NASA Glenn Announces 2025 Drop Tower Challenge Winners - Nineteen teams of students from across the nation in grades 8-12 worked for months in classrooms, labs, basements, and garages for the opportunity to test their projects at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. This spring, the teams’ hard work…
NASA’s DART Mission Deflected an Asteroid – But Unleashed a Swarm of Space Boulders - Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission carried three times more momentum than the spacecraft. This discovery offers valuable new insights for improving future planetary defense strategies. When NASA’s DART spacecraft struck...
Sierra Space Achieves CMMC 2.0 Certification with Zero Findings - Our team has successfully completed the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 assessment with zero findings. This significant milestone emphasizes our unwavering commitment to cybersecurity… Continue Reading Sierra Space Achieves CMMC 2.0 Certification with Zero Findings
Curiosity Blog, Sols 4600-4601: Up and Over the Sand Covered Ramp - Written by Sharon Wilson Purdy, Planetary Geologist at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Earth planning date: Monday, July 14, 2025 The Curiosity rover continues to navigate through the region of Mount Sharp characterized by the boxwork terrain. After…
Sierra Space Awarded Contract by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Sierra Space Will Build Key Spacecraft Components for Docking at International Space Station, including Berthing Mechanism, Connection Hatch, Lighting System, and Pressure Sensor Technologies LOUISVILLE,… Continue Reading Sierra Space Awarded Contract by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Modernized GPS operating system closer to operational integration - The U.S. Space Force’s Space Operations Command accepted a modernized operating system for Global Positioning System, which is designed to maintain resiliency of the constellation and improve positioning, navigation and timing services to meet user demand now and in the future.
Miniature Particle Accelerator Cracks Fermi’s 70-Year-Old Cosmic Ray Mystery - Physicists have recreated the mechanism behind cosmic ray acceleration in a lab for the first time using ultracold atoms and a device no bigger than a human hair. Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in particle physics by using ultracold atoms to demonstrate a new method of acceleration, offering...
NASA’s Parker Probe Just Dived Into the Sun’s Atmosphere and Solved a Fiery Solar Mystery - The ‘helicity barrier’ has been directly confirmed, offering new insights into the heating and formation of the solar wind. Scientists have long been puzzled by an unusual solar mystery: the Sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona, is vastly hotter than the surface below it. Adding to the intrigue,...
“Impossible” Cold Clouds Discovered in Milky Way’s Heart Challenge Astronomical Theories - A surprising discovery at the heart of the Milky Way is forcing scientists to rethink how massive structures called Fermi bubbles formed. Scientists have identified dense pockets of cold gas hidden inside vast, intensely hot clouds known as Fermi bubbles, located at the core of the Milky Way. This discovery...