NASA Asteroid Mission: Digging in for Mining Savvy
A NASA sample return mission to an asteroid is geared to provide important clues as to how to mine asteroids in the future. Called the OSIRIS-REx – NASA short-hand for the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security and Regolith Explorer – this...New Tool: Mission Trajectory Generator
Plotting a course to those hard-to-reach destinations – say Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, and most comets and asteroids – can now be easier thanks to a NASA technologist offering a “paradigm shift” in charting long-haul missions. Called the Evolutionary Mission Trajectory...Emerging Space Program Investments Reach $1.8 billion in 2013
Euroconsult released today Trends & Prospects for Emerging Space Programs, a report that benchmarks projects, development models, lessons learned and perspectives of countries starting their first or second generation satellite programs. Of the 29 countries...Mars via Hawaii! Remote Habitat Journey
A research team is about to end their long-duration space journey – spending more than 100 days inside a remote habitat. The HI-SEAS study is led by Cornell University and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, work is funded by the NASA Human Research Program. The...May the “Plasmonic” Force Be With You!
“Plasmonic” force propulsion – a new way to precisely nudge and position tiny spacecraft. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program recently selected for funding this creative concept, giving the thumbs up on the idea proposed by two researchers at Missouri...Scientists Probe Exploration of Pluto
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is now 70 percent of the way along its journey to the Pluto system. It carries a sophisticated package with eight scientific instruments comprised of imagers, UV and IR spectrographs, plasma analyzers, a dust counter, and radio science....NASA’s Next Moon Probe: LADEE to Test Laser Communications
NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer – LADEE – is being prepared for its departure to the Moon. Launch date is slated for September 2013 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Va. atop a Minotaur V booster. LADEE’s mission duration is approximately 160...NASA’s Next Mars Mission Readied for Florida Trek
It may not look like a time machine, but in regards to Mars, that’s what NASA’s next mission to the red planet will become. The spacecraft builders at Lockheed Martin near Denver, Colorado are set to ship NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter...Satellite Imagery Used to Show Earth’s “Hotspots” and “Hopespots”
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Bella Gaia are launching a short film titled Hotspots to Hopespots – a multimedia presentation of scientific data and images on the planet’s changing environment. As changes to ecosystems and the...Space Talk
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