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The NASA Space Radiation Laboratory ( NSRL, previously called Booster Applications Facility [3] ), is a heavy ion beamline research facility; part of the Collider-Accelerator Department of Brookhaven National Laboratory, located in Upton, New York on Long Island. Its primary mission is to use ion beams (H + to Bi 83+) to simulate the cosmic ray ...
Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System ( CERES) is an on-going NASA climatological experiment from Earth orbit. [1] [2] The CERES are scientific satellite instruments, part of the NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS), designed to measure both solar-reflected and Earth-emitted radiation from the top of the atmosphere (TOA) to the Earth's ...
The Chandra X-ray Observatory ( CXO ), previously known as the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility ( AXAF ), is a Flagship-class space telescope launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999. Chandra was sensitive to X-ray sources 100 times fainter than any previous X-ray telescope, enabled by the high ...
NASA. / 38.88306°N 77.01639°W / 38.88306; -77.01639. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA; / ˈnæsə /) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
Artemis 1, officially Artemis I [10] and formerly Exploration Mission-1 ( EM-1 ), [11] was an uncrewed Moon-orbiting mission. As the first major spaceflight of NASA 's Artemis program, Artemis 1 marked the agency's return to lunar exploration after the conclusion of the Apollo program five decades earlier. It was the first integrated flight ...
Nicola Justine Fox (born 1968) [2] is the Associate Administrator for NASA 's Science Mission Directorate. Appointed to the position in February 2023, she is therefore NASA's head of science. [3] She previously served as the Director of NASA's Heliophysics Science Division of the Goddard Space Flight Center and in the Applied Physics Laboratory ...
As of March 2024, in-flight accidents have killed 15 astronauts and 4 cosmonauts in five separate incidents. [2] Three of the flights had flown above the Kármán line (edge of space), and one was intended to do so. In each of these accidents the entire crew was killed. As of November 2023, a total of 676 people have flown into space and 19 of ...
The strength of Earth's magnetic field, as of 2020 ( 10−9 T) The South Atlantic Anomaly ( SAA) is an area where Earth 's inner Van Allen radiation belt comes closest to Earth's surface, dipping down to an altitude of 200 kilometres (120 mi). This leads to an increased flux of energetic particles in this region and exposes orbiting satellites ...