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NASA Online Toolkit: Commercial ­se of Satellite Data
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NASA Online Toolkit: Commercial ­se of Satellite Data

While NASA's policy of free and open remote-sensing data has long benefited the scientific community, other government agencies and nonprofit organizations, it...

NASA's Cassini Coverage Lands an Emmy Nomination
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NASA's Cassini Coverage Lands an Emmy Nomination

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences nominated NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, for Outstanding Original Interactive Program for its...

Spinoff 2018 Highlights Space Technology Improving Life on Earth
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Spinoff 2018 Highlights Space Technology Improving Life on Earth

The 2018 edition of NASA's annual Spinoff publication, released Tuesday, features 49 technologies the agency helped create that are used in almost every facet of...

Nasa's Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn
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Nasa's Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn

A thrilling epoch in the exploration of our solar system came to a close today, as NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a fateful plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn...

Nasa Selects Proposals to Study Galaxies, Stars, Planets
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Nasa Selects Proposals to Study Galaxies, Stars, Planets

NASA has selected six astrophysics Explorers Program proposals for concept studies.

Nasa Seeks Industry Ideas For an Advanced Mars Satellite
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Nasa Seeks Industry Ideas For an Advanced Mars Satellite

NASA is soliciting ideas from U.S. industry for designs of a Mars orbiter for potential launch in the 2020s. The satellite would provide advanced communications...

Ceres: Keeping Well-Guarded Secrets For 215 Years
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Ceres: Keeping Well-Guarded Secrets For 215 Years

New Year's Day, 1801, the dawn of the 19th century, was a historic moment for astronomy, and for a space mission called Dawn more than 200 years later.

On Pi Day, How Scientists Use This Number
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On Pi Day, How Scientists Use This Number

If you like numbers, you will love March 14, 2015.

Nasa Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record
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Nasa Long-Lived Mars Opportunity Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of...

Nasa Seeks Proposals For Europa Mission Science Instruments
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Nasa Seeks Proposals For Europa Mission Science Instruments

NASA has issued an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for proposals about science instruments that could be carried aboard a future mission to Jupiter's moon Europa...

Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Exploring Saturn
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Cassini Celebrates 10 Years Exploring Saturn

It has been a decade since a robotic traveler from Earth first soared over rings of ice and fired its engine to fall forever into the embrace of Saturn.

Titan Flybys Test the Talents of Nasa's Cassini Team
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Titan Flybys Test the Talents of Nasa's Cassini Team

As NASA's Cassini spacecraft zooms toward Saturn's smoggy moon Titan for a targeted flyby on June 18, mission scientists are excitedly hoping to repeat a scientific...

Nasa Advanced Technology Phase I Concepts Selected
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Nasa Advanced Technology Phase I Concepts Selected

NASA has selected 12 proposals, including three from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced...

Construction to Begin on 2016 NASA Mars Lander
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Construction to Begin on 2016 NASA Mars Lander

NASA and its international partners now have the go-ahead to begin construction on a new Mars lander, after it completed a successful Mission Critical Design Review...

Nasa Seeks External Concepts For Mission to Oceanic Jovian Moon
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Nasa Seeks External Concepts For Mission to Oceanic Jovian Moon

NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to science and engineering communities for ideas for a mission to Europa that could address fundamental questions...

NASA Hubble Exhibit at National Air and Space Museum
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NASA Hubble Exhibit at National Air and Space Museum

Two instruments that played critical roles in discoveries made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope now are on display in an exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air...

Nasa Responds to California's Evolving Drought
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Nasa Responds to California's Evolving Drought

NASA is partnering with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to develop and apply new technology and products to better manage and monitor the state's...

Decade-Old Rover Adventure Continues on Mars and Earth
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Decade-Old Rover Adventure Continues on Mars and Earth

Eighth graders didn't have Facebook or Twitter to share news back then, in January 2004.

Nasa's Deep Space Network Turns 50
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Nasa's Deep Space Network Turns 50

NASA's Deep Space Network, the world's largest and most powerful communications system for "talking to" spacecraft, will reach a milestone on Dec. 24: the 50th...

Nasa Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help
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Nasa Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help

NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions.
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