20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... Observatory, the Curiosity Mars rover, the New Horizons mission to Pluto, Juno, and the James Webb Space ... seems is still on the agenda, and possibly so too are solar-system missions such as searching for signs of life in the oceans of Jupiter’s icy ...
28 April 2017
Cassini's first dive between Saturn and its rings
...atmospheric pressure of Earth at sea level – and while mission managers were confident Cassini would complete the manoeuvre successfully, ... it. The craft, which is now back in contact with mission control, is in the process of beaming back science and...
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...
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...
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...
29 April 2020
NASA's new solar sail system to be tested on-board NanoAvionics' satellite
...solar sail system. The aim of the ACS3 mission is to replace conventional rocket propellants by developing ...powered propulsion system, eventually leading to more marvelous deep-space missions following the first inter-planetary CubeSats MarCO-A and B ...
