Project News

NASA’s Roman Mission Gears Up for a Torrent of Future Data

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • October 10th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team is exploring ways to support community efforts that will prepare for the deluge of data the mission will return. Recently selected...

Euclid Commissioning

Euclid • September 28th, 2023

Euclid commissioning is looking up. A few issues were found earlier, unsurprising for a space mission with stringent requirements to achieve groud-breaking science goals; all...

SPHEREx Space Telescope Stays Cool in Basement at Caltech

SPHEREx • September 22nd, 2023

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has been tucked inside a custom-built chamber on and off for the past two months undergoing tests to prepare it for its two-year mission in space....

Primary Instrument for NASA’s Roman Completed, Begins Tests

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • September 13th, 2023

A team of engineers and technicians at Ball Aerospace, one of the industry partners for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in...

NASA Begins Integrating ‘Nervous System’ for Roman Space Telescope

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • August 24th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has begun integrating and testing the spacecraft’s electrical cabling, or harness, which enables different parts of the observatory...

Ariel Passes Major Milestone

Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey • August 23rd, 2023

Ariel, the European Space Agency’s next-generation mission to observe the chemical make-up of distant extrasolar planets, has passed a major milestone after successfully...

SPHEREx put to the test in KASI thermal vacuum chamber

SPHEREx • August 22nd, 2023

In this timelapse movie, scientists and engineers can be seen preparing NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope for tests inside a vacuum chamber at Caltech that simulates the...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Gets Final Payload for Moon Water Hunt

Lunar Trailblazer • August 16th, 2023

The spacecraft’s Lunar Thermal Mapper science instrument will work with an imaging spectrometer to help researchers understand the nature of water on the Moon’s surface.

System Level Testing of the SPHEREx Instrument Completed Successfully

SPHEREx • August 3rd, 2023

The SPHEREx team completed the first successful testing of the SPHEREx flight instrument – detector assemblies, telescope, and thermal control system.

New Study Reveals NASA’s Roman Could Find 400 Earth-Mass Rogue Planets

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • July 19th, 2023

New research by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets – worlds that drift through space untethered to a star – far outnumber planets that...