New Info: Mars Rock Mystery
It’s a bit of a detective story. NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover imagery shows a rock materializing in a spot where it wasn’t seen in earlier imagery. How’d it get there? Mars Exploration Rover (MER) scientists have dubbed the object “Pinnacle Island.” One view is that...NASA Spacecraft Dodge Chinese Debris
It was seven years ago this month that China purposely destroyed its own Fengyun-1C meteorological-monitoring spacecraft via a Chinese anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon. That January 11, 2007 event represents the worst single debris contamination of low Earth orbit. NASA’s...Private SpaceShipTwo Flies Third Powered Flight
The skies above the Mojave Air and Space Port in California were busy today. Virgin Galactic successfully completed the third rocket-powered supersonic flight of its passenger carrying reusable space vehicle, SpaceShipTwo (SS2). On release from the WhiteKnightTwo...Video: International Space Exploration Forum Focuses on Global Cooperation
The United States hosted the International Space Exploration Forum (ISEF), the first-ever ministerial-level meeting to build support for global cooperation in space exploration, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 2014. ISEF brought...New Survey Poll Data: Funding the Final Frontier
An interesting poll was taken last year focusing on space and funding the final frontier. Done by the London-based YouGov, the fieldwork was done between Nov. 28 and Dec. 1st. YouGov is an international, full service online market research agency founded in the UK in...U.S. Dream Chaser Builder Teams with European Space Agency, German Aerospace Center
U.S. Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have signed an understanding to identify areas of collaboration with European industry for developing hardware and mission concepts for the Dream Chaser...New Details: First of the Year Asteroid Strike
“Let’s start 2014 with a bang! Hello and goodbye to asteroid 2014 AA” posted José Luis Galache, an astronomer at the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass. On January 1, Richard Kowalski at the Mount Lemmon observatory in Arizona spotted an incoming asteroid, later...NASA Moon Orbiter Spots China Lunar Lander/Rover
China’s Chang’e 3 lander and rover have been spotted by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s (LRO) powerful camera. At the time of the landing LRO’s orbit was far from the landing site so images of the landing were not possible. However, ten days later on December...Wheel Wear and Tear on the Red Planet
There’s no fear of a flat! But new images back from the NASA Curiosity Mars rover show that the rock-studded Red Planet terrain is causing wear, tear and holes on the rover’s aluminum wheels. In fact, future drives of the machine may be charted to cross smoother...Space Talk
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#NASA estimates that a human mission to Mars could take months or years with current propulsion technologies. To accelerate this timeline, NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are exploring nuclear thermal propulsion.
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.@NASA_Langley is testing the Lightweight Surface Manipulation System AutoNomy capabilities Development for Surface Operations (LANDO), a robotic arm designed to lift payloads and place them on the #lunar surface.
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