/rss/ New Frontiers NASA news articles in RSS feed Mon, 20 May 2013 11:29:47 GMT http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=2 The 2012 NASA Spacecraft Fault Management Workshop brings together NASA's Fault Management (FM) community — including project managers, systems and software engineers, researchers, technologists, and FM practitioners — to actively, and collaboratively, address near-term challenges and to develop a long-term vision for the FM discipline. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:00:00 GMT http://discovery-dev.msfc.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=2 http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=3 0 0 1 88 507 lockheed / JPL 4 1 594 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:JA;} OSIRIS-REx will travel to asteroid (101955) 1999 RQ36, study it in detail, grab some soil samples, and return the first ever material from a near-Earth carbonaceous asteroid to Earth. The mission, whose full name is ORIGINS • SPECTRAL INTERPRETATION • RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION • SECURITY • REGOLITH EXPLORER, was selected by NASA as the third investigation in the New Frontiers Program in 2011. It recently released its public website, where you can find much more information about how it will carry out its extraordinary mission.    Mon, 05 Mar 2012 06:00:00 GMT http://discovery-dev.msfc.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=3 http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=4 0 0 1 56 324 lockheed / JPL 2 1 379 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:JA;} As the New Horizons spacecraft keeps zooming toward Pluto, six years since launch and a little more than three years before the first-ever flyby of the ice dwarf planet, the mission’s education and outreach team continues to find cool ways to engage students, teachers and the public with new products and opportunities to get involved. 0 0 1 65 377 lockheed / JPL 3 1 441 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:JA;}   A New Horizons app for the iPad and iPhone lets you follow the mission from your mobile device with the latest news, Twitter feed, current location, countdown to closest approach, and more. While the spacecraft is currently 1,210 days from its closest approach to Pluto, if you were to travel there by car at 55 mph, it would take 1,858 years. Or walking at 3 mph, it would take 33,086 years. Oh yeah, it’s really far out!     Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://discovery-dev.msfc.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=4 http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=5 0 0 2012-04-02T16:35:00Z 2012-04-02T16:35:00Z 1 40 234 lockheed / JPL 1 1 273 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:JA;} The March 2012 issue of the Discovery and New Frontiers News, now in its 13th year of publication, contains the latest updates on the missions and highlights from education and public outreach activities.   The newsletter has photos from the recent San Diego Festival of Science and Engineering Expo Day which featured a NASA booth for the first time. Scientists and educators from many of the D/NF missions brought a wide array of activities that engaged kids and their parents, proving that science is cool! 0 0 2012-04-02T16:35:00Z 2012-04-02T16:35:00Z 1 46 263 lockheed / JPL 2 1 308 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:JA;}   Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://discovery-dev.msfc.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=5 http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=6 0 0 1 112 642 lockheed / JPL 5 1 753 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:JA;} Starting today, a long-term new citizen science project called "Target Asteroids!" is looking for amateur astronomers to support NASA's asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx (short for Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer). OSIRIS-REx is scheduled for launch in 2016.   The mission’s objective is to improve basic scientific understanding of near-Earth objects, or NEOs, which are asteroids with orbits that occasionally bring them close to the Earth. The Target Asteroids! project will enlist the help of amateur astronomers to discover NEOs and study their characteristics.  Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://discovery-dev.msfc.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=6 http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=7 0 0 1 123 704 lockheed / JPL 5 1 826 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:JA;} A team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The discovery increases the number of known moons orbiting Pluto to five.   The new detection will help scientists navigate NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft through the Pluto system in 2015, when it makes an historic and long-awaited high-speed flyby of the distant world.   The team is using Hubble’s powerful vision to scour the Pluto system to uncover potential hazards to the New Horizons spacecraft. Moving past the dwarf planet at a speed of 30,000 miles per hour, New Horizons could be destroyed in a collision with even a BB-shot-size piece of orbital debris.    Wed, 11 Jul 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://discovery-dev.msfc.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=7 http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=8 0 0 1 94 541 lockheed / JPL 4 1 634 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:JA;} Navigators and mission controllers for NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter had all eyes focused on their computers as their spacecraft successfully performed its first deep-space maneuver on Aug. 30. This first firing of Juno's main engine is one of two planned to refine the spacecraft's trajectory, setting the stage for a gravity assist from a flyby of Earth on Oct 9, 2013. Juno will arrive at Jupiter on July 4, 2016.   The Leros-1b main engine was fired for 29 minutes 39 seconds, changing the spacecraft's velocity by about 770 mph while consuming about 829 pounds of fuel. Currently Juno is more than 300 million miles from Earth.    Fri, 31 Aug 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://discovery-dev.msfc.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=8 http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=9 0 0 1 119 684 lockheed / JPL 5 1 802 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:JA;} OSIRIS-REx is a NASA mission that’s going to fly to an asteroid and bring back samples from it. Right now, the asteroid's name is 1999 RQ36. Students – think you can come up with a better name? Here is your chance! The mission’s “Name That Asteroid!” contest is open to kids worldwide under the age of 18. To enter, parents or teachers must fill out an online entry form with the proposed name and a short explanation of why that name is a good choice. Each contestant can submit one name, up to 16 characters long. Enter by December 2, 2012 to have a chance to name a piece of the solar system!   Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://discovery-dev.msfc.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=9 http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=10 The September 2012 issue of the Discovery and New Frontiers News contains the latest updates on the missions and highlights from education and public outreach activities. When did Dawn depart from Vesta and where is it heading now? How many times has MESSENGER circled Mercury? Why did Juno perform not one but two Deep Space Maneuvers? Sun, 30 Sep 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://discovery-dev.msfc.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=10 http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=11 0 0 1 124 709 lockheed / JPL 5 1 832 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:JA;} 0 0 1 132 755 lockheed / JPL 6 1 886 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:JA;} Good news! The entry deadline for The Planetary Society and OSIRIS-REx's Name that Asteroid! contest has been extended. The Planetary Society will now accept entries through December 31, 2012.   The mission’s “Name That Asteroid!” contest is open to kids worldwide under the age of 18. To enter, parents or teachers must fill out an online entry form with the proposed name and a short explanation of why that name is a good choice. Each contestant can submit one name, up to 16 characters long. Enter by December 31, 2012 to have a chance to name a piece of the solar system!   For contest guidelines and rules, visit www.planetary.org. Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:00:00 GMT http://discovery-dev.msfc.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=11 http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=12 0 0 1 141 805 lockheed / JPL 6 1 945 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:JA;} On November 28, the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft passed the halfway point between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, zooming past another milepost on its historic trek to the planetary frontier.   New Horizons, launched in January 2006 and set to visit the Pluto system in July 2015, is the first spacecraft to cross this distant region since NASA’s Voyager probes in the late 1980s.   (As an aside, on December 3 NASA announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, 35 years after launch, has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross before reaching interstellar space, beyond the influence of the Sun – wow! Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object, about 11 billion miles away from the Sun. Its signal takes approximately 17 hours to travel to Earth.)     Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:00:00 GMT http://discovery-dev.msfc.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=12 http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=13 0 0 1 96 551 lockheed / JPL 4 1 646 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:JA;} The asteroid formerly known as (101955) 1999 RQ36 has a new name. The target of NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, the asteroid will now be called “Bennu,” thanks to nine-year-old Michasel Puzio from North Carolina.   Third grader Puzio suggested the name for the carbon-rich asteroid because he imagined the Touch-and-Go Sample Mechanism (TAGSAM) arm and solar panels on OSIRIS-REx look like the neck and wings in drawings of Bennu, which Egyptians usually depicted as a gray heron. He wrote the name suits the asteroid because it means "the ascending one," or "to shine."    Wed, 01 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT http://discovery-dev.msfc.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=13 http://discoverynewfrontiers.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=14 0 0 1 82 470 lockheed / JPL 3 1 551 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-language:JA;} OSIRIS-REx reached a major milestone on May 15 when the asteroid sample return mission passed a confirmation review called Key Decision Point (KDP)-C. NASA officials reviewed a series of detailed project assessments and gave the team the authority to proceed with development and launch in 2016.   OSIRIS-REx, short for the Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer, will rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu in 2018 and return a sample of it to Earth in 2023. Thu, 16 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT http://discovery-dev.msfc.nasa.gov/news/index.cfml?ID=14