27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
... kilograms heavier, said Tice, in an interview for ROOM. Lockheed Martin built the aeroshell at its factory in Littleton, Colorado. The company has made the aeroshells for all of NASA’s Mars landing missions, which began with...
13 January 2020
New study shows a split Solar System that kickstarted growth of Jupiter
... conditions into account, the models conducted by R. Brasser at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and S. J. Mojzsis at the University of Colorado Boulder, show that the growth of Jupiter from pebble accretion is not fast enough for the planet...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... are slim, but there is an argument that could be made, says Chris Johnson, a space law advisor at the Colorado-based pressure group the Secure World Foundation, in an interview with New Scientist. “It’s time for the larger...
13 May 2020
Debris from China's rocket may have hit African villages
..., who had been tracking the object for two days. According to tweets by McDowell, Hollywood, JPL and Colorado Springs were all under the reentry path of the rocket. “I’ve never seen a major reentry pass directly...
12 June 2020
New Horizon breaks record with first interstellar parallax experiment
... from Earth,” said Alan Stern, New Horizons principal investigator from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. “And that has allowed us to do something that had never been accomplished before — to see the nearest stars...
16 September 2020
The Sun enters a new cycle and will reach a peak in 2025
...,” says Doug Biesecker, panel co-chair and solar physicist at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado. “The Sun’s impact on our daily lives is real and is there. SWPC is staffed 24/7, 365 days a year because...
