Featured Story

Up Lifting the Space Mission: Strand Jacks and Hydraulic Jacking Systems

2-minute read
Test Stand 4693

NASA personnel at Marshall Space Flight Center are preparing for a big lift in support of the Artemis Program.

In the coming months, NASA intends to use four strand jacks in unison to lower the test stand’s crosshead, which weighs 1.25 million pounds, or 625 tons, onto Test Stand 4693 with the Exploration Upper Stage test article underneath. 

Read More
Items per page:

Updates to Agency Requirements Accessibility Platform

1-minute read
Image of the word Cradle and the NASA logo

NASA’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance recently released updates to Cradle, the agency’s Safety and Mission Assurance requirements database, to improve user experience.

Read More

New EEE Parts Bulletin Now Available

1-minute read
EEE Parts Bulletin

The most recent EEE Parts Bulletin provides information on activities related to Electrical, Electronic and Electromechanical (EEE) parts that occurred at NASA between January and July 2016.

Read More

NPR 8705.6C Revision Overview

1-minute read
NPR 8705.6

Updates to NPR 8705.6, Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) Audits, Reviews, and Assessments, took effect Jan. 9, 2017. These changes were made to update and streamline the audit process.

Read More

Space Debris Sensor Waiting for Launch

1-minute read
ODQN February 2017

The February 2017 edition of Orbital Debris Quarterly News included the article "Space Debris Sensor Waiting for Launch." Continue reading for the full article. 

Read More

NASA Monitors Perseids to Improve Meteor Forecasting

2-minute read
Perseids

The Perseid meteor shower, which peaks in August of each year, was twice as active in 2016 compared to other years. The Perseids are always a major shower and move at very high speeds, so monitoring is essential for the safety of NASA’s spacecraft as there is great potential for high-energy impacts. Increases in activity, like that seen this year, add additional mission risks.

Read More

Scintillating Quantum Dots May Hold the Key to High-Speed, Low-Cost X-Rays

2-minute read
Scintilating Quantum Dots

Imagine if capturing an X-ray was as fast and simple as taking a digital photo. Now imagine being able to capture high-speed radiography videos with the same relative ease. 

Read More

NID 8000-108 Replaces NPR 8000.4A

3-minute read
NID 8000-108 Hero
Effective Oct. 24, 2016, NID 8000-108, Agency Risk Management Procedural Requirements, replaced NPR 8000.4A, same title, for at least a 12-month period with implementation to begin immediately.
Read More

October Issue of ODQN Now Available

1-minute read
ODQN
The October issue of Orbital Debris Quarterly News is now available, including articles on ASTRO-H spacecraft fragments during payload checkout operations, the new SOZ breakup, the disposal of GOES-3 and more.
Read More

NASA Educates AAQ Community on SMA of SmallSats and CubeSats

1-minute read
SmallSats

Doug Sheldon, Assurance Technology Program Office manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, recently presented to the Academy of Aerospace Quality (ASQ) on the evolution of Safety and Mission Assurance approaches for SmallSat and CubeSat missions. 

Read More

New System Receives and Searches NASA Advisories and GIDEP Notices

3-minute read
NANADARTS

Want to search for NASA Advisories, Government-Industry Data Exchange Program (GIDEP) Notices and other similar documents on your own?

Up until now, if you wanted to search GIDEP, you either needed your own account or had to contact your center GIDEP representative. Now, if you are within the NASA firewall, you can search for GIDEP Notices and NASA Advisories yourself. 

Read More
Items per page: