Tag: Naval Research Laboratory
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Parker Solar Probe pulls back the veil on Venus’s night side
When flying past Venus in July 2020, Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument, short for Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, detected a bright rim around the edge of the planet that may be nightglow — light emitted by oxygen atoms high in the atmosphere that recombine into molecules in the nightside. The prominent dark feature…
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X-ray communications experiment delivered to space station
NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) instrument and the U.S. military’s Space Test Program-Houston 6 (STP-H6) payload, which carries the X-ray communications experiment, inside the trunk of SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft before launch. Credit: NASA A novel communications experiment developed by NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory has arrived at the International Space Station to prove…
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SpaceX cargo capsule comes back to Earth from space station
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule is released from the International Space Station’s robotic arm Friday. Credit: NASA A commercial Dragon cargo craft launched June 29 departed the International Space Station and returned to Earth on Friday with nearly two tons of cargo and research samples. Operating under commands from mission control, the station’s Canadian-built robotic arm detached…
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Experiment devoted to neutron star research installed on space station
Artist’s concept of a pulsar (blue-white disk in center) pulling in matter from a nearby star (red disk at upper right). The stellar material forms a disk around the pulsar (multicolored ring) before falling on to the surface at the magnetic poles. The pulsar’s intense magnetic field is represented by faint blue outlines surrounding the…
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Cargo manifest for SpaceX’s 10th space station resupply mission
File photo of a Dragon supply ship berthed at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA NOTE: Updated Feb. 17. The 10th dedicated cargo delivery mission by SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, and the first to liftoff from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, will carry more than 5,000 pounds of equipment to the International Space…