NASA this week successfully did what it normally tries to avoid, and destroyed one of its own spacecraft — by ramming it into an asteroid. It was […]
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West Virginia Small Satellite Center of Excellence promises job diversification within the state
BY ERSHAD KAMOL West Virginia University has teamed up with NASA to develop West Virginia Small Satellite Center of Excellence at WVU’s Statler College of Engineering, with […]
WVU’s Davis College hosting youngsters from Baltimore for energy camp
If you’re traveling on Interstate 79 around South Fairmont and you time it right, you’ll see it: The Katherine Johnson IV&V NASA facility, at I-79 Technology Park. […]
Longtime IV&V Program director to retire at end of ’21
Blaney worked for NASA for decades Newsroom@DominionPost.com FAIRMONT — After decades of service to NASA and leadership of the Independent Verification and Validation Program, Director Gregory Blaney […]
Exploring Venus
WVU engineers create software for aerobots WVU Today Engineers at West Virginia University are propelling exploration forward by creating control software for a group of aerial robots […]
WVU engineers take on data transfer limits during space exploration
MORGANTOWN — Engineers at West Virginia University are helping to solve one of the greatest limitations of space exploration — sending and receiving information between a spacecraft […]
Gov.’t can fund SpaceX but not infrastructure?
There’s a fine line between a public-private partnership and a government handout. A private-public partnership would be akin to the West Virginia Legislature approving $37 million in […]
Marion County firm lands $24M NASA contract
FAIRMONT – If you want to hear about that $24 million NASA contract, you have to take the car tour, first. One look at rocket ship-styled hood […]
Morgantown software engineer, Fairmont tech firm, play key role in NASA’s first battery-powered airplane
FAIRMONT – TMC Technologies of Fairmont is playing a key role in NASA’s development of its first all-electric experimental airplane, the X-57 Maxwell. TMC Senior Systems Engineer […]
Lesson of a little helicopter on Mars
The little helicopter weighs only 4 pounds, and its first flight lasted a mere 30 seconds and reached an altitude of only 10 feet. But it did […]