A Radiation Tolerant Computer, developed by researchers at Montana State University, is one of the payloads that Firefly ...

When NASA’s unmanned lunar lander launches from Florida next week, it will carry with it a radiation-tolerant computer developed at Montana State University. The computer was created by MSU faculty ...

Onboard computers are critical to space exploration, aiding nearly every spacecraft function from propulsion and navigation ...

The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost." ...

NASA sponsored Entrepreneurs Challenge events in 2020, 2021, and 2023 to identify innovative ideas and technologies from ...

the downed helicopter’s computer regularly transmits avionics and weather data to the Perseverance rover—information that may help human astronauts one day reach Mars. In the meantime, NASA is ...

A team led by a Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) researcher received a two-year, $1.23 million grant from NASA to improve atmosphere and ocean forecasts by incorporating ...

This array of missions from NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin and partners for 2025 reflects a busy year—and a dynamic and collaborative era in space exploration.

However, NASA has learned a lot from Ingenuity’s various record-breaking flights. While the helicopter was built to be affordable while still demanding large amounts of computer power ...

During the Artemis 1 re-entry, more charred material separated from the heat shield than computer models predicted. While the unexpected "liberation" had no impact on the spacecraft — NASA said ...