INSIGHT: November 2021 | APPEL Knowledge Services

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

November 29, 2021 // by INSIGHT Staff

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.

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

November 24, 2021 // by Kevin Wilcox

Observatory will unfold massive sunshield, mirror in space.

Critical Knowledge inSight: Asking Good Questions

November 22, 2021 // by INSIGHT Staff

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

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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

November 15, 2021 // by Kevin Wilcox

Team preparing massive rocket for wet dress rehearsal.

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

November 8, 2021 // by Kevin Wilcox

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