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Power and Video Grapple Fixture. The Power and Video Grapple Fixture (PVGF) allows for grappling and latching. [4] It has electrical connectors for data, video, and power. [4] The electrical connections are compatible with the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (also known as Canadarm2).
Pleiades (/ ˈ p l aɪ ə d iː z, ˈ p l iː ə-/) is a petascale supercomputer housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at NASA's Ames Research Center located at Moffett Field near Mountain View, California. [3] It is maintained by NASA and partners Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly Silicon Graphics International) and Intel.
The advanced Stirling radioisotope generator (ASRG) is a radioisotope power system first developed at NASA's Glenn Research Center. It uses a Stirling power conversion technology to convert radioactive-decay heat into electricity for use on spacecraft.
The NASA ICON team unexpectedly lost contact with the spacecraft on 25 November 2022. A fail-safe system, designed to reset the spacecraft computer after 8 days with no receipt of commands from the ground, failed to restore communications after it elapsed on 5 December 2022. [21] On 24 July 2024, NASA formally declared that the mission had ...
Space laser communications technology has the potential to provide 10 to 100 times higher data rates than traditional radio frequency systems for the same mass and power. Alternatively, numerous NASA studies have shown that a laser communications system will use less mass and power than a radio frequency system for the same data rate. [8]
The processor and software direct data to and from the instruments, to the solid-state memory core, and to the radio system which can send data back to Earth and receive commands. [10] The computer also controls the pointing and movement of the spacecraft, taking in sensor data from the gyroscopes and star tracker , and sending the necessary ...
After the 2003 Columbia disaster, NASA decided to reduce shuttle flights and retire the remaining shuttles by 2010. A number of flights were removed from the remaining manifest, including the flight for AMS-02. [20] In 2006, NASA studied alternative ways of delivering AMS-02 to the space station, but they all proved to be too expensive. [33]
Harmony is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Its deployment expanded the Space Station, allowing it to grow from the size of a three-bedroom house, to the space equivalent of a typical five-bedroom house, once the Japanese Kibō and European Columbus laboratories are attached.