Developing Next-Gen Launch Vehicles
With the retirement of the Space Shuttle, a new Space Launch System capable of carrying large payloads into orbit will be key to continuing NASA's science and exploration missions.
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The "Right Stuff" at the Right Time
A confluence of skills, resources, and timing has put NAS modeling and simulation experts at the forefront of safety analysis for shuttle missions over the last seven years.
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Getting to the Heart of the Storm
Researchers running a high-resolution global climate model on NASA's Pleiades and Discover supercomputers have made remarkable progress with some of hurricane prediction's thorniest problems.
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Turning Down the Noise
NASA scientists and engineers are working toward a day when living near an airport will no longer mean being disturbed by the whine of jets overhead.
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Latest News & Highlights
Kepler Mission Discovers First Earth-size Planets Beyond Our Solar System
12.20.2011 – With help from the Pleiades supercomputer and NAS experts, scientists have validated the discovery of two new planets, Kepler–20e and Kepler–20f. The discovery is detailed in a paper in Nature, with NAS's Chris Henze as a coauthor. Read More
"Apollo Zone" Digital Image Mosaic and Digital Elevation Model Released
12.13.2011 – NASA Ames' Intelligent Robotics Group has released high-resolution maps covering 18% of the lunar surface—the 3D map processing was performed using NASA's Pleiades supercomputer. Read More
NASA Exhibit Activities at the 2011 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
11.30.2011 – The NASA booth (#1637) will showcase a wide variety of science presentations and cutting-edge, interactive science, technology, and data demonstrations. This year's program will be held Tuesday, December 6 through Friday, December 9. Download program (PDF-966 KB)
NASA Science, Technology Featured at Supercomputing Conference
11.08.2011 – NASA will highlight the vital role of supercomputing in the search for Earth-size planets, understanding the causes of space weather, improving aircraft performance, designing next-generation spacecraft, and much more at the 24th annual Supercomputing 2011 (SC11) conference. NASA@SC11 Website
Upcoming Events
50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition
January 9-12, 2012
Nashville, Tennessee
For 50 years, ASM has brought together aerospace scientists and engineers from around the world to share their ideas and research in a broad array of topics related to aerospace systems. The meeting is built around excellent technical paper presentations, plenary sessions, exhibits, distinguished lectures, and networking opportunities.
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ICCFD 2012 Conference
July 9-13, 2012
Big Island of Hawaii
Abstract submissions are open for the Seventh International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD7) to be held on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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