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Spotlight on Lessons Learned: System / Facility Impedance Checks

July 18, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

Impedance compatibility problems between test facilities and electronics hardware can result in damage or failure.

Illustration of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is the first aircraft humanity has sent to another planet to attempt powered, controlled flight. Credit: NASA

Podcast Episode 88: Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flights

July 13, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Chief Pilot Håvard Grip discusses the rotorcraft’s history-making flights on the Red Planet.

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The Space Shuttle Challenger, with its seven member crew and battery of scientific experiments aboard, eases its rear landing gear onto the dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, completing STS-51-F. Credit: NASA

This Month in NASA History: STS-51-F

July 12, 2022 // by Kevin Wilcox

Crew recovers from engine shutdown to complete ambitious science objectives.

Space Technology Mission Directorate CKO Alesyn Lowry. Credit: NASA

Knowledge Community Corner: NASA STMD’s Alesyn Lowry

July 7, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

Alesyn Lowry discusses knowledge sharing in NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate.

NASA photographer Desiree Stover shines a light on the Space Environment Simulator's Integration Frame, which was used to enclose and help cryogenic (cold) test the heart of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Integrated Science Instrument Module. Credit: NASA

June 2022 INSIGHT Now Available

June 30, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

Don’t miss the latest issue of INSIGHT, APPEL Knowledge Services’ online publication featuring our new podcasts, columns, articles, lessons learned and more. We invite you to read it today on our website.

This illustration shows a CubeSat scanning and mapping an asteroid. Credit: NASA

Spotlight on Lessons Learned: Open-Source and Commercial Web Software Vulnerabilities

June 30, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

Projects that use commercial web software should take proactive measures to mitigate IT security risks.

This artist's concept shows a black hole with an accretion disk -- a flat structure of material orbiting the black hole -- and a jet of hot gas, called plasma. Using NASA's NuSTAR space telescope and a fast camera called ULTRACAM on the William Herschel Observatory in La Palma, Spain, scientists have been able to measure the distance that particles in jets travel before they "turn on" and become bright sources of light. Credit: NASA

Podcast Episode 87: NuSTAR

June 29, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

NuSTAR Principal Investigator Fiona Harrison discusses NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array.

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The twin 7 ft diameter solar panels that power NASA’s InSight Mars lander, shown here during final testing, are now a dull orange after years on the dusty surface of Mars. Energy production has dropped 90 percent. Credit: NASA

As InSight Winds Down, Discoveries Continue

June 27, 2022 // by Kevin Wilcox

Examination of data from the first seismometer on the surface of Mars just beginning.

A group photo of people in white hard hats. Credit: NASA

Critical Knowledge inSight: Focus on People to Prevent Mistakes and Their Consequences

June 21, 2022 // by INSIGHT Staff

A program/project manager should spend time building relationships and interacting with their team in the work environment.

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