Posts Tagged ‘NASA’
FOXSI-5 mission demonstrates potential of advanced X-ray imaging and rockets for solar physics
The images collected by the FOXSI team over its five flights are demonstrating the effectiveness of their next-generation X-ray optics and proving that sounding rockets have great potential to compliment satellite missions for basic solar science.
Read MoreSSL Spotlight: Davin Larson
By Alan TothJune, 10, 2026 The Space Weather Follow On – Lagrange 1 mission, operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), launched in September of last year, and in January it performed its final burn to enter orbit around the Sun at some 1 million miles from the Earth. The mission was renamed…
Read MoreESCAPADE spacecraft are now flying through Earth’s magnetotail
Launched to Mars in November, NASA’s ESCAPADE probes — operated by UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab — are now testing their instruments in a never-before-visited region of Earth’s magnetic field.
Read MoreCINEMA mission will explore auroras and Earth’s mysterious magnetotail
Much of what we see as auroras near the northern and southern magnetic poles begins as plasma currents in the Earth’s magnetotail. NASA’s CINEMA mission will probe this unexplored region.
Read MoreCarruthers has reached target orbit between Earth and the Sun
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has reached its target orbit at Lagrange Point 1 between the Earth and the Sun.
Read MoreBerkeley scientists reveal how organics emerged in deep freeze of early solar system
Asteroid Bennu material shows organic precursor molecules that may have produced ingredients of life first formed from cryogenic ammonia.
Read MoreESCAPADE sends a selfie
Commissioning of NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft is proceeding smoothly. ESCAPADE snapped this selfie in visible and infrared light.
Read MoreNASA’s ESCAPADE mission to Mars — twin UC Berkeley satellites dubbed Blue and Gold — launched today
After two launch delays because of weather and a solar storm, New Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral at 3:55 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 13. The twin satellites successfully separated from the rocket about 33 minutes after launch.
Read MorePsyche talk embodies spirit of Center for Integrative Planetary Science lecture series
On October 15, Lindy Elkins-Tanton gave a talk on NASA’s Psyche mission as part of a Center for Integrative Planetary Science seminar series.
Read MorePADRE aims to reveal secrets of solar flares
NASA’s PADRE mission will measure hard X-rays emitted during solar flares. It is poised to unlock the secrets of solar flares at a fraction of the cost of previous missions.
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