Princeton in space: Princeton-led Instrument Prepares to ‘Kiss the Sun’

Princeton in Space: Princeton-led Instrument Prepares to ‘Kiss the Sun’

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On Aug. 11, NASA will launch a spacecraft carrying a Princeton-led instrument that will fly repeatedly through the sun’s million-degree corona, getting closer to our star than any human-made spacecraft in history. Video courtesy of NASA

By: Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications, Princeton University


Aug. 6, 2018 10 a.m.



At about 4 a.m. on Aug. 11, the Parker Solar Probe is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral carrying ISʘIS, an instrument suite led by Princeton’s David McComas to measure energetic particles from the sun’s corona and the solar wind. The car-sized satellite will be carried by a Delta-IV Heavy rocket, one of the tallest rockets launched into space since the Saturn V carried humans to the moon, and it will push the probe to the fastest speeds ever achieved by a human-made object, ultimately reaching 430,000 miles per hour. That’s fast enough to get from Princeton to Washington, D.C., in a second an...

National Nuclear Security Administration Awards Los Alamos National Laboratory Management & Operating Contract

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Washington, DC - - (June 8, 2018) - - The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) announced today it has awarded Triad National Security, LLC the management and operating (M&O) contract for the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Triad National Security, LLC is a limited liability company, which consists of Battelle Memorial Institute, the Regents of the Univ...

Food and Drug Administration Finalizes Guidances to Accelerate the Development of Reliable and Beneficial Next Generation Sequencing-based Tests

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The agency is leveraging new tools and policies to advance the creation of innovative genetic and genomic-based tests and help ensure the validity of their results



(April 12, 2018) - - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today finalized two guidances to drive the efficient development of a novel technology that scans a person’s DNA to diagnose genetic diseases, which are usually hereditary, and guide...

Massachusetts General Hospital-led Team Identifies Gene Mutations Behind Lack of a Nose

Alterations in same gene previously associated with rare form of muscular dystrophy



February 27, 2017


Boston, MA - - (February 10, 2017) - - Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) led a large, international research team that has identified gene mutations associated with a rare congenital condition involving the absence of a nose and often...