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...
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...
17 August 2016
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission Review Complete
... provide final anchoring of the boulder to the capture mechanism. Credit: NASA artist’s concept The Asteroid Redirect Mission is expected to send a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid in near-earth space. The spacecraft will retrieve a boulder of a few...
17 May 2017
SLS/Orion mission delayed until 2019
... these three programs since 2012 in order to get its Exploration Mission - 1 (EM-1) off the ground, but despite mounting costs –... sufficiently. NASA did intend to follow-up the EM-1 mission with its EM-2 mission, however this is also likely to be put ...
20 October 2017
NASA Psyche mission to use laser communication
... Changing Development Program. STMD stands for Space Technology Mission Directorate and laser communication is expected to revolutionise future...beam knows where to transmit back to. For the Psyche mission, the laser beacon to DSOC will be sent from ...
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...
