Our Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is currently orbiting Earth, slowly tumbling as expected while the team characterizes its boom and sails. You can #SpotTheSail intermittently as it passes overhead using our tool in the #NASA_App. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gPPhtazu
NASA Ames Research Center
Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
Moffett Field, California 113,752 followers
We're NASA's center in Silicon Valley.
About us
NASA's Ames Research Center, one of ten NASA field enters, is located in California's Silicon Valley. For more than 75 years, Ames has led NASA in conducting world-class research and development in aeronautics, exploration technology and science aligned with the center's core capabilities.
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http://www.nasa.gov/ames
External link for NASA Ames Research Center
- Industry
- Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Moffett Field, California
- Type
- Government Agency
- Founded
- 1939
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NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, California 94035, US
Employees at NASA Ames Research Center
Updates
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Earlier this week, NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free, Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails, and Director of Cross-Agency Strategy John Keefe, toured some of the world-class facilities at our Silicon Valley center. Learn more about their visit: https://lnkd.in/gvn65XQh
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Watch team members celebrate deployment of the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft’s massive 860 square foot sail in space from inside mission control. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gPH6_pQq
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Our Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has successfully unfurled its sail! The spacecraft will use sunlight for propulsion as it orbits Earth, testing next-generation technologies that will help enable future exploration missions at the Moon and beyond. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gPH6_pQq
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Mission managers are analyzing deployment efforts of the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System. See more at: https://lnkd.in/gjUm3ujt
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NASA is seeking input from American companies for ways to use Astrobee free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station to help advance robotics in low Earth orbit for scientific and exploration value. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g7pAeRZp
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In the future, commercial companies could have authorization to fly a drone beyond a pilot’s line of sight. NASA is working to support a safe airspace by gathering information on what special considerations need to be made for emergency response drone operations alongside these commercial drone flights. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gBZuxStr
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Today, NASA issued a Request for Information to hear from American companies and institutions about what science they could accomplish and how they might conduct a mission using the agency's VIPER Moon rover. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gykczNTy
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We have a new way to track and measure river flow using a small, piloted drone featuring thermal and visible cameras, a laser to measure altitude, navigation sensors, an onboard computer, and a wireless communications system. Learn how the project was recently tested on the Sacramento River in Northern California: https://lnkd.in/g5SAuy97
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We’ll be hosting supercomputing resources for the University of California, Berkeley as part of our expanding partnership with the university, complementing the proposed Berkeley Space Center coming to NASA Research Park. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gP5Viv_Z