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El Niño Suppresses Pacific Chlorophyll in NASA’s PACE View
June satellite maps show substantially lower chlorophyll across the central equatorial Pacific as weaker trade winds reduced nutrient-rich upwelling.
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Orion Drives Most of NASA’s $4.7 Billion in Major-Project Cost Growth
GAO’s 36-project assessment finds nearly 14 years of cumulative delay, with the crew capsule responsible for almost three-quarters of cumulative overruns.
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Hybrid-Electric Saab 340 Flew Above 30,000 Feet
NASA says the megawatt-class system combined electric motors, a gas turbine and energy storage in a regional-aircraft demonstration.
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NASA Will Chase the Aug. 12 Eclipse With a Jet and 86 Balloons
A WB-57 at 50,000 feet will image the solar corona while student teams in Iceland and Spain measure atmospheric changes before, during and after totality.
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NASA’s CAPSTONE 02 Will Test Autonomous Navigation With Two Lunar Spacecraft
The 2027-targeted demonstration pairs identical small spacecraft for rendezvous, proximity operations, cislunar communications and radiation measurements.
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Chris Williams Returns After 241 Days, 3,856 Orbits and Two Spacewalks
NASA’s first-time astronaut traveled more than 102 million miles while supporting cancer research, materials experiments and station repairs.
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NASA Opened Its First Major New Wind Tunnel in More Than 40 Years
The 20-foot vertical test chamber at Langley can run at 117 mph and handle free-flying models of aircraft, drones and returning space capsules.
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NASA Adds 150-Petabyte Mission Archive to Federal Genesis AI Effort
The agency says the initiative will pair decades of space and Earth data with Department of Energy computing to accelerate engineering and scientific discovery.
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NASA Puts Global Sea-Level Rise at 102.4 Millimeters Since 1993
The July indicator carries ±4.0 millimeters of uncertainty and attributes roughly two-thirds of current rise to melting land ice.
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NASA IXPE Magnetar Data May Show Vacuum Birefringence for First Time
A 140-hour campaign recorded unusually strong X-ray polarization around 1E 1547-5408, offering the clearest evidence yet for a 90-year-old physics prediction.
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Four Lunar Cargo Landers Are Moving From Models to Ground Tests
NASA’s newest update puts Blue Moon Mark 1 past thermal-vacuum testing while Blue Ghost 2, IM-3 and Griffin-1 advance through assembly and environmental work. Flight targets remain plans, not completed deliveries.
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NASA Delivers 3.5-Pound Navigation Receiver for Altus-1 Lunar Relay
NavCube3-mini will test GPS and Galileo navigation near the Moon as NASA builds commercial communications coverage for future South Pole missions.
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NASA PREFIRE Maps Two Full Years of Hidden Heat at Earth’s Poles
Twin CubeSats captured opposite seasonal swings in the Arctic and Antarctic while measuring a major, previously sparse part of Earth’s outgoing energy.
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PUNCH Tracked One Solar Storm to a 30-Minute Arrival Window
The first retrospective test beat the five-hour window NASA associates with current methods. It involved one eruption, and the analysis is still under journal review.
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NASA Sets Roman Space Telescope Launch for Aug. 30
The Falcon Heavy mission will send a 288-megapixel wide-field observatory toward Sun–Earth L2 for surveys of dark energy, exoplanets and the infrared sky.
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NASA TEMPO-Lab Brings Hourly Air-Quality Data Into Teen Research
Thirteen educators tested local pollution investigations and plan to share the free satellite-data tool with about 100 colleagues in three states.
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NASA Sets Three August Spacewalks to Rewire the ISS for More Power—and Its Eventual Exit
The three outings will prepare another power channel for a roll-out solar array, replace a communications antenna and connect systems needed for station operations and its eventual deorbit.
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NOAA Finds Cleaner Urban Air Is Unlocking an Understudied Particle Pathway
Aircraft and satellite measurements suggest falling nitrogen oxides are giving some organic molecules more time to form particle-building compounds.
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Prescribed Burns Made Giant Sequoias Nearly Four Times More Likely to Survive
A NASA-funded analysis of 26,403 trees across 19 groves estimates earlier controlled fire saved roughly 1,800 giant sequoias in 2020 and 2021.
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Robotic Servicer Launches to Extend Satellites in Geosynchronous Orbit
The DARPA-funded vehicle carries NASA-supported robotic arms designed to inspect spacecraft and install mission-extension pods.