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NASA Taps into the Power of Magnets for Moon, Mars Missions
Can magnets help astronauts to more easily transfer fuel on Moon and Mars missions? A team at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, is looking into that very question. The team is working to create a magnetic coupler, a device that could be used for transferring fuels on space missions.
New Technologies Enable Study of Magnetic Reconnections in Space
Impact: Magnetic reconnection is responsible for the space weather that can adversely affect modern technological systems on Earth, such as telecommunications networks, GPS navigation, and electrical power grids. The FPI and data compression system provide essential capabilities that are enabling MMS to achieve its mission goal of measuring the plasma and the electric and magnetic fields ...