In the News

December 22, 2021
USRA Scientists and Engineers Contribute to NASA's Xray Polarimetry Explorer: NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) launched successfully on December 9, 2021 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was a “picture perfect” launch, according to Principal Investigator Dr. Martin Weisskopf of the NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, with the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket performing nominally and nature providing ideal weather conditions.

August 17, 2021
Bringing Earth Data to Life: Ms. Tondapu's work featured in an article on the NASA Applied Sciences website.

April 13, 2021
Pollution Studies during COVID-19 Lockdown: View the WIRED article discussing Dr. Gupta's year-long study for pollution in India during the COVID-19 lock down.

January 13, 2021
Magnetar Eruptions in Nearby Galaxies: Dr. Oliver Roberts was part of a large international effort that recently published results on an intriguing high-energy transient called GRB 200415A, which was detected on April 15th last year by the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor on the International Space Station and the Interplanetary Network of satellites.

November 6, 2020
USRA IRAD FY21 Award: Dr. Corinne Fletcher (PI) and Dr. Adam Goldstein (Co-I) were awarded an FY21 USRA IRAD to provide publicly available standardized toolkit for determining and improving the location of gamma-ray transients on the sky using multiple instruments in various orbits.

October 30, 2020
Virtual NASA ARSET Training: Dr. Pawan Gupta, along with others on the NASA ARSET team, recently completed an advanced online training titled MODIS to VIIRS Transition for Air Quality Applications.

October 30, 2020
Virtual Air Quality Training for the Thai Pollution Control Dept.: Pawan Gupta (USRA/MSFC) delivered a virtual training in August 2020 to the Thai Pollution Control Department (PCD) and Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Agency (GISTDA) on Satellite Remote Sensing for Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting.

May 15, 2020
MoonBEAM selected for Concept Study: MoonBEAM selected for a 12-month concept study through the Astrophysics Science SmallSat Studies Call (AS3).

August 1, 2020
STI Telework: Marshall Space Flight Center is currently at a Stage 3 response to COVID-19 which requires mandatory telework.

April 21, 2020
Pollution Levels in Northern India: Analysis of MODIS data shows how aerosol levels in Northern India are decreasing during the country’s COVID-19 lockdown.