NASAs James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman
The Webb Space Telescope reaches its new house, remembering our fallen heroes, and testing a VIPER in the sand … a few of the stories to inform you about– This Week at NASA!
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— Remembering our fallen heroes.
— The Webb Space Telescope reaches its new house.
— And testing a VIPER in the sand.
… a few of the stories to tell you about– This Week at NASA!
On January 24, our James Webb Space Telescope group commanded the spacecraft to make an organized mid-course correction burn that put it into its final orbit around the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2– Webbs last science destination.
From this vantage point, the telescope will have a wide view of the universes and have the ability to perform optimal science.
It will be several more months before the observatorys systems and optics are prepared to start science operations.
Webb, the worlds biggest, most effective, and a lot of intricate space science telescope ever built, will expose brand-new and unforeseen discoveries and help humankind understand the origins of deep space and our location in it.
On January 27, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other firm authorities went to the Day of Remembrance observance at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
The yearly occasion is one of a number of around the agency in homage to the fallen astronauts of Apollo 1, space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, and other members of the NASA family who lost their lives in assistance of the firms mission of expedition and discovery.
The date likewise marked 55 years considering that the Apollo 1 catastrophe that claimed the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee.
The 3 people want to share with you a few of the experiences that weve had more than the course of keeping in mind back about these 3 crews.
The observance at Arlington was followed by a panel discussion at our Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington, during which Nelson, Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, Associate Administrator Bob Cabana and others showed on how these 3 mishaps have affected the history of American space flight and how NASA approaches safety.
We just recently conducted mobility testing with a prototype of our Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER lunar robotic at our Glenn Research Centers Simulated Lunar Operations Laboratory.
The testing will assist guarantee the rover is ready for its 2023 mission to the Moons South Pole to search for ice and other resources there.
VIPER is among several missions that will be delivered to the Moon as part of our Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, effort to help NASA check out the Moon and prepare for future human missions to the lunar surface.
The latest edition of NASAs Spinoff publication is readily available. The publication, which belongs to our Technology Transfer program, highlights NASA technologies that benefit life in the world in the form of industrial items.
Spinoff 2022 features more than 45 companies using NASA innovation to advance production strategies, cleanse polluted soil, improve weather forecasting, and even tidy the air to slow the spread of infections, consisting of coronavirus.
Print and digital variations of the newest problem of Spinoff are readily available at spinoff.nasa.gov.
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