In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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NASA’s Artemis Program, Stennis Space Center Set Stage for 2020 Testing
All eyes are on south Mississippi with this month’s delivery and installation of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket’s first core stage to NASA’s Stennis Space Center for a milestone Green Run test series prior to its Artemis I flight. The Green Run testing will be the first top-to-bottom integrated testing of the stage’s systems prior to its maiden flight.
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NASA’s Cube Quest Challenge Crowdsources Ideas for Deep Space CubeSats
Pushing the boundaries of space technology, NASA’s first in-space competition invites the public to design, build and launch small satellites capable of advanced operations near and beyond the Moon. The Cube Quest Challenge is part of NASA’s Centennial Challenges Program, managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Meir, Koch Complete Battery Swaps to Upgrade Station Power Systems
Expedition 61 Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Christina Koch of NASA concluded their third spacewalk together. During the six-hour and 58-minute spacewalk, the two astronauts successfully completed the battery upgrade for one channel on one pair of the International Space Station solar arrays.
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IMPACTS: Waiting for Good Snow
In the coming weeks, NASA's IMPACTS campaign will send research planes into East Coast snowstorms to learn about how the storms behave, and above the storms to measure snow clouds. Marshall Earth scientists are in the field with IMPACTS, and instruments developed by Marshall scientists and engineers will measure lighting and precipitation.
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First Commercial Moon Delivery Assignments to Advance Artemis
NASA has finalized the first 16 science experiments and technology demonstrations, ranging from chemistry to communications, to be delivered to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis program. Scheduled to fly next year, the payloads will launch aboard the first two lander deliveries of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.
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