NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists ...

During 2024-2025, helicopter blades optimized for Mars were tested in the Planetary Aeolian Laboratory (PAL) at NASA Ames Research Center as part of the Rotor Optimization for the Advancement of Mars ...

Credit: Varda Space Industries The 120-kilogram capsule utilized a Rocket Lab satellite bus and incorporated a heatshield developed in partnership with NASA’s Ames Research Center. The W-2 ...

NASA's role is to help the commercial space endeavor succeed by providing expertise in thermal protection ... Teams at Ames work with private companies, like Rocket Lab, to turn NASA materials ...

Here is the crew of the NS-31 mission: Aisha Bowe is a former aerospace engineer at the NASA Ames Research Center and the chief executive officer of STEMBoard, an engineering firm that provides ...

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), in collaboration with the University of Oxford, Imperial College London and the BC Materials research center in the Basque Country, has developed an innovative ...

multi-scale simulations of material behavior in extreme environments, ceramic-matrix composites, and thermal protection materials and systems. He is dedicated to addressing scientific and ...

Four Starling “technology demonstration” spacecraft will be launched into low earth orbit on July 17. Courtesy NASA Ames. About the size of two stacked cereal boxes and weighing 12 kilograms each, ...

On any given day, the NASA Ames’s main supercomputer, with its 250,000 processors, is churning away at complex models to inspect a constellation of research. Its computer simulators test every inch of ...

Appropriate thermal protection of the newborn prevents hypothermia ... 74 The heat source is a pouch-containing phase change material, which keeps its temperature relatively constant over an ...