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FinancialBuzz.com’s latest The Buzz Show: Featuring Our Corporate News Recap on “LightPath Technologies, Inc Announced its Participation in the Mars Exploration Program” LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH) surged over 13% in premarket trading after the company announced its Participation in the Mars Exploration Program. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently confirmed that optical elements manufactured by its subsidiary, ISP Optics, are supporting the Mars Curiosity Rover’s efforts in the NASA Science Exploration Program. LightPath is proud to have our optical solutions ...

 E-Mail The Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science & Technology II (CRESST II), a partnership between NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and four universities--led by researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park's (UMD) Department of Astronomy--has received an extension of its cooperative agreement through March 2027 and been funded in the amount of $178 million. The extension will enable the center to continue current collaborations and expand on the partnership's success. CRESST was created in 2006 with a 10-year cooperative agreement, and CRESST II began in 2017 ...

Print NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this image of its shadow during the rotorcraft’s second experimental test flight on April 22, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Advertisement Picture the scene: A small drone the size of a suitcase descends into a dark Martian crevasse—perhaps a lava tube that was formed billions of years ago by volcanic activity on the Red Planet. The drone illuminates its surroundings, recording views never seen before by human eyes as its suite of instruments seeks out signs of past or present alien biology. Finally, its reconnaissance complete, the drone...

First in Flight: NASA Just Proved Flying on Mars Is Possible--Next Up Is the Solar System With Ingenuity’s five successful flights on the Red Planet, aviation may find unexpected footing in the future of space exploration Print NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this image of its shadow during the rotorcraft's second experimental test flight on April 22, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Advertisement Picture the scene: A small drone the size of a suitcase descends into a dark Martian crevasse—perhaps a lava tube that was formed billions of years ago by volcanic activity on the Red...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Bethany Ehlmann, professor of planetary science and associate director of the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech, testified before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on April 29 about the scientific value of JPL’s Mars 2020 mission; JPL is managed by Caltech for NASA. Ehlmann, member of the science team and co-investigator on the rover’s Mastcam-Z and SHERLOC instrument teams, gave her testimony before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics in a hearing titled “What Do Scienti...