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...
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 ...
12 August 2019
Communicating water-powered CubeSats tested in space by NASA
... another via radio and to propel themselves through space with water. This display of engineering marvel is part of NASA’s Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) mission and it has just helped to demonstrate the first coordinated...
17 September 2021
NASA funds project to mine the Moon with swarms of autonomous robots
NASA is funding a new project that uses swarms of autonomous robots to mine...on the moon." The duo’s work has attracted funding to the tune of $500,000 from NASA, part of which will be used to train students in space mining. One of the reasons Momayez...
23 February 2021
NASA releases first audio recording of Mars and stunning landing video of Perseverance
... how you land on Mars – or why it is so difficult – or how cool it would be to do so – you need look no further,” said acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk. “Perseverance is just getting started, and already has provided some of the most iconic...
May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
...organizational causes of the Columbia accident - concluded that NASA’s organization for the Shuttle program combined, among other ... digging deeper into both the problem and the NASA rationale. NASA’s response is disingenuous in the extreme. Safety and...
