October 2026
Redefining the edge of the solar system
... NYU Courant Institute in 1981. He worked as an assistant professor of mathematics at Boston University until 1985, then moved to NASA’s JPL for Mission Design, where his work led to the first use of chaos for low energy trajectories...
01 April 2015
Media Spun Up on NASA Cutting-edge Mars Landing Technology
NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project will be flying a rocket-powered, saucer-shaped test vehicle into near-space from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, in June. Media were on hand at NASA's Jet ...
02 November 2015
PSO J318.5-22: ‘orphan planet’ may have weather
... at popularising the object, announcing that it’s the sort of place “Where the nightlife never ends!” NASA's fictional JPL’s Exoplanet Travel Bureau put together this poster.
14 December 2015
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover observes sand dunes two stories tall
...), a wheel track is left by the Mars rover exposing underlying material in a shallow sand sheet. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Previous observations of the Bagnold Dunes with the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer on NASA's Mars...
06 January 2016
High-Energy X-rays show Andromeda Galaxy in a different light
... light taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the swath of sky captured by NuSTAR. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC With NuSTAR's new view of a large area of Andromeda, Wik and colleagues are aiming to distinguish...
31 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Publishes Letter to the Washington Space Establishment
... system class clipper ships that never touch the ground to carry people where they want to go. Bring in JPL - who obviously knows how to land on Mars. Aerospace and NASA have years of experience in these realms; we have...
