04 May 2018
NASA's InSight mission gears up for tomorrow's launch
...martian rover known as InSight. Just a few weeks ago, NASA sent their Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) into orbit ...using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, will be NASA’s first mission to peer deep within the interior of...
13 August 2018
NASA to partner with six US companies to develop space exploration technologies
... a low-cost, reliable, high-performance, stand-alone Terrain Relative Navigation (TRN) sensor suite. According to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, "These awards focus on technology collaborations with the commercial space sector that leverage...
02 January 2019
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft makes history...again!
...waiting for news back on Earth. New Horizons can't talk to NASA and point to take observations at the same time, so controllers ...picking up the radio message sent by the spacecraft to one of NASA’s big antennas, in Madrid, Spain, mission crew at the ...
27 March 2019
NASA to land humans on the Moon again by 2024 - but with better fitting spacesuits hopefully
...Jim Bridenstine has just announced that ‘President Donald Trump has asked NASA to accelerate US plans to return to the Moon and to... to overcome in order to be treated as equals. NASA astronaut Christina Koch who had been scheduled to install powerful...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... an energetic ionosphere and a young, unique surface,” Mitchell concludes. Trident is one of four concepts being considered for NASA’s Discovery Program mission; the remaining three are VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and...
18 June 2020
Countdown to NASA’s new Mars rover launch
... Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance deputy project scientist at the NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California where the... the launch date, said Omar Baez, launch director in NASA’s Launch Services Program in Florida, but the three-week...
