NASA made sole-source award for space station spacesuit - SpaceNews
WASHINGTON — A task order Collins Aerospace received to develop a new spacesuit for the International Space Station was awarded on a sole-source basis, a move NASA says was intended to preserve competition for later phases of the program.
NASA announced Dec. 8 it awarded a $97.2 million task order to Collins to develop a spacesuit that will replace the aging Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) suits used for ISS spacewalks.
NASA's 2023 budget includes funding for moon lander besides Starship | Space
Congress approved $25.384 billion for NASA in its $1.7 trillion omnibus bill passed Dec. 23, including full funding for a second Artemis program moon lander to supplement SpaceX's Starship, according to SpaceNews (opens in new tab) .
The overall allocation, however, is less than the nearly $26 billion White House request put forward in March.
NASA Takes the Sting Out of Cold Weather on Earth By Detailing Winter on Mars - ExtremeTech
Scientists believe that Mars had a more temperate climate billions of years ago, but today it’s a frigid wasteland with a thin atmosphere composed mostly of carbon dioxide. However, there’s enough atmosphere that it does snow during winter.
The shape of snowflakes is a reflection of the conformation of molecules when they freeze. Water forms a hexagonal crystal, so the snowflakes on Earth have six sides. However, the snow on Mars is cubic in shape. That’s a result of the shape of carbon dioxide crystals, which have four sides.
Happy New Year on Mars! NASA rings in Red Planet year 37 | Space
The new year on Mars started today (Dec. 26), NASA said, days after the Perseverance rover set a milestone on the Red Planet by depositing two caches of material that will be used in a future sample return mission.
The first Mars flyby was by Mariner 4 on July 14, 1965, but for the Red Planet new year scientists start counting from when the planet reached its northern spring equinox in 1955. "An arbitrary point to begin, but it’s useful to have a system," NASA officials wrote on Twitter.
NASA's Out of This World Tech Advancements in 2022 - Nextgov
While NASA's Artemis missions—which aim to return astronauts to the moon and eventually to Mars—may be top of mind for the agency's innovation this year and in the future, NASA explored other innovations in 2022.
NASA is also testing a new robotic arm system —the Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm, or COLDArm, project—that can work in temperatures as low as minus 280 degrees Fahrenheit without a heater.
NASA Rover Photographs 'Discarded Lightsaber' On Mars | KFI AM 640
NASA recently released the picture , which shows the rocky martian surface and on it, a thin, white metal tube with gold embellishments. One side of it looks like a handle and the other side looks as if a beam of light could emerge out of it.
So how will that titanium tube make its way back to our planet? NASA has plans for a future mission that might send a small craft up to Mars to collect the tubes and return them here. There are others to grab as well.
NASA's NEO Surveyor Aims to Spot Potentially Dangerous Near-Earth Objects Before They're a ...
NASA's NEO Surveyor, the world's first space telescope purpose-built for finding and tracking potentially dangerous near-Earth objects (NEOs), has passed its technical review — bringing it a step closer to production and deployment to help protect the planet.
"NEO Surveyor represents the next generation for NASA's ability to quickly detect, track, and characterize potentially hazardous near-Earth objects," explains Lindley Johnson, NASA's planetary defense officer at the organization's Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO).
Cisco Webex wants to help NASA astronauts make video calls from space | TechRadar
Cisco claims it has come away with some new key innovations for Webex after the platform was used in NASA's Artemis 1 (opens in new tab) mission, the Orion spacecraft's 25-day unmanned trip around the moon.
The video conferencing software formed part of Callisto (opens in new tab) , a "technology-demonstration payload" consisting of an Alexa and an iPad running Webex, all housed in a radiation-hardened casing.
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