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  NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Are Joined to Their Booster

  August 24, 2011 — NASA's lunar-bound GRAIL twins were mated to their Delta II launch vehicle at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 17 on Aug. 18, 2011. The 15-mile (25-kilometer) trip from Astrotech ... > full story
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  James Webb Space Telescope Instrument Completes Cryogenic Testing

  August 24, 2011 — A pioneering camera and spectrometer that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has completed cryogenic testing designed to mimic the harsh conditions it will experience in ... > full story
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  NASA Picks Three Proposals for Flight Demonstration

  August 24, 2011 — NASA has selected three proposals, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space ... > full story
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  NASA's WISE Mission Discovers Coolest Class of Stars

  August 24, 2011 — Scientists using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures as cool as the human body. Astronomers hunted ... > full story
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  Cosmic Eye Emerges from Exhaustive Tests in UK Space Lab

  August 19, 2011 — A pioneering camera and spectrometer for the James Webb Space Telescope – the gigantic successor to the Hubble Telescope – has just completed cryogenic testing. This testing subjected the ... > full story
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  Robotic Refueling Module, Soon to Be Relocated to Permanent Space Station Position

  August 17, 2011 — NASA's groundbreaking Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) will reach a key milestone in September when the International Space Station (ISS) robots transfer the module to its permanent home on space ... > full story
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  U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Flight-Tests Autonomous Multi-Target, Multi-User Tracking Capability

  August 17, 2011 — Researchers have shown an autonomous multi-sensor motion-tracking and interrogation system that reduces the workload for analysts by automatically finding moving objects, then presenting ... > full story
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  GRAIL Twin Lunar Probes Launch Less Than One Month Away

  August 12, 2011 — NASA's twin lunar probes -- GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B -- completed their final inspections and were weighed one final time at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Fla., on Tuesday. The ... > full story
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  NASA's Asteroid Photographer Beams Back Science Data

  August 12, 2011 — The Dawn spacecraft has completed a graceful spiral into the first of four planned science orbits during the spacecraft's yearlong visit to Vesta. The spacecraft started taking detailed observations ... > full story
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  NASA's NPP Satellite Completes Comprehensive Testing

  August 8, 2011 — The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project has successfully completed its most comprehensive end-to-end compatibility test of the actual satellite ... > full story

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