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  • NASA-Backed Mission Aims to Shed Light on Interstellar Medium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA-Backed Mission Aims to Shed Light on Interstellar Medium

    NASA has picked a potential $40 million science mission that aims to measure emissions from the cosmic material – interstellar medium – that can be found among stars in order to generate data for use in research into the Milky Way galaxy. The Galactic/Extragalactic [Ultralong-Duration Balloon] Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory mission seeks to offer a “complete […] More

  • NASA Finds 1st Exoplanet with Ball Aerospace's Kepler Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Finds 1st Exoplanet with Ball Aerospace’s Kepler Spacecraft

    NASA has discovered the first exoplanet with a repurposed version of the Ball Aerospace-developed Kepler spacecraft. Lead researcher Andrew Vanderburg studied data collected by Kepler in February during a K2 mission test in which the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo’s HARPS-North spectrograph took measurements that confirmed the new find, Ball Aerospace said Thursday. “Kepler may well deliver the first […] More