Examine previous testimonies delivered to the United States Congress by the NASA Office of Inspector General. Explore specific concerns, findings, or recommendations related to oversight, accountability, and transparency shared with the United States Congress. As part of our oversight, we examined NASA’s initiatives to maintain this research facility. Discover cutting-edge technologies developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, a hub of innovation extending its reach beyond space exploration. Moreover, NASA and DARPA’s partnership has been instrumental in advancing space technologies and achieving key milestones in space exploration. Engage with our Strategic Partnerships Office to explore a diverse portfolio of licensable technologies and software innovations. Our strategic partnerships with industry leaders and leading universities drive groundbreaking research and technology transfer, propelling startups into Silicon Valley giants. Regardless of the most recent postponement, Honda fully expects its jet to be a leading contender in the growing small jet market. The technology will very likely see market uptake. For more, see the NASA press release. Now, NASA and DARPA have announced their latest collaboration to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space, which will enable NASA’s crewed missions to Mars.

NASA and DARPA have a long history of collaboration and working together on projects that have enabled their respective missions. Nuclear thermal propulsion technology could be used for future NASA crewed missions to Mars. This technology will enable NASA’s crewed missions to Mars and marks a significant step forward in space exploration. February 28, 2024 The Mars Sample Return Program is one of the most complex, demanding, and ambitious robotic science missions… March 21, 2024 Acting NASA Inspector General George Scott testifies before Congress regarding challenges NASA faces in managing its science… The science team for the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) on NASA’s Aura satellite is finalizing new “Version 6” (V6) data processing algorithms and software. However, to maximize the computing resources available for V6 reprocessing, we will cease processing the incoming data with the older V4 algorithms and software. During that time, we will continue to process incoming MLS data with the current V5 algorithms and software, thus ensuring uninterrupted availability of a uniform MLS dataset encompassing the full mission lifetime. Over the last year, observatories around the world and in space gathered one of the largest sets of comet observations of all time, which should provide fodder for study for years to come.

For the first time, when the scientists sent humans on the moon in 1972, AI was just a far-off dream. The collaboration between NASA and DARPA on nuclear propulsion technology will help drive forward NASA’s goal to send humans to Mars. One of the notable previous collaborations between NASA and DARPA was the Saturn V rocket that took astronauts to the moon for the first time. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) have recently announced a groundbreaking collaboration to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space. The defense test effectively pulled Dimorphos’ orbit slightly closer to Didymos. Another collaboration between the two agencies was the in-space servicing project that focused on refuelling and repairing satellites while they were still in orbit. It has successfully left Earth orbit with a nominal second stage burn. Rosenberg, Zach. “Delta second stage chosen as SLS interim” Archived 27 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine. NASA. August 3, 2011. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2016. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. In accordance with the Inspector General Act, we conduct objective oversight of NASA programs and operations and independently report to the Administrator, Congress, and the public to further the Agency’s accomplishment of its mission.

Figure 1: Artist concept of Demonstration for Rocket to Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) spacecraft, which will demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine. The partnership will be through the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program. Reprocessing of the entire (19-year-to-date) MLS record with the V6 software will take approximately two years, completing in mid-2026. Fusion take on your project. The European Space Agency Hera mission to the Didymos/Dimorphos asteroid system to visit the impact site of the DART mission launched on 07 October at 14:52 UT (10:52 a.m. Our Work. Our Impact. One wonders would there be anything to see other than the connection facilities on the chip? There might only be a connection and a heat sink to be seen. When interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua was seen speeding out of our solar system last October, astronomers knew it was something special. When you return to the Visual Basic Editor, it is in a special debug mode that uses a yellow highlight to show you the line of code that failed. For now, there are rows of folks soldering up circuit boards in assembly line fashion by the millions. All other formats are opened in ASCII format, so if you open say a RTF, you’ll also get a lot of junk characters.