Posted on March 7, 2010, at 6:30 pm .
SPACE FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE
The mission that definitively proved the presence of water on the Moon has been selected as the 2010 recipient of the Space Foundation’s John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration. The Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission will be honored April 12 during the 26th National Space Symposium Opening Ceremony, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Posted on February 15, 2010, at 10:46 am .
A P3 Navy aircraft with Hanger One at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. (Copyright 2008: Douglas Messier)
Obama’s proposed NASA budget is ‘fantastic’ for Ames, officials say
San Jose Mercury News
NASA Ames Deputy Director Lew Braxton gushed over the budget during a press conference Tuesday at Ames, calling it “overwhelmingly positive,” “a wonderful opportunity,” and “absolutely fantastic.”
“We couldn’t have written it better ourselves,” Braxton said….
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Posted on January 6, 2010, at 12:37 pm .
NASA's LADEE spacecraft
SS/L PRESS RELEASE
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications (Nasdaq:LORL) and the leading provider of commercial satellites, today announced that it has been selected to provide a propulsion system to NASA Ames Research Center for the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft. The contract demonstrates NASA’s success in leveraging the capability of commercially proven technology for U.S. Government missions.
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Posted on January 3, 2010, at 3:08 pm .
A P3 Navy aircraft with Hanger One at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. (Copyright 2008: Douglas Messier)
NASA PRESS RELEASE
NASA’s Ames Research Center was launched 70 years ago as a high-speed aeronautics research laboratory as part of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and was named after NACA’s chair, Joseph S. Ames. The center was the second NACA aeronautics research center in the United States.
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Posted on December 15, 2009, at 2:02 pm .
NASA PRESS RELEASE
NASA and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) have signed a joint statement that allows for collaboration in lunar and asteroid science research. The partnership recognizes the Saudi Lunar and Near-Earth Object Science Center as an affiliate partner with the NASA Lunar Science Institute at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.
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Posted on December 12, 2009, at 2:12 pm .
A couple of items about the United Arab Emirates and its efforts to build up a space program.
Speaking at a conference, Saudi Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud – who became the first Arab in orbit aboard the space shuttle in 1985 – praised UAE’s efforts to train its own space scientists and engineers.
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Posted on November 16, 2009, at 5:18 pm .
A P3 Navy aircraft with Hanger One at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.
Developer selected for NASA Research Park
Mountain View Voice
TMG Partners and “The Related Companies” have been selected to be master developers of a unique $1 billion research park at Moffett Field in a partnership with NASA Ames and local universities.
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Posted on November 13, 2009, at 12:48 pm .
The plume created by the LCROSS impact on the moon on Oct. 9. (Credit: NASA)
At a press conference this morning in California, NASA scientists announced that they had discovered a significant amount of water buried under the seemingly dry lunar surface.
Officials at the NASA Ames Research Center revealed preliminary findings from the LCROSS mission, which last month slammed a Centaur upper stage into the Cabeus crater at the moon’s south pole. Measurements of the resulting plume were taken by a trailing vehicle, NASA’s LRO lunar orbiter, and other spacecraft.
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Posted on November 4, 2009, at 3:03 pm .
Kelly Beatty has an update on the LCROSS findings over at Sky & Telescope. NASA scientists are still analyzing data and may announce some preliminary results (including the discovery of water) at the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group meeting in Houston on Nov. 16-19.
For now, let me tantalize you with a preliminary result from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which viewed the Centaur’s demise from nearly overhead and just 48 miles (76 km) up. An instrument dubbed the Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) probed the ultraviolet spectrum of the impact plume after it had risen high enough to be projected against black space above the lunar limb.
Continue reading ‘LCROSS Update: Mercury and Iron Possibly Found in Impact Plume’
Posted on October 19, 2009, at 11:20 am .
CALIFORNIA SPACE AUTHORITY PRESS RELEASE
MOUNTAIN VIEW – Nineteen teams pushed their robotic competitors to the limit and three teams claimed a total of $750,000 in NASA prizes for their hard work and innovation at this year’s Regolith Excavation Challenge held at NASA’s Ames Research Center on Moffett Field.
After two days of intense competitive drama, organizers conferred Paul’s Robotics of Worcester, MA, with the first place title, second went to Terra Engineering of Gardena, CA, and Team Braundo of Rancho Palos Verde, CA, took home third.
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