During a launch countdown, rockets must be continually checked to ensure that control pumps, motors, fuel levels, and myriad other systems and subsystems are operating normally. It takes sophisticated ...

NASA uses thousands of unique software products from hundreds of vendors in its efforts to advance science, technology, aeronautics, Earth studies, and space exploration. Each software application and ...

NASA faced another moon shot. This time, the civilian space ­agency’s monumental task was to help reduce government spending on software. For NASA, that meant eliminating duplicate software licenses ...

If you're a computer programmer with some time on your hands, NASA needs you! The agency said it wants to streamline a piece of software used for aviation research and run on one of the world's most ...

If you've ever wanted to get your hands on the codes that run the Mars rover Curiosity, New Horizons Pluto probe or other NASA spacecraft, here's your (latest) chance. The space agency has released ...

Engineers at NASA’s Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) f acility are examining the feasibility of reusing portions of old NASA spacecraft systems software for new missions. One of the ...

NASA has released its 2017-2018 software catalog, which offers an extensive portfolio of software products for a wide variety of technical applications, all free of charge to the public, without any ...

NASA on Thursday opened up access to the software created for various missions and operations with the publication of a catalog by the space agency's Technology Transfer Program, which points ...

The agency identified the causes of mishaps in orbit during an uncrewed test flight of its Starliner spacecraft in December. By Kenneth Chang After a couple of rounds of investigation and some ...

A lot went right during a recent attempt to reach the International Space Station. A lot went wrong too. The rocket launched just before sunrise on a cool, late December day, cutting a streak of gold ...

NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity was meant to take flight in the early morning hours of Monday, marking the first time a spacecraft has lifted off the surface of another planet. But now it sounds like ...

NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) is recommending that Boeing’s software testing processes undergo a review, following the discovery of another problem with the on-board system that was in ...