December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... spaceflight has several examples of crewed-robotic vehicle interaction in LEO, such as the Space Shuttle Hubble repair missions. Human-robotic vehicle interactions in deep space present new challenges as they develop new capabilities. The automated...
25 May 2018
New research suggests Pluto could be one giant comet
... been challenging due to the lack of relevant data. However data from the New Horizons and Rosetta missions have changed all of that and two researchers, Christopher Glein and J. Hunter Waite from Southwest Research...
24 February 2020
First results from InSight reveal a seismically active Mars
... is proving to be above and beyond what was expected from the Martian surface probe. With the InSight mission expected to continue for an entire Martian year or longer, further measurements should build on these initial results and...
14 August 2016
Sixth successful landing for Space X rocket
...the first stage to its landing site was already forewarned by SpaceX to be a challenging mission. Delivering cargo into a geostationary transfer orbit uses up a lot of fuel during take ... keeping alive the dream of sending a crew on a mission to Mars.
20 February 2017
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully on its way to the ISS
... clinical trials for the treatment of immunological diseases. The mission is the company’s tenth cargo flight to the station ... Falcon rocket, as it gets ready for future manned missions. Falcon 9, along with the Dragon spacecraft, was designed...
11 February 2019
Earth's magnetic north pole is on the move and its going fast
...drifting on a regular basis, new updates from ESA’s swarm mission show that the magnetic north pole is shifting location more rapidly ... has also been tracking the magnetic north pole since the mission was launched in 2013. “In this model update, the ...
