In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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Marshall's Angie Jackman Works to Develop Rocket That Will Bring Mars Samples to Earth
Some 182 million miles separate the red clay of Alabama from the dusty red planet Mars. But groundbreaking flight hardware developed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville will soon close that distance. The new hardware – the Mars Ascent Vehicle, led by Marshall’s Angie Jackman – is an integral component of the Mars Sample Return campaign, a historic endeavor that will retrieve and deliver samples of that faraway alien terrain for intensive study in laboratories on Earth.
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Marshall Women Engineering NASA’s Return to the Moon
In honor of Women’s History Month, NASA celebrates the many contributions women have made to the nation, world, and beyond, including five women at Marshall Space Flight Center who developed flight software that will control the rocket for Artemis missions to the Moon. These engineers developed and tested Space Launch System software that will tell the rocket how to operate for the first eight minutes of the Artemis I mission during its launch and ascent to orbit.
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NASA’s Spinoff Publication Highlights Marshall Technology
Products and services that benefit life on Earth put a new spin on technology developed for space. This includes inventions at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. NASA engineers and scientists often develop new technology during the course of their mission work. And while the origin of the technology is often to help explore the solar system and beyond, NASA’s Technology Transfer program is bringing them back down to Earth by licensing them to companies and entrepreneurs.
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NASA Begins Assembly of Europa Clipper Spacecraft
When it’s fully assembled, NASA’s Europa Clipper will be as large as an SUV with solar arrays long enough to span a basketball court – all the better to help power the spacecraft during its journey to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The assembly effort is already underway in clean rooms at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Now, engineering components and science instruments are beginning to stream in from across the country and Europe.
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NASA’s Psyche Gets Huge Solar Arrays for Trip to Metal-Rich Asteroid
NASA’s Psyche mission is almost ready for its moment in the Sun – a 1.5-billion-mile solar-powered journey to a mysterious, metal-rich asteroid of the same name. Twin solar arrays have been attached to the spacecraft body, unfolded lengthwise, and then restowed. This test brings the craft that much closer to completion before its August launch.
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