30 October 2019
Questions surround US top-secret spaceplane mission
... by Boeing Phantom Works, the reusable X-37B spaceplane is designed to launch on top of a conventional rocket; for this particular mission, the unpiloted OTV was lofted into space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on 7 September, 2017. The spaceplane...
13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
... is, it provides us a full understanding of the Martian atmosphere throughout the day," Sarah Al Amiri, science lead for the mission and the UAE's minister of state for advanced sciences, said during a news conference held on 9 July. "So it covers...
18 October 2021
NASA's Lucy mission launches, encounters problem with solar panel
...’s elusive Trojan asteroids. But, in order to assure that there is enough energy to power the spacecraft throughout the mission, the solar panels will need to deploy flawlessly, said Principal Investigator Hal Levison of the Southwest Institute...
22 November 2021
NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday
... approximately 6.6 kilometres per second – and knock it off course. Or at least that is what the team behind the mission are hoping. “DART will be the first demonstration of the ‘kinetic impactor’ technique in which a spacecraft deliberately collides...
10 December 2021
SpaceX launches NASA's IXPE mission
...Italian Space Agency, the IXPE observatory is NASA’s first mission dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from the ... Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Together...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
...but reproduced during the experiment, indicating very low stress levels to the animals. In 2011 on China’s Shenzhou-8 mission, German scientists flew a type of algae known as Euglenoidea together with snails as part of the Science in Microgravity Box...
