In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Week of June 25 – June 29, 2018
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NASA Tests Solar Sail for Exploration Mission-1 CubeSat
NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite the size of a shoebox designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a successful deployment test June 28 of the solar sail that will launch on Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1).
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Marshall’s Jennifer Vollmer will Help Support Exploration Mission – 1
SLS Flight Operations Manager Jennifer Vollmer will help support the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System from the Huntsville Operations Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Her team will bring together flight operations teams from Marshall, NASA's Kennedy Space Center, NASA's Johnson Space Center and other locations before and during launch.
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A Black Hole is Born
The spectacular merger of two neutron stars that generated gravitational waves announced last Fall likely did something else: birthed a black hole. This newly spawned black hole would be the lowest mass black hole ever found. A new study analyzed data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory taken after the detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory and gamma rays by NASA’s Fermi mission.
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Deep Space Navigation: Tool Tested as Emergency Navigation Device
A tool that has helped guide sailors across oceans for centuries is now being tested aboard the International Space Station as a potential emergency navigation tool for guiding future spacecraft across the cosmos. The Sextant Navigation investigation tests use of a hand-held sextant aboard the space station.
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