In Case You Missed It: A Weekly Summary of Top Content from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center
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Shake and Bake: NASA’s Psyche Is Tested in Spacelike Conditions
To prepare for its launch in August, the Psyche spacecraft was tested to ensure it can operate in the extreme conditions it will face on its trip to a metal-rich asteroid. Learn more about the mission, which is part of NASA’s Discovery Program managed by the Planetary Missions Program Office at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
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Hubble Finds a Planet Forming in an Unconventional Way
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an "intense and violent process." This discovery supports a long-debated theory for how planets like Jupiter form, called "disk instability."
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Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument Cooldown Continues
The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and other James Webb Space Telescope instruments have been cooling by radiating their thermal energy into the dark of space for the bulk of the last three months. The near-infrared instruments will operate at about 34 to 39 kelvins, cooling passively. But MIRI’s detectors will need to get a lot colder still, to be able to detect longer wavelength photons.
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Commercial Research Expands Aboard the International Space Station
As NASA sets its sights once again on the Moon and eventually on Mars, low-Earth orbit is playing an even more critical role for achieving humanity’s ambitions in outer space. NASA has long supported commercial research aboard International Space Station. Explore recent and upcoming commercial research aboard the orbiting laboratory.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Team Honored
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission team received the 2022 John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration. The award recognizes the team's accomplishments in space exploration and discoveries made at asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx is the third mission in NASA's New Frontiers Program, managed by Marshall’s Planetary Missions Program Office.
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