The Ames Research Center (ARC), a major NASA research facility in California's Silicon Valley, plays a crucial role in many NASA missions. As one of NASA's ten field centers, Ames conducts research and develops technologies for space exploration, aeronautics, and information technology. It is a leader in astrobiology, small satellites, robotic lunar exploration, and the search for habitable planets, contributing to missions like Kepler and SOFIA. NASA Ames also develops advanced supercomputing, intelligent systems, and thermal protection for various space programs.
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The ACS3 technology demonstration is managed and funded by NASA’s Small Spacecraft Technology program at Ames Research Center.
The ACS3 technology demonstration is managed and funded by NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology program at Ames Research Center.
ACS3 was designed and built at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, and the technology demonstration is managed and funded by the Small Spacecraft Technology program at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
Lynn Rothschild at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California received a 2024 NIAC Phase I grant for Detoxifying Mars: The Biocatalytic Elimination of Omnipresent Perchlorates.
Ames Research Center signed agreements with five major U.S. airlines to continue developing decision-making tools for more efficient air traffic management.
Rocket Lab is receiving a thermal protection system for the Venus probe from NASA’s Ames Research Center with delivery expected by the end of the year.
NASA’s Ames Research Center features the world’s largest wind tunnel capable of simulating gusts up to 100 knots.
The University of California, Berkeley and the NASA Ames Research Center unveiled plans on 2023-10-16 for a $2,000,000,000 Berkeley Space Center in Mountain View, California.
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, won first place in the 3D Printing Award at the college level in NASA’s 2023 Student Launch challenge.
NASA’s Ames Research Center developed and manages the PTD-3 program and mission.
Edward Balaban of NASA’s Ames Research Center received a 2023 NIAC Phase I grant for 'Fluidic Telescope: Enabling the Next Generation of Large Space Observatories'.
Canopy Aerospace learned about thermal protection system technology developed at NASA Ames Research Center through FedTech.
NASA Ames Research Center contracted AST for a 12U bus to carry NASA’s ACS3 payload into low Earth orbit.
Technology Education Satellite (TechEdSat) 13 is a three-unit cubesat sponsored by the NASA Ames Research Center to test several advanced technologies.
NASA Ames Research Center's Starling program and NASA Glenn Research Center's SKOUT program have adopted CesiumAstro's technology.
On 2021-10-13, NASA’s Ames Research Center targeted 2022-03-01 for the launch of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft.
CesiumAstro manufactured and shipped a compact inter-satellite link communication system to NASA’s Ames Research Center to test mobile networking technologies within swarm missions.
CesiumAstro completed shipment of a compact inter-satellite link communication system to NASA’s Ames Research Center to support testing of mobile networking technologies for swarm missions.
VIPER is based on the Resource Prospector mission concept that had been under development at Ames and was canceled in 2018.
SpaceX tested the revised heat-shield tile change in an arcjet chamber at NASA Ames Research Center and the test produced successful results.