The carrier will house Roman’s Wide Field Instrument and the Coronagraph technology demonstration!
PACE Mission Enlists the U.S. Marine Band for Acoustic Testing Fanfare
As the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission nears the end of its environmental testing, Systems Engineer Gary Davis enlists the help of the United States Marine Band to see if musicians can match the acoustic levels the spacecraft is subjected to in testing.
XRISM Exploring the Hidden X-ray Cosmos
Learn more about XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission), a collaboration between JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and NASA.
Installing The Roman Space Telescope’s Nervous System
The Roman Space Telescope team has begun integrating and testing the spacecraft’s electrical cabling, or harness, which enables different parts of the observatory to communicate with one another.
NASA to Study Effects of Radio Noise on Lunar Science
In February 2024, Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 mission will launch to the Moon’s South Pole as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative …
Landsat Next Defined
Landsat Next is on the horizon—the new mission will not only ensure continuity of the longest space-based record of Earth’s land surface…
NASA’s Laser Communications: To the Space Station and Beyond
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has begun integrating and testing the spacecraft’s electrical cabling, or harness, which enables different parts….
Roman’s Primary Structure Enters the Cleanroom
The primary structure that will serve as the “bones” of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has moved into the big cleanroom at NASA’s Goddard …
PACE’s Instruments Reveal a New Dimension of Atmospheric Info
Two instruments on NASA’s upcoming PACE satellite mission will look at aerosols and clouds – the A and C in the mission’s name, Plankton, Aerosol, Clouds….
NASA’s Mars Mission Shields Up for Tests
Set far away from residents and surrounded by dunes, the Remote Hypervelocity Test Laboratory at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico, has supported every human spaceflight program from …
What’s Up at Wallops?
From sounding rockets to scientific balloons to research aircraft, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia is a unique national asset that has a lot to offer…