Comet Flyby Yields New Science Twists…and a Mystery
Visited last fall by NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft during its EPOXI mission was comet Hartley 2. Scientists have published their findings about the flyby – offering some new twists to the encounter of a cometary kind. On its EPOXI mission the Deep Impact spacecraft...Next Mars Rover Prepared For First Step to the Red Planet
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is being readied for a fall 2011 liftoff from Florida. Preparations are in full-swing on readying the MSL Curiosity rover for its red planet mission. Plans now call for the Curiosity robot and its descent stage to be...SpaceShipTwo Scores Another Glide Test!
Another glide flight of the SpaceShipTwo took place today at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Today’s high-altitude drop from the carrier airplane – WhiteKnightTwo – was the eleventh glide flight for the SpaceShipTwo. Onboard the vessel, putting the...Opportunity Mars Rover Inches Toward Next Target
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover is rolling its way toward Endeavour crater, eyeing the western rim of the huge feature as seen in new imagery. Endeavour crater has a diameter of about 14 miles (22 kilometers). Scientists are expecting the robot to gain access to...NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft: “Moment of Truth Is About to Arrive”
NASA’s Dawn mission was launched in September 2007. The spacecraft is now approaching Vesta, a protoplanet that is currently some 143 million miles from Earth. Powered by an ion engine, Dawn will arrive at Vesta next month. Starting in September, the spacecraft will...Book Review: Martian Summer – Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission
Martian Summer – Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission by Andrew Kessler; Pegasus Books; New York, New York; $27.95 (Hardcover); April 2011. NASA’s Phoenix Mars lander was a milestone in red planet probing. Touching down on Mars on...China’s Moon Orbiter – Headed For New Destination
Chinese space officials have announced that their second lunar orbiter – Chang’e-2 – has departed the Moon and is headed for deep space. Making use of leftover propellant, the spacecraft will reportedly carry out additional exploratory tasks. According to the Xinhua...Voyager Spacecraft Data Yields Surprising Find
Voyager Spacecraft Data: New Findings. Credit: NASA/JPL A new computer model of the solar system based on data gathered by NASA’s enduring Voyager space probes indicates that the edge of the solar system — the heliosheath — is not smooth. Rather, it is...Next Mars Rover Readied for Action – But Where Will It Land?
Nuclear-powered Mars rover, Curiosity, is expected to open up a new arm of red planet research. Credit: NASA/JPL NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory is named Curiosity. And if you are curious about where Curiosity is going to land on the red planet, stay tuned. The final...Space Talk
A new eye on the cosmos is almost ready to soar!
#NASA’s #NancyGraceRoman Space Telescope is now set to launch on 30 August 2026 - eight months ahead of schedule.
With its powerful wide-field infrared vision, #Roman will reveal vast, uncharted regions of the #universe,
#Space
🇲🇦🇧🇷| Brazilian company Saipher presented its HORUS SDA/SSA/STM software during a meeting with FAR 4th Bureau officials. The system provides Space Domain Awareness (SDA), Space Situational Awareness (SSA), and Space Traffic Monitoring (STM) capabilities.
@Eric3Gribble Not how Congress works. SLS gets money allocated to it by Congress. SLS receiving money doesn’t take money from other parts of NASA.
And it’s a good thing that we didn’t fall for this trap too, because then no part of Artemis would be working
Everybody say "Hi, LESTR" 👋
This machine at our center is helping NASA study how materials behave in super-cold environments.
Putting electronics and other flight hardware to the test at extremely low temperatures will be critical as we look to build a Moon Base near the lunar
