24 April 2020
A population of interstellar asteroids has been found hiding between Jupiter and Neptune
...descent of these celestial bodies prompted them to be called Centaurs, after a creature in Greek mythology whose mismatched body is...running computer simulations on the past trajectories of these 19 centaurs, a method to look back in time to find their...
06 June 2018
New Horizons wakes up ready for next flyby
... forth on an extended mission to study the Kuiper belt environment by observing numerous Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) and Centaurs in unique ways. Its first target is KBO 486958 2014 MU69, an icy object that may have at least...
16 August 2019
SNC remains optimistic about crewed Dream Chaser
... said during the news briefing that he expects the Vulcan Centaur to be ready for its first flight in early 2021....fly either way." Meanwhile, parts and systems going on the Vulcan Centaur are already being tested on Atlas 5s. "We're going to sort of...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
Twenty years ago on 15 October 1997, a mighty streak of flame from a Titan/Centaur rocket split the pre-dawn sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was the beginning of an unprecedented journey of ...
01 May 2020
Blue Origin tops NASA funding awards for human lunar lander
...rocket and United Launch Alliance’s next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket. Conceptual designs of the Dynetics lander, which...commercial launches, it too can be flown aboard ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket. The three will now compete against each other over...
30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
... as scheduled. This was swiftly followed by the first stage of the Atlas 5 rocket separating from Centaur. By 12:04 GMT, the Atlas V's first Centaur burn was complete. As of 12:09 GMT, the NASA team were waiting for the Atlas’s second...
