Mars Rover Closes in on Possible Meteorite (Update)
Opportunity is NASA’s Mars rover on the go – and is rolling into place to inspect its latest find. Scientists believe the rover has come across a possible iron meteorite en route to during its ongoing trek to a new exploration site – the rim of Endeavor crater,...Mars Rover Eyes New Find
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover appears to have found a possible iron meteorite during its ongoing trek to a new exploration site. Scientists are commanding the robot to roll itself over to obtain close-up imagery of the toaster-sized rock. NASA’s Opportunity rover has...Video: NASA’s Next Mars Rover – Extensive Testing Underway
NASA’s next Mars rover – Curiosity – is undergoing rigorous testing by engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Also known as the Mars Science Laboratory, the six-wheeled machine will depart Florida in late 2011, headed for a landing on...Space Tourism Carrier Plane Returns to the Air
The WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) is back in the air after a landing incident on August 19th. The WK2 is the mothership that totes to drop altitude the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) suborbital spaceliner – a six passenger, two pilot craft now under development for Sir Richard Branson’s...Sun Watching: Building the Fastest Space Probe
Here’s a hot one! Build a spacecraft that can fly to within four million miles of the Sun and study a region that has never been explored by a space probe. Doing so will require the satellite to be equipped with a high-tech heat shield to thwart searing 2,550 degree...Attention Space Tourists: Seats Available
A memorandum of agreement between the Boeing Company and space tourist company, Space Adventures, may lead to passenger seats available on Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation-100 (CST-100) spacecraft to LEO. Boeing and Space Adventures have not yet set a price per seat...Greenhouse for the Moon, Mars Demonstrated
How does your garden grow…if you’re on the Moon or Mars? Answering that question is on the scientific menu of researchers at the University of Arizona (UA) Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC). They are demonstrating that plants from Earth could be grown...Mars Rover on a Roll
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity continues its trek toward the long-term destination of Endeavour Crater. The camera system toted by the robot can view portions of Endeavour Crater’s rim on the horizon. During stops, Opportunity is also using its microscope...Desert RATS Rover Mobile, but Rustic
Astronaut Stan Love and NASA geologist Jake Bleacher have wrapped up their Desert RATS Space Exploration Rover test drive with some pretty down to Earth impressions of the prototype for a mobile habitat that would enable new generations of explorers to traverse the...Space Talk
@rookisaacman's MiG is a gorgeous jet to see in the skies
Congratulations to the SpaceX team on today’s very successful launch. That was a blast to watch!
@ThePrimalDino A rocket that has been undergoing test flights for three years still keeps failing. That’s why I’m bearish on Starship. The repeated setbacks of Starship have put America’s lunar landing program far behind schedule.
@xue_tu93527 I mean I wouldn’t call this flight a failure personally, but the impact of this extensive testing campaign is indeed noticeable on our lunar ambitions
Say cheese, Earth and Moon! 📸
One of our two Mars-bound ESCAPADE spacecraft captured Earth and the Moon from 363,250 miles (584,600 kilometers) away. In visible light, both worlds appear as slim crescents.
But switch to thermal infrared and it’s a different picture 👇 🧵1/2
🧵2/2 In thermal infrared, Earth's nightside glows in the dark, warmed by its own heat. The Moon, with no oceans or atmosphere to hold in warmth, stays locked at a bone-chilling -280°F.
The images help calibrate ESCAPADE's cameras for its mission to the Red Planet:
@NASA and @BlueOrigin announced Friday they recently agreed to conduct second stage hot fire testing for the company’s New Glenn rocket on the B-2 test stand at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
The annex to a reimbursable Space Act Agreement
