13 October 2015
NASA and Israel Space Agency sign cooperation agreement
...was the right time to renew their commitment to their mutual cooperation. The new agreement, which is more far-reaching and in-depth than its predecessor, ...is very similar to Earth, and the successful arrival at Pluto of the New Horizons spacecraft.
09 September 2016
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on its way to study Bennu after successful launch Thursday
... launched the Juno mission to Jupiter, scheduled to enter primary science orbit this October. The first New Frontiers mission, New Horizons, was recently extended by NASA, allowing the mission to fly through the Kuiper Belt in January 2019...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
...-related activities and what is on the agenda for Trump’s new Administration? In the weeks leading up to todays inauguration President ...Kepler Space Observatory, the Curiosity Mars rover, the New Horizons mission to Pluto, Juno, and the James Webb...
20 May 2019
A thin layer of ice-trapped gas stops Pluto's oceans from freezing
When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft got up close to Pluto in 2015, our view of ... hadn’t frozen solid after eons traversing the frigid expanse of outer space. Now, new research suggests that a thin layer of ice-trapped gas molecules at the base of...
December 2018
Prosperity in the stars
... Government. Digital currency The next 12 months will see a new raft of important activities including details of the 25-year space ... as we reach out beyond our home planet to new horizons,” says Chair of Parliament Lembit Opik. Future objectives ...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... is a modification of the same imager that was used on the New Horizons mission to obtain stunning images of Pluto. DRACO images will be used...reality The motivation behind planetary defence missions is not new. Both DART and Hera owe their origins to ...
