18 July 2016
NASA unveils new Mars 2020 rover
... and divert to safe ground nearby," said Allen Chen, Mars 2020 entry, descent and landing lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "With this capability, we can now consider landing areas with unsafe...
23 August 2016
NASA Makes Contact with STEREO-B Spacecraft
...sun flares and their associated coronal mass ejections. Credit: NASA STEREO-A and STEREO-B spacecraft (Solar and Terrestrial Relations ...loss of contact with the spacecraft was unexpected. NASA resumed efforts to contact STEREO-B after it had...
22 December 2017
Where is NASA going next?
...science discovery,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “These are ...our solar system today.” At the same announcement, NASA also advised that two mission concepts will receive technology...
26 January 2018
NASA launches GOLD to study Earth-space boundary
...yesterday with the help of a European Ariane 5 rocket, NASA launched a satellite that is hosting its Global-scale Observations...," added Elsayed Talaat, heliophysics chief scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "We anticipate GOLD will give...
15 April 2018
TESS, NASA's planet-finding mission launches today!
.... TESS’s design is based on Orbital ATK's LEOStar-2 platform - the 31st of its type that Orbital has delivered to NASA for their science missions. As TESS’s job is to look but not touch anything, its payload is made up of four...
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...
