AFRL opens extreme computing facility, announces $44M in additional funding
Friday, 18 August 2023 13:14
The Air Force Research Laboratory's, or AFRL, new Extreme Computing Facility at the Information Directorate in Rome, New York, is a vital component to national defense research, and AFRL is using the most cutting-edge Quantum Computing technology available to protect the nation and deliver game-changing technologies to the warfighter.
AFRL's Information Directorate welcomed U.S. Senate Maj Embracing the future we need
Friday, 18 August 2023 13:14
When you picture MIT doctoral students taking small PhD courses together, you probably don't imagine them going on class field trips. But it does happen, sometimes, and one of those trips changed Andy Sun's career.
Today, Sun is a faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a leading global expert on integrating renewable energy into the electric grid. Back in 2007, Sun was an The oldest and fastest evolving moss in the world might not survive climate change
Friday, 18 August 2023 13:14
A 390-million-year-old moss called Takakia lives in some of Earth's most remote places, including the icy cliffs of the Tibetan Plateau. In a decade-long project, a team of scientists climbed some of the tallest peaks in the world to find Takakia, sequence its DNA for the first time, and study how climate change is impacting the moss. Their results, publishing in Cell on August 9, show that Taka Studying rainforests from the skies - radar technology measures biomass
Friday, 18 August 2023 13:14
At present, there are only estimates of how much forest biomass exists worldwide. However, its extent is crucial in order to accurately assess global warming. This information could be used to predict the consequences of climate change and to take appropriate countermeasures. Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) are working on technologies t BAE agrees to buy Ball Aerospace for $5.55 billion
Friday, 18 August 2023 13:14
British military equipment maker BAE Systems announced on Thursday that it had agreed to buy US company Ball Aerospace from the Ball Corporation for about $5.55 billion.
BAE said it hoped to complete the acquisition of the aerospace firm in the first half of 2024, with an anticipated tax credit taking the "underlying economic consideration for the business" to $4.8 billion.
The proposed Global collaboration leads to new discoveries in lightning research
Friday, 18 August 2023 13:14
With operations based out of Tampa, Florida, the ALOFT field campaign logged approximately 60 hours of flight time across Central America and the Caribbean. The team used NASA Armstrong's ER-2 aircraft to fly near thunderclouds as tall as 18 kilometers (10 miles) in altitude in order to measure gamma-ray glows and flashes produced by the electric fields of thunderclouds.
ALOFT is short for NASA Software Catalog Offers Free Programs for Earth Science, More
Friday, 18 August 2023 13:14
Each year, NASA scientists, engineers, and developers create software packages to manage space missions, test spacecraft, and analyze the petabytes of data produced by agency research satellites. As the agency innovates for the benefit of humanity, many of these programs are now downloadable and free of charge through NASA's Software Catalog.
The 2023-2024 Software Catalog contains more th U.S. government warns of foreign intelligence threats to the space industry
Friday, 18 August 2023 12:12
Week in images: 14-18 August 2023
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Week in images: 14-18 August 2023
Discover our week through the lens
Poland signs agreement to fly astronaut on Axiom Space ISS mission
Friday, 18 August 2023 10:29
Japanese SAR company iQPS to launch with Rocket Lab after Virgin Orbit bankruptcy
Thursday, 17 August 2023 21:16
True Anomaly opens spacecraft manufacturing facility in Colorado
Thursday, 17 August 2023 20:26
NASA's tale of two towers: Both Artemis mobile launchers see action
Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:56
NASA's Artemis program has one tower standing and one just getting started.
Mobile launcher 1 (ML-1), which endured some significant damage after its use on the Artemis I mission last November, has been undergoing repairs and enhancements in preparation for its reuse on next year's planned Artemis II flight, the first with humans on board.
NASA stuck the 380-foot-tall structure atop its slow-moving crawler-transporter 2 on Wednesday at Kennedy Space Center to begin its two-day return to Launch Pad 39-B.
ML-1 is the ground structure that holds NASA's powerful Space Launch System rocket, and for Artemis II, NASA has been working to add essential features for the four humans that will be riding in the Orion capsule atop the rocket. It will make its way into the Vehicle Assembly Building for eventual stacking of all the rocket parts early next year.
For now, though, it has work planned at the launch site where NASA's Exploration Ground Systems team will perform tests and work on upgrades for both the launcher and the launch pad. That includes a launch day demonstration for the Artemis II crew of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen as well as NASA's closeout crew and the rescue team.