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It's been more than 50 years since humans set foot on the Moon. That could soon change: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Artemis II mission, scheduled for 2025, will send astronauts around it, with future missions planned to actually land on the surface. Why has it taken so long? This story digs into the many factors at play: funding for NASA is dramatically lower than it used to be, making annual budget for the missions tighter; safety standards have improved, meaning engineers must work harder to simulate possible scenarios and perform more tests; technologies have become more complex, making manufacturing and design more difficult; and we’re no longer in a Cold War-fueled space race, so there is less urgency. All told, it’s a combination of factors that have dramatically slowed NASA down. And, as the article points out, other public and government infrastructure projects around the U.S., from refurbishing subways to the construction of aircraft carriers, face many of the same problems. Read our latest newsletter for more. Image credit: Scientific American https://lnkd.in/eNJTcHGT

Great salespeople learn problems before ever talking about their solutions. This report lays out 7 key challenges faced by the NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration... 🚀 Challenge 1: Returning Humans to the Moon 🚀 Challenge 2: Improving Management of Major Programs and Projects 🚀 Challenge 3: Sustaining a Human Presence in Low Earth Orbit 🚀 Challenge 4: Maturing Information Technology Management and Security 🚀 Challenge 5: Improving Oversight and Management of Contracts, Grants, and Cooperative Agreements 🚀 Challenge 6: Attracting & Retaining a Highly Skilled & Diverse Workforce 🚀 Challenge 7: Addressing NASA's Outdated Infrastructure and Facilities These issues are long-standing, difficult challenges central to NASA’s core missions and likely will remain top challenges for years to come. 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 Each challenge begins with "Why This is a Challenge" then recaps "Progress in Addressing the Challenge" and finally ends with "Work Remaining to Address Challenge". Take the time to read these challenges before you ever suggest you want to support the NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA wants to buy from those they know care, and when you've taken the time to understand their challenges, you show NASA you care. ___________________________________ 🔥 Join 14,254 others and subscribe to our GovCon newsletter | https://lnkd.in/es6qfwgk 👀 Follow me (Neil McDonnell) on LinkedIn and hit the 🔔 on my profile to see more government contracting content like 28,035 other people do.

📚 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 🛰️ the recent repair of the Voyager 1 space probe is a testament on that. In order to assess what amazing work the people at the NASA actually did, we need some perspective here. 1️⃣ The Voyage 1 space probe started into space on September 5, 1977. So, 47 years by now. 2️⃣ The probe is currently 24,876,880,418 (yes, 24 BILLION) kilometers away from Earth. This is around 166 times the distance from Earth to the Sun. 3️⃣ It takes around 23 hours for the light to travel from the probe to Earth and vice versa. Communication signals take the same time. 4️⃣ In other words: you need to wait almost 2 days in order to observe, if a certain change has an effect (1 day for sending a signal, another one for receiving a status update). 5️⃣ Communications failed at some point in October of this year. The engineers were able to restore regular function after working on the issue for a month. 🗣️ To quote from the blog post by Nasa which I'll link also in the comments on the functioning of systems outside of their originally intended limits: "𝘛𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮’𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵." 🤔 One shouldn't be thinking, that operating something like this would be possible without high-quality documentation. When I get asked by customers, if they should document something, my default answer is practically: yes. 😉 Now, this should be not confused with providing conflicting statements in multiple places in your documentation. This is of course also party of your quality assurance. NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Eric Berger's new book (great excerpt by Ars Technica) gets to how deep the problem is inside NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Phil McAlister is a national hero and kudos to William. Gerstenmaier for doing the right thing. I love our national space agency, but the group-think by the old guard at NASA is a problem. China is coming. The only way to beat China is to better leverage commercial entrepreneurs. We can't beat China by beating them at being better at socialism (big government programs). NASA needs to be doubling down on commercial partnerships. Instead NASA is like a deer in the headlights. We need a new generation of leadership at NASA that has conviction on commercial partnerships is needed. This is not a nice-to-have ... it is critical to our long-term national security. https://lnkd.in/eCPSEgpp

This is a great news for All users of high-resolution #Satellite data for #EarthSystem studies & applications, from both Planet & NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration   Communities & and well beyond internationally, because #PublicPrivatePartnerships are recognised globally as a key way forward to accelerate and make sure more & more #EarthObservation enter our every day life powering a #GreenEconomy that protects and cares for #PeopleandPlanet. Are you keen to know more on how public purchases of data can be done in a #WinWinWin scenarios for both companies, public entities, and society? Then please consult these important documents prepared by the latest #CGMS on the « CGMS best practices on relationship with the private sector on commercial data purchases » (endorsed by CGMS-52 plenary, in June 2024) 👉 https://lnkd.in/ePu426Xj The World Meteorological Organization is keen to support data sharing as the quality of #WeatherForecasting & #EnvironmentalMonitoring are both crucially related to the amount of data available for #Modelling & #Verification. The #WMO strong support is via dedicated infrastructure & service coordination so that data can become accessible to largest amount of users and in an interoperable manner under the #WIS2 platform in observance to the #WMO #UnifiedDataPolicy 👉 https://lnkd.in/esZSdfAh Shared with Planet GHGSAT Carbon Mapper MethaneSAT Environmental Defense Fund CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites) #CGMS European Space Agency - ESA  EUMETSAT NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency  ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization INPE EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme #EW4All #GBON #G3W

We’re constantly verifying our data. A new study with authors from around NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and partner organizations confirms the data in the GISTEMP record are highly accurate. The study provided a rigorous accounting of uncertainty within the GISTEMP record. Uncertainty in science is important to understand, so we can maintain an accurate record despite imperfect instrumentation, the occasional pocket of missing data, and changes in collection methods. Read more about this research and how this summer stacked up in our temperature record: https://lnkd.in/eUUfV-Gn

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Crucially important evaluation here of the GISTEMP temperature record by a strong team across NASA and partners that confirms high confidence in the data supported w/careful uncertainty assessment - In addition to supporting long-established GISTEMP applications, this evaluation will speed expanded use of the data record in ML training sets where clean, high-confidence, and well-characterized data are essential for improving the fast-evolving data-driven models. A very helpful product!