Tag: Goddard Space Flight Center
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NASA Plans Headquarters Relocation as Agency Reorganization Moves Forward
NASA is preparing to relocate its headquarters as part of a broader organizational restructuring effort, with agency officials aiming to identify a new location by the end of 2026. The move comes as the lease on NASA’s current headquarters complex in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to expire in 2028. The agency has occupied the leased…
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Congress Demands NASA Halt Goddard Lab Closures Amid Shutdown, Citing Possible Budget Violations
NASA’s internal restructuring efforts at its Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland have sparked a formal Congressional inquiry, with lawmakers accusing the agency of prematurely implementing elements of President Trump’s 2026 budget proposal before congressional approval. In a letter sent Nov. 10 to Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), ranking member of…
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NASA blames recent Hubble woes on aging hardware
The Hubble Space Telescope, seen from the space shuttle Columbia at the end of a 2002 servicing mission. The observatory’s door is open in this picture. Credit: NASA Hardware problems that cropped up earlier this month on the Hubble Space Telescope, now approaching the 31st anniversary of its launch, are the latest signs the observatory…
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Hubble resumes science observations after software error
The Hubble Space Telescope in the payload bay of space shuttle Atlantis during the last servicing mission in May 2009. Credit: NASA NASA has partially restored the Hubble Space Telescope to science mode after a software error temporarily halted observations, but engineers continue studying a problem that kept the telescope’s aperture door from closing and…
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Scientists release new view from OSIRIS-REx’s asteroid smash and grab
This view from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s navigation camera shows asteroid Bennu as the probe moved in for a sample collection maneuver Oct. 20. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Scientists say the touch and go landing by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on an asteroid last month revealed fresh insights into the structure of loose rocks that may…
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Asteroid samples sealed in OSIRIS-REx return capsule
A camera aboard NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft showed the mission’s sample return capsule closed its heat shield late Wednesday after a robotic arm placed asteroid samples inside for the trip back to Earth. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin A collection chamber that could contain more than 2 pounds of samples gathered from an asteroid in deep…
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OSIRIS-REx begins stowing asteroid sample into return capsule
These images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft were taken Tuesday, Oct. 27, showing the mission’s robotic arm placing the sampling head inside the capsule that will return the asteroid specimens to Earth in 2023. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Working under close supervision from ground controllers more than 200 million miles away, the robotic arm on…
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OSIRIS-REx overflows with asteroid samples after bagging bounty from Bennu
Captured by the spacecraft’s SamCam camera on Oct. 22, 2020, this series of three images shows that the sampler head on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is full of rocks and dust collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu. They show also that some of these particles are slowly escaping the sampler head. Credit: NASA The…
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Scientists thrilled with first look at asteroid sampler in action
The first images beamed back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft after it briefly landed an asteroid buoyed expectations Wednesday that the probe collected enough samples to meet the mission’s minimum requirement for return to Earth. But it will take another week for ground teams to get a reasonably precise estimate of how much…
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Live coverage: OSIRIS-REx makes touch and go landing on asteroid
Live coverage of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from asteroid Bennu and return it to Earth. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”Sample Collection Recap Briefing”] [tabby title=”NASA’s Live Coverage of the Touch And Go Landing”] [tabby title=”Clean Feed of…