NASA Flight Opprotunities
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NASA Tests in Simulated Lunar Gravity to Prep Payloads for Moon
The old saying — “Practice makes perfect!” — applies to the Moon too. On Tuesday, NASA gave 17 technologies, instruments, and experiments the chance to practice being on the Moon… without actually going there. Instead, it was a flight test aboard a vehicle adapted to simulate lunar gravity for approximately two minutes. The test began on February 4, 2025, with the 10:00 a.m. CST…
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NASA Selects Winners of Third TechRise Student Challenge
NASA is announcing 60 winning teams for its third TechRise Student Challenge, a nationwide contest to engage students in technology, science, and space exploration. The student teams will work together to turn their proposed science and technology experiments into reality ahead of NASA-sponsored suborbital flight tests this summer. The challenge opened for submissions in August to students in grades six…
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NASA Supports Tests of Dust Sensor to Aid Lunar Landings
A research team from the University of Central Florida recently tested an instrument designed to measure the size and speed of surface particles kicked up by the exhaust from a rocket-powered lander on the Moon or Mars. Supported by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, researchers evaluated the instrument in a series of flight tests on Astrobotic’s Xodiac rocket-powered lander in Mojave, California. When…
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Attending Next-Generation Suborbital (NSRC)? Test your Tech
Working on a lunar or planetary payload? Talk about it with Astrobotic at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC) in Broomfield, CO from 2/27-3/1. Solicitations for NASA Flight Opportunities (a.k.a. “Tech Flights”) will be available soon. Partner with us and we’ll help get your tech to the Moon and beyond! What are NASA Flight Opportunities?NASA’s Flight Opportunities program funds commercial flights on rockets like…
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