In the News
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- December 22, 2021
- USRA Scientists and Engineers Contribute to NASA's Xray Polarimetry Explorer
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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.
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- August 17, 2021
- Bringing Earth Data to Life
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Ms. Tondapu's work featured in an article on the NASA Applied Sciences website.
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- April 13, 2021
- Pollution Studies during COVID-19 Lockdown
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View the WIRED article discussing Dr. Gupta's year-long study for pollution in India during the COVID-19 lock down.
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- January 13, 2021
- Magnetar Eruptions in Nearby Galaxies
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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.
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- November 6, 2020
- USRA IRAD FY21 Award
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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.
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- October 30, 2020
- Virtual NASA ARSET Training
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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.
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- October 30, 2020
- Virtual Air Quality Training for the Thai Pollution Control Dept.
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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.
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- May 15, 2020
- MoonBEAM selected for Concept Study
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MoonBEAM selected for a 12-month concept study through the Astrophysics Science SmallSat Studies Call (AS3).
- August 1, 2020
- STI Telework
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Marshall Space Flight Center is currently at a Stage 3 response to COVID-19 which requires mandatory telework.
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- April 21, 2020
- Pollution Levels in Northern India
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Analysis of MODIS data shows how aerosol levels in Northern India are decreasing during the country’s COVID-19 lockdown.