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Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Proximate Cause of the SMAP Radar Failure
Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Proximate Cause of the SMAP Radar Failure

Testing and investigation identified an unexpected over-voltage condition as the proximate cause of failure of the radar instrument portion of the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission. 

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The sunshield on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, shown here stacked and expanded in a cleanroom in the Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, California, will be folded up during launch and deploy in space. Credit: NASA
Webb’s Deployments Most Complex Ever Attempted

Observatory will unfold massive sunshield, mirror in space.

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Jimmy Kenyon in "Critical Knowledge inSight: Asking Good Questions"
Critical Knowledge inSight: Asking Good Questions

Learn to ask good questions to gather important details about a project.

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Podcast Episode 73: James Webb Space Telescope
Podcast Episode 73: James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope Program Director Greg Robinson discusses NASA’s largest and most powerful space science telescope ever constructed.

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With the Orion spacecraft secured atop the powerful Space Launch System, NASA has finished stacking and integrating the components of the Artemis I mission inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center. Credit: NASA
Artemis I Undergoing Final Rounds of Testing

Team preparing massive rocket for wet dress rehearsal.

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At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers tow the space shuttle orbiter Columbia from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). Credit: NASA
This Month in NASA History: Columbia Returns to Space

Crew of STS-2 works through the night on shortened mission.

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Podcast Episode 72: Dawn Mission
Podcast Episode 72: Dawn Mission

NASA’s Marc Rayman discusses the legacy of the Dawn mission to the two most massive bodies in the main asteroid belt.

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Spotlight on Lessons Learned: End-to-End-Redundancy-Analysis
Spotlight on Lessons Learned: End-to-End Redundancy Analysis

Redundancy and failure analysis should extend beyond end items and the subsystem under design and consider potential failure scenarios for all relevant interfacing subsystems. 

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This artist’s illustration depicts the Lucy spacecraft passing one of the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids. Lucy will travel 4 billion miles in 12 years, passing by seven of these asteroids, believed to be remnants from the formation of the planets. Credit: Southwest Research Institute
Pioneering Spacecraft Bound for Jupiter Trojan Asteroids

Lucy will travel ambitious trajectory to examine remnants from the early solar system. 

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