24 November 2021
NASA successfully launches its DART mission
... of its two, 28-foot-long, roll-out solar arrays. They will power both the spacecraft and NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster – Commercial ion engine, one of several technologies being tested on DART for future application...
10 December 2021
SpaceX launches NASA's IXPE mission
...understanding of the universe for years to come. Each NASA spacecraft is carefully chosen to target brand new observations enabling...,” said Martin Weisskopf, IXPE’s principal investigator at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. ...
16 December 2021
NASA delays launch of JWST
... of the James Webb space telescope scheduled for 22 December won't take place before 24 December, NASA announced on Wednesday. The NASA project that began development in 1996, was originally expected to deploy in the early 2000s. However, multiple...
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...
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...
