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June 2025 INSIGHT Now Available

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

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Podcast Episode 156: A New Era of X-ray Astronomy with IXPE

IXPE, or the Infrared X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, is NASA’s first space telescope dedicated to studying X-ray polarization from extreme objects like black holes and quasars.

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Podcast title graphic with the text that reads #155: Risk Management at NASA. Illustration of Europa Clipper spacecraft above Jupiter's icy moon Europa. The surface is blue and icy. Jupiter, partially lit, looms in the background. The spacecraft reflects the Sun's light. Credit: NASA
Podcast Episode 155: Risk Management at NASA

Big or small, we all take risks nearly every day. But how does NASA manage it? Dr. Mary Skow, NASA’s first agency risk management officer, explains.

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This artist's illustration shows the sky crane maneuver that delivered NASA's Curiosity rover to the surface of Mars in 2012, concluding what is known as the “seven minutes of terror”—the nail-biting descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. Credit: NASA
NASA’s Robust Risk Management Approach Enables Engineers to Address Challenges

Continuous, integrated risk management process enables NASA to develop missions with complex, state-of-the-art engineering systems designed to achieve ambitious science objectives. 

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SPHEREx, an anagram for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, will create a map of the cosmos like no other. Using a technique called spectroscopy to image the entire sky in 102 wavelengths of infrared light, SPHEREx will gather information about the composition of and distance to millions of galaxies and stars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/BAE Systems
May 2025 INSIGHT Now Available

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

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Podcast Episode 154: NASA’s Air Traffic Management-eXploration Project

NASA’s Air Traffic Management-eXploration Project aims to accommodate the growing demand of traditional and emerging aircraft that share the friendly skies. 

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Podcast Episode 153: The Universe in Living Color with SPHEREx

NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory will use 102 color filters to collect data on more than 450 million galaxies along with more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way in order to explore the origins of the universe. It will also study the abundance of water ice and organic molecules throughout the galaxy.

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April 2025 INSIGHT Now Available

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

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Podcast Episode 152: EZIE Does It

What can the auroras tell us about our planet’s relationship with the Sun? NASA’s EZIE mission looks into it. 

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