A science team in Antarctica is preparing to loft a balloon-borne instrument to collect information on cosmic rays, high-energy particles from beyond the solar system that enters Earth’s atmosphere every moment of every day. The instrument, called the Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (SuperTIGER), is designed to study rare heavy nuclei, which hold clues about…
A spaceborne lidar instrument that fired more laser pulses than any previous orbiting instrument has ended its operations on the International Space Station, after a successful 33-month mission.
NASA’s Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) lidar provided measurements of the vertical structure of clouds and aerosols, volcanic eruptions, man-made pollution in China and India, smoke from wildfires in…
After ten days of critical testing, NASA has finally achieved major success on its James Webb Space Telescope. The test was conducted in the cryogenic vacuum chamber. In that testing chamber, the satellite went through freezing temperature. On Saturday, the scientists unleashed the 40-ton door of the chamber which ends the critical stage testing of…
