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NASA Invests $105 Million in US Small Business Technology Development

Friday, May 14th 2021 09:46 AM

NASA Invests $105 Million in US Small Business Technology Development NASA has a long history of supporting America’s entrepreneurs as they develop technologies from ideas to commercial readiness. The agency’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is furthering that legacy with 140 new Phase II awards to 127 U.S. small businesses that will help them move their innovation...

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample

Thursday, May 13th 2021 10:32 AM

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with an abundance of rocks and dust from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. On Monday, May 10, at 4:23 p.m. EDT the spacecraft fired its main...

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Webb’s Golden Mirror Wings Open One Last Time on Earth

Wednesday, May 12th 2021 01:09 PM

Webb’s Golden Mirror Wings Open One Last Time on Earth For the last time while it is on Earth, the world’s largest and most powerful space science telescope opened its iconic primary mirror. This event marked a key milestone in preparing the observatory for launch later this year. As part of the NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s final tests, the 6.5 meter (21 feet 4 inc...

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Observing from your backyard

Friday, May 14th 2021 09:52 AM

Observing from your backyard Equipment is important. Easy access is key. Sometimes the best observing site is right in your backyard. Here, the author’s scope is set up in the center of a network of paths shoveled in the snow. This makes it exceptionally easy to both access stored equipment and take quick breaks to warm up in the house.   If you’re an avid backyard astronome...

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THIS WEEK'S SKY AT A GLANCE, MAY 7 – 15

Thursday, May 13th 2021 10:46 AM

THIS WEEK'S SKY AT A GLANCE, MAY 7 – 15 Nova Cassiopeiae 2021 unexpectedly shot up to magnitude 5.4 around May 8th — faint naked-eye visibility in a dark sky — eight weeks after its initial outburst to 7th magnitude. It had remained at 7th or 8th during the interim. As of May 13th it had faded a little to magnitude 5.7. See Nova in Cassiopeia Brightens Suddenly, with finder char...

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As NASA’s Voyager 1 Surveys Interstellar Space, Its Density Measurements Are Making Waves

Wednesday, May 12th 2021 12:50 PM

As NASA’s Voyager 1 Surveys Interstellar Space, Its Density Measurements Are Making Waves Until recently, every spacecraft in history had made all of its measurements inside our heliosphere, the magnetic bubble inflated by our Sun. But on August 25, 2012, NASA’s Voyager 1 changed that. As it crossed the heliosphere’s boundary, it became the first human-made object to enter &ndas...

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