https://spacewatch.global/tag/science-mission-directorate/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:30:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/science-mission-directorate/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2025/01/parker-solar-probe-returns-healthy-data-after-solar-fly-by/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=63225 Eight days after its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun’s surface on December. 24, 2024, NASA has confirmed its Parker Solar Probe's systems and science instruments are healthy and operating normally, including collecting science data as it swung around the star.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2023/09/nasa-completes-last-osiris-rex-test/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 06:00:14 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=50812 A NASA team in Utah’s West Desert is in the final stages of preparing for the arrival of the first U.S. asteroid sample. A mock-up of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample capsule was dropped on Wednesday from an aircraft and landed at the drop zone at the Department of Defence’s Utah Test and Training Range in the desert outside Salt Lake City. ]]>