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NASA: Artemis inaugural launch ‘simply eye-watering’

HUNTSVILLE -- The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket performed with precision, meeting or exceeding all expectations during its debut launch last month on Artemis...

Really tacky: Lab discovery leads UAH researchers to electricity generator

HUNTSVILLE – A bit of laboratory serendipity led University of Alabama in Huntsville researchers to a simple mechanical way to generate electricity to operate...

Orion flies over Tranquility Base, other landing sites

HOUSTON - The Orion spacecraft continued on the Artemis I mission Tuesday, entering its seventh day. The spacecraft fired all three thruster types with the...

SpaceX lands second contract option for Artemis moon craft

HUNTSVILLE -- NASA has awarded a contract modification to SpaceX for its Starship landing system to meet agency requirements for human exploration of the...

‘An incredible sight:’ Orion on its way to the moon

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Following the launch of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the most powerful rocket in the world, the Orion spacecraft...

Cummings Research Park – where seeds of dreams were planted in cotton fields

HUNTSVILLE -- The idea that if you build it, people will come, is not exclusive to Iowa cornfields. It is also true of North...

UAH researchers recover NASA Arctic, Antarctic flight data

HUNTSVILLE – Historic records dating back to the 1990s of NASA’s P-3 aircraft flights over the Arctic and Antarctic circles were recently found and...

UAH researcher on hurricane drone team that spies boater

HUNTSVILLE – While performing recent drone search and rescue work in the wake of Hurricane Ian in Florida, a team that included a University...

Weather in motion: Baron, Esri join to improve accuracy in forecasting

HUNTSVILLE – Precision is the keyword to predicting and tracking weather, and now a new partnership between Baron Weather Services and the global Esri...

Neutron star behavior ‘a head scratcher’ for Marshall researchers

HUNTSVILLE -- In February, NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observed its first accreting neutron star: Hercules X-1, more than 21,000 light years from...