15 November 2014
Pioneering Philae completes main mission before hibernation
.... “The data collected by Philae and Rosetta is set to make this mission a game-changer in cometary science,” says Matt Taylor, ESA’s Rosetta project scientist. Fred Jansen, ESA’s Rosetta mission manager, says, “At the end of this...
18 July 2016
NASA unveils new Mars 2020 rover
... first time, and it could also provide useful engineering information," said Mars 2020 Deputy Project Manager Matt Wallace of JPL.
06 September 2016
Philae's final resting place has been found
... Philae’s three days of science into proper context, now that we know where that ground actually is!” says Matt Taylor, ESA’s Rosetta project scientist. "Now that the lander search is finished we feel ready for Rosetta...
12 October 2020
Rarely detected star shredding event caught in unprecedented detail
... about half of that to the monster black hole, which is over a million times more massive,” says says Matt Nicholl, a lecturer and Royal Astronomical Society research fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK, and the lead author...
10 January 2023
Virgin Orbit fails to deliver on first launch from UK
... Soyuz vehicles, as well as Ariane 6 delays and the grounding of Vega rockets after a failed launch last month. Matt Archer, director of commercial spaceflight at the UK Space Agency (UKSA), said he was hugely disappointed that the mission...
06 June 2024
NASA troubleshoots helium leaks after Starliner launch
.... After docking with the ISS they will join the Expedition 71 crew of NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matt Dominick, Tracy Dyson and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin and Oleg...
