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Sandia tests heat shields for space

October 15, 2024 • Sandia is testing heat shields for NASA at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy

Topics: aerospace, NASA

A cloud of smoke coming off of a glowing rectangle.

Powering the moon: Sandia researchers design microgrid for future lunar base

May 11, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories is well-known for designing reliable and resilient microgrids for military bases and vital city services. Now, Sandia researchers are working with NASA to design one for the moon. This is not the first time Sandia has partnered with NASA to power equipment on the...

Categories: Energy / Environment / Water, Renewable energy, Space / Astronomy

Topics: Mars, microgrid, moon, NASA, space

An illustration with solar panels and a dome on the moon with another base further away and the Earth in the sky.

Major upgrade to HOT Shot rocket program culminates in successful launch

September 13, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories announced that a major upgrade to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s HOT Shot sounding rocket program culminated in a successful launch on Saturday at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. HOT Shot, short for High Operational Tempo Shot, collects scientific data that benefits...

Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: additive manufacturing, aerospace, NASA, sounding rocket

Islamic Center kids, Sandia coach, win big in international STEM competition

September 7, 2017 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Motivated by the importance of involving kids in STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math applications, Sandia National Laboratories computer scientist Mohamed Ebeida started a robotics program last year at the Islamic Center of New Mexico for boys and girls from 6 to 14 years old. This...

Categories: Awards, Community / Education

Topics: diversity, Islam, Lego, NASA, robot, robotics competition, STEM

Hard cold work and unsung science heroes

October 21, 2013 • Data for climate simulations doesn’t come easy ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —The Sierra went down over the Arctic Ocean, about 60 miles from the northernmost tip of North America. One moment the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with its 20-foot wingspan was up in the sky, gathering “hard” data over frozen terrain to...

Categories: Climate Change, Military / Defense

Topics: Air Force, Alaska, climate change, drones, NASA, UAVs

Fiery research: Sandia computers model rocket fuel fires

July 31, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Walt Gill of Sandia National Laboratories’ Fire & Aerosol Sciences Department calls it a pancake — a disk more than a foot in diameter covered with what looks like the debris you’d scrape off a particularly messy barbecue grill. It’s actually a crunchy, baked-on mixture of aluminum,...

Categories: Chemistry, Computing

Topics: chemistry, computing, NASA, national laboratories, propellant fires, Sandia