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NASA Flight Tests New ADS-B Device on Ikhana UAS
March 26, 2012 — NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center flew its Ikhana MQ-9 unmanned aircraft with an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, or ADS-B, device, for the first time on March 15. It was the first time ... > full story -
NASA GRAIL Returns First Student-Selected Moon Images
March 22, 2012 — One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera. Fourth grade students from the Emily Dickinson ... > full story -
Dawn Sees New Surface Features on Giant Asteroid Vesta
March 21, 2012 — NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. New images and data highlight the diversity of Vesta's surface and reveal unusual geologic features, ... > full story -
Cassini Sees Saturn Stressing out Enceladus
March 20, 2012 — Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have, for the first time, enabled scientists to correlate the spraying of jets of water vapor from fissures on Saturn's moon Enceladus with the way Saturn's ... > full story -
Robotic Fueling of Unmanned Surface Vessels Tested
March 20, 2012 — Engineers have successfully demonstrate the Rapid Autonomous Fuel Transfer system, designed for the autonomous transfer of fuel to unmanned surface vehicles at ... > full story -
Cosmic Rays Alter Chemistry of Lunar Ice, May Create Building Blocks of Life
March 19, 2012 — Space scientists report they have quantified levels of radiation on the moon's surface from galactic cosmic ray (GCR) bombardment that over time causes chemical changes in water ice and can create ... > full story -
NASA Sub-Scale Solid-Rocket Motor Tests Material for Space Launch System
March 15, 2012 — A sub-scale solid rocket motor designed to mimic NASA's Space Launch System, or SLS, booster design successfully was tested today by engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ... > full story -
Safety Requirements Shape Commercial Crew Designs
March 9, 2012 — NASA's plans for a new generation of commercially owned and operated spacecraft and launches involve meeting a number of goals, none higher than keeping to the agency's high standards for crew ... > full story -
NASA's Goddard, Glenn Centers Look to Lift Space Astronomy out of the Fog
March 13, 2012 — A fogbank is the least useful location for a telescope, yet today's space observatories effectively operate inside one. That's because Venus, Earth and Mars orbit within a vast dust cloud produced by ... > full story -
Robotic Refueling Mission Begins With Space Station Robotics
March 7, 2012 — NASA's highly anticipated Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) began operations on the International Space Station with the Canadian Dextre robot and RRM tools March 7-9, 2012, marking important ... > full story
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