30 January 2017
Orion engineers test for vibrations and SLS completes a major review
... added. NASA is currently on track to launch an uncrewed Exploration Mission (EM) in 2018, however the detailed SLS assessment is a big... forward in being ready for more capable human and robotic missions to deep space which are planned for as early as...
14 April 2017
Cassini finds evidence for hydrothermal vent activity on Enceladus
... Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate at Headquarters in Washington. The detection...and warming the surrounding surface. Hopefully, NASA's Europa Clipper mission, which is planned for launch in the 2020s will be...
26 July 2017
Cassini finds surprises for Saturn's magnetic field
...lower limit of 0.06 degrees that was calculated by the spacecraft's magnetometer data prior to the start of its last mission. Magnetic fields within planetary bodies are thought to be generated by currents flowing through liquid metal (or in the case...
11 September 2017
Are we being watched from afar?
... habitable exoplanets in regions centred close to the plane of Earth's orbit and other terrestrial planets continues with missions such as the ongoing K2 mission of NASA's Kepler spacecraft.
