19 November 2018
Kepler officially retires after receiving final "goodnight" commands
...," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “Its discoveries have shed a new...and Kepler was able to continue with an extended mission, dubbed K2, which lasted another four years and bumped...
26 November 2018
Success for InSight as it performs a flawless landing on Mars
... a concept to a spacecraft approaching Mars - and even longer since I was first inspired to try to undertake this kind of mission," said Bruce Banerdt of JPL, InSight's principal investigator. "But even after landing, we'll need to be patient for the...
09 October 2019
The first satellite servicing spacecraft launches successfully
... running low on fuel. The MEV is on a mission to intercept the fuel-hungry satellite and attempt the first-..., and it will serve multiple clients during its lifetime.” A second Mission Extension Vehicle, set for launch in 2020, is also planned. This...
22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
... could aid in helping humanity become a multi-planet species by exploring “the possibility of human habitation.” This ambitious mission is China’s second attempt to reach the Red Planet with a robotic probe, following the unsuccessful Yinghuo 1 Mars...
30 July 2020
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully blasts off to Mars
... evidence discovered by on the ground rovers and orbital missions point to long, stable periods where liquid water prospered ... microbial life preserved in the now, dried out sediments. The mission is not limited to finding signs of life however, it is...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
.... However the outlook doesn’t look particularly good. “High-resolution gravity data obtained during Dawn’s extended mission revealed an abundance of dense material — that is, salts and rock particles — in the lower crust of Ceres, suggesting that...
