NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:51:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 NASA SPAR Lab shares AI tool for spacecraft https://spacenews.com/nasa-spar-lab-shares-ai-tool-for-spacecraft/ https://spacenews.com/nasa-spar-lab-shares-ai-tool-for-spacecraft/#respond Mon, 23 Sep 2024 20:51:50 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=506294

SAN FRANCISCO – Artificial intelligence promises to make spacecraft increasingly resilient and capable of gathering data without waiting for instructions from ground controllers. “We’ve been limited with the way we’ve […]

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared the newest satellite in its geostationary fleet, GOES-18, operational Jan. 4 and designated it GOES West.

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The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign awarded a contract to Blue Canyon Technologies to provide cubesats for a space mission sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The value of the award was not disclosed.

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]]> 114379 Space weather researchers need detailed impact data https://spacenews.com/space-weather-researchers-need-impact-data/ Fri, 11 Dec 2020 22:24:37 +0000 https://dev-spacenews.pantheonsite.io/?p=109226

Researchers seeking to improve space weather forecasting need detailed information on the impact of previous space weather events on aircraft, power grid and satellite operators, according to a panel of experts speaking at the virtual American Geophysical Union fall meeting.

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]]> 109226 How long should a satellite last: five years, ten years, 15, 30? https://spacenews.com/how-long-should-a-satellite-last/ Thu, 24 May 2018 12:47:15 +0000 http://dev.spacenews.com/?p=77761

PASADENA, California — Satellite manufacturers and operators attending the Space Tech Expo here offered contrasting views on how long satellites should continue to work in orbit. For years, government and […]

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]]> 77761 NASA Builds Sophisticated Earth-observing Microwave Radiometer https://spacenews.com/nasa-builds-sophisticated-earth-observing-microwave-radiometer/ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:31:46 +0000 http://localhost:8888/spaceref/?p=8885

A NASA team delivered in May a sophisticated microwave radiometer specifically designed to overcome the pitfalls that have plagued similar Earth-observing instruments in the past. Literally years in the making, […]

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]]> 489298 NASA Satellite Sees Strong Thunderstorms in Developing Gulf Low https://spacenews.com/nasa-satellite-sees-strong-thunderstorms-in-developing-gulf-low/ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:15:42 +0000 http://localhost:8888/spaceref/?p=8884

NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over low pressure System 91L in the Gulf of Mexico and captured infrared imagery that revealed a lot of uplift and strong thunderstorms in the eastern […]

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