In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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NASA Solar Sail Mission to Chase Tiny Asteroid After Artemis I Launch
Launching with the Artemis I uncrewed test flight, NASA’s shoebox-size Near-Earth Asteroid Scout will chase down what will become the smallest asteroid ever to be visited by a spacecraft. It will get there by unfurling a solar sail to harness solar radiation for propulsion, making this the agency’s first deep space mission of its kind.
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NASA Conducts 1st RS-25 Engine Test of Year at Stennis Space Center
NASA conducted its first RS-25 engine hot fire test of the new year Jan. 19 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Each test in the series is providing valuable operational data to NASA's lead contractor, Aerojet Rocketdyne, on a variety of new engine components manufactured with state-of-the-art fabrication techniques as the company begins production of new RS-25 engines.
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NASA Offers $1 Million for Innovative Systems to Feed Tomorrow’s Astronauts
As NASA prepares to send astronauts further into the cosmos than ever before, the agency aims to upgrade production of a critical fuel source: food. Giving future explorers the technology to produce nutritious, tasty, and satisfying meals on long-duration space missions will give them the energy required to uncover the great unknown.
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Europa Clipper Mission Dispatch: Tracking the Stars
Europa Clipper will need to know its orientation while traveling from Earth to Jupiter and in orbit around Jupiter. This is critical for the spacecraft to orient the instruments for science observations, and to point its communications antennas to transmit data back to Earth. To accomplish this, it will use the stars.
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Webb Mirror Segment Deployments Complete
Last week, the James Webb Space Telescope team began moving the observatory’s individual mirror segments out of their launch positions. On Jan. 19, Erin Wolf, Webb program manager at Ball Aerospace, discussed the completion of that process.
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