Interns from the SCaN Internship Project visiting NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. Credits: NASA For more than a decade, graduates of NASA’s SCaN (Space Communications and Navigation) internship project have played important roles in expanding the agency’s long-term vision for exploration. For National Intern Day on Thursday, July 25, former program interns … Read more
Sierra Space’s LIFE Habitat after a full-scale final burst pressure test at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama Sierra Space An element of a NASA-funded commercial space station, Orbital Reef, under development by Blue Origin and Sierra Space, recently completed a full-scale final blast pressure test as part of the agency’s efforts for … Read more
Information such as forest canopy height can be useful in assessing the health of a forest, but current measurement methods are not always feasible for large geographic regions or adaptable to different forest types. Monitoring from space could be a solution. Forests function as more than a place for a peaceful retreat: trees take in … Read more