// ORBITAL LOGISTICS AND PROPULSION TERM
Nebula
A giant cloud of gas and dust in space, often where new stars are born. They can also be the remnants of dying stars.
TECHNICAL DEFINITION
A nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium, and other ionized gases, serving as stellar nurseries (emission nebulae), remnants of supernovae (supernova remnants), or regions reflecting starlight (reflection nebulae).
BACKGROUND
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program and for research in aeronautics and space. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., NASA operates ten field centers across the U.S. and is organized into three mission directorates: Human Spaceflight, Research and Technology, and Science. Established in 1958 amid the Space Race, NASA succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the U.S. space program a distinct civilian orientation focused on peaceful applications. Since then, it has led most American spaceflight programs, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the Apollo program, Skylab, the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station (ISS) and the ongoing multi-national Artemis program.
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- Star nursery
- cosmic cloud
- gas cloud
- dust cloud
USAGE NOTE
Nebulae are essential for studying star formation, stellar evolution, and the chemical enrichment of galaxies.
DEVELOPERS
Organizations developing technology related to Nebula.
A private company focused on developing a commercial, human-crewed space station designed for research, manufacturing, and tourism in low Earth orbit.
A key NASA field center that developed the Nebula Cloud Computing Platform, a pioneering open-source cloud project designed to provide high-performance computing capabilities for processing large-scale scientific datasets from NASA missions.
This major aerospace and defense company runs 'Project Nebula,' an internal initiative aimed at accelerating the development and integration of new space technologies through digital engineering and advanced software practices.
A company specializing in high-precision Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology. They develop and manufacture products like the Nebulas-II, a GNSS SoC (System on Chip) used in applications requiring precise positioning, including drones and other aerospace systems.
A non-profit organization that supports open infrastructure software. It governs OpenStack, a cloud operating system that originated from the collaboration between Rackspace and NASA's Nebula project, created to meet the computing needs of the space agency.