NASA Glenn Research Center

NASA is soliciting proposals for an open-fan flight demonstrator as part of the agency’s technology development plan for next-generation aircraft and subsonic vehicle propulsion systems.

NASA shifts focus to flight research as budget cuts reshape aeronautics priorities, emphasizing X-planes, hypersonics and automated airspace systems.

NASA also floated the idea that the nuclear reactor might be contracted as an “end-to-end service” from development, launch, landing to operations on the Moon.

NASA’s Electric Aircraft Testbed is just one “invaluable resource” for industry at Ohio’s Armstrong Test Facility.

Astrobotic says it has successfully completed flight model acceptance testing of its lunar wireless charging system.

Texas lawmakers are urging President Trump to shift NASA’s Washington, D.C., headquarters to the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Free most recently served as a senior advisor to the administrator.

The Feb. 5 request for information seeks capability statements from interested parties.

Located at the agency’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, NASA’s Electric Aircraft Testbed (NEAT) is available to industry and academia.

MagniX has completed electric engine altitude testing at NASA, with Wright Electric and RTX to follow.

Turner will continue to oversee and provide executive leadership, strategic planning, and overall management of all of NASA’s tech maturation and demo programs.

A HWB has emerged as one of the most promising potential zero-emission airliner concepts from a NASA study of commercially viable designs.

The elements offer greater thrust potential than conventional gas propellants.

NASA developing communications systems to transmit video feeds of astronauts on the Moon during Artemis missions.

The grid would provide long-term support of habitats, rovers and scientific research at the Moon’s south pole.

NASA’s 2024 Spinoff, the latest edition of the agency’s annual summary of its technical achievements, highlights 20 new technologies.

Thirteen Phase 1 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts grants have been awarded by the agency for early stage technology studies.

Long-term pressure gain remains the goal, but compact combustion is accelerating near-term adoption of the technology for high-speed propulsion systems.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (Roman) could push open the door to the discovery of vast numbers of planets.

Integration issues were too difficult to overcome for promising experimental aircraft.

Flight of the NASA X-57 Maxwell electric aircraft is in doubt as the program concludes at the end of September and is dealing with another technical problem.

Operating under unfunded Space Act Agreements, the companies will work for periods of 12 to 24 months.

NASA’s JSC is in line to receive the largest share of the agency’s $27.2 billion fiscal 2024 budget request among NASA’s 10 field centers and Washington HQ.

A 95-page NASA 2023 Spinoff publication was released Jan. 31.

NASA's probe slammed into a targeted asteroid on Sept. 26 to demonstrate a kinetic impact strategy as a potential means of shielding the Earth from a disastrous collision in future.