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Behind the Spacecraft: NASA’s DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test
NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid… on purpose! Our DART mission is a first-of-its-kind Planetary Defense test to change the motion of an asteroid in space so that […]
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Behind the Spacecraft: NASA’s DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test
Behind the Spacecraft: Michelle Chen
NASA’s DART mission will purposely crash a spacecraft into an asteroid to change its orbital period. But in order to hit the mark, this test mission needs to locate its […]
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Behind the Spacecraft: Michelle Chen
Behind the Spacecraft: Kelly Fast
NASA planetary defender Dr. Kelly Fast has a hard and fast rule: “Find asteroids before they find us.” Working in NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, Kelly is helping send a […]
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Behind the Spacecraft: Kelly Fast
Behind the Spacecraft: Andy Rivkin
NASA’s DART mission is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to try to change its motion in space. But how will we know if this test worked? That’s where Johns […]
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Behind the Spacecraft: Andy Rivkin
Behind the Spacecraft: Justyna Surowiec
NASA searches the skies every night to find, track and catalogue near-Earth objects. But what would they do if there were a threat? NASA is launching its first planetary defense […]
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Behind the Spacecraft: Justyna Surowiec
Behind the Spacecraft: Elena Adams
Before NASA’s DART mission slams into an asteroid — in the name of science — it has to be designed, built, launched, and flown. Johns Hopkins APL systems engineer Elena […]
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Behind the Spacecraft: Elena Adams
Balloons on Ice: NASA’s Annual Scientific Balloon Campaign in Antarctica
Learn more about NASA’s Super Pressure Balloon technology and the type of science we fly during our Antarctic campaign.
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Balloons on Ice: NASA’s Annual Scientific Balloon Campaign in Antarctica
Go For Assembly: Building The International Space Station (1997)
An overview of the improvements made on the spacewalking suits and equipment used to assemble the International Space Station (ISS) while in orbit is presented. Details are given on the […]
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Go For Assembly: Building The International Space Station (1997)
The Science of Dragonfly
Dragonfly is a NASA mission to explore the chemistry and habitability of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The fourth mission in the New Frontiers line, Dragonfly will send an autonomously-operated rotorcraft […]
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The Science of Dragonfly
Designing Webb
The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful space telescope ever made – and the most complex one yet designed. Did you know that the telescope’s history stretches back […]
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Designing Webb
Building the Nation’s Newest Weather Satellite
Say you need a new weather satellite. Is it as simple as selecting options and clicking to order? Not quite. Building a vital national asset like the GOES-R spacecraft takes […]
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Building the Nation’s Newest Weather Satellite
Landsat 9: Plays Well With Others
Landsat is not the only satellite orbiting Earth and sending back data. It takes a team of data sets to get the full picture of what’s happening down on the […]
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Landsat 9: Plays Well With Others
Hubble: The Great Space Telescope
This documentary celebrates not only the scientific and technological achievements of this telescope, but also the human spirit that’s helped to keep it up and operational for all these years. […]
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