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...
16 September 2019
First European satellite with AI set for launch
..., or PhiSat, this revolutionary AI technology will fly on one of the two CubeSats that make up the FSSCat mission – an innovative mission concept consisting of two 6U Cubesats in support of the Copernicus Land and Marine Environment service. The two...
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 ...
17 May 2021
China's Zhurong rover touches down on Mars
... and people will always remember your outstanding achievements." He encouraged those involved to continue working hard in the mission's next steps. Vice-Premiers Han Zheng and Liu He were at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in the...
