Asteroid Mining Update from the Factory Floor
The private space group – Planetary Resources – headquartered near Seattle, Washington is pushing forward on its Arkyd-100 – the firm’s space telescope and technology demonstrator for their Arkyd series of asteroid prospecting missions. The Arkyd-100 series is the...New Evidence for a Wet Mars
The Red Planet’s early evolution appears to be one that’s water rich, and could have been wet environments to support potential niches for ancient life. New evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars stems from orbital observations by a NASA spacecraft of the...“Sling-Sat” Idea for Removal of Orbital Debris
Space clutter and what to do about this menacing problem will demand creative solutions. Texas A&M Aerospace Engineering Professor Daniele Mortari, and his Ph.D. student Jonathan Missel, are developing a new and imaginative concept that reinvents the way the...Breathe Easy: New Portable Unit for Space Missions
Oxygen…you can’t live without it. And you can’t leave Earth without it either. On long duration space travel, astronauts need to carry out rigorous exercise to help combat the effects of microgravity on the body. NASA engineers at the Glenn Research Center in...NASA: On the BEAM – New Add-on for Space Station
NASA formally announced today a newly planned addition to the International Space Station – the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM). The partnership to attach BEAM to the ISS involves the space agency and the private company, Bigelow Aerospace of North Las...New Free NASA Book Offers “Crash Course” in Orbital Debris
What to do about human-made space junk? A first step is get up to speed on speeding orbital clutter! The NASA Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership (APPEL) has made public release of Orbital Debris Management and Risk Mitigation, its first...Wanted: Smashing Ideas for Asteroid Mission
It is dubbed the Asteroid Impact and Deflection mission – AIDA. The European Space Agency (ESA) is appealing for research ideas to help guide the development of a U.S.-European asteroid deflection mission now under study. Concepts are being sought for both ground- and...Wake-up Call: Mission to Pluto in Good Health
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has come out of hibernation mode to carry out system checks, as well as receive a new flight software upload and churn out science data downloads. The mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics...Hedgehog Robots Designed for Phobos Exploration
Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, might be explored one day by a jumping robotic probe. Marco Pavone, an assistant professor in Stanford’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is working on “hedgehogs” – spiked, roughly spherical rovers that hop, tumble and...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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