The spaceflight environment presents unique physicochemical conditions, including microgravity, ionizing radiation, altered fluid transport, and confined engineered habitats, which influence biological systems and biomolecular assembly processes.
Pandora is a SmallSat mission dedicated to understanding exoplanets and their host stars by disentangling the impact of stellar heterogeneity on exoplanet transmission spectra.
Venus, our neighboring planet, is an open-air laboratory that can be used to study why Earth and Venus evolved in such different ways.
The Pandora SmallSat is a NASA flight project aimed at studying the atmospheres of exoplanets — planets orbiting stars outside our Solar System. Pandora will provide the first dataset of […]
Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission, is one step closer to launch with the completion of the spacecraft bus, which provides the structure, power, and other systems that will enable the […]
NASA’s Great Observatories Maturation Program (GOMAP) will advance the science definition, technology, and workforce needed for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) with the goal of a Phase A start by […]
BioSentinel was launched as a secondary payload on the space launch system (SLS) Artemis I mission on November 16, 2022, and is currently in a heliocentric orbit at approx. 36 […]
With advancements in low-cost launchers and small interplanetary spacecraft, NASA has recognized the potential of small missions to perform focused planetary science investigations at Mars and Venus.
Tartu, Estonia, 24-31 August 2024
Poised to launch on Artemis I from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, BioSentinel – a shoebox-sized CubeSat – will perform the first long-duration biology experiment in deep space. Artemis […]
