August 2018
Measuring the pulse of Mars
... mission has done before it. NASA’s InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) spacecraft will peer deep into Mars’ interior using three main research techniques to give scientists an unprecedented look...
10 August 2018
Fiery inferno awaits NASA's Parker Solar Probe
... electrons) and can reach temperatures of a few million degrees; a region that is known as the corona. “We’ll be going where no spacecraft has dared go before — within the corona of a star,” said project scientist Nicky Fox of Johns Hopkins Applied...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... test had failed, an alternative method (Plan B) would have been activated, which meant using only the spacecraft’s eight 22 Newton thrusters. However, as ISRO chairman Koppillil Radhakrishnan put it, this would merely have been a “salvaging...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
...asteroid Ryugu (formerly 1999 JU3) in 2018 to support the search for a suitable place for the main spacecraft to acquire a sample that will be returned to Earth. In addition to exploring asteroids, DLR is also participating in various missions to the...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
...-dawn sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was the beginning of an unprecedented journey of discovery, as the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft left the confines of Earth bound for the ringed giant, Saturn. This sophisticated interplanetary explorer went...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
...+) from an active plume should be detectable with the on-board particle detector instruments. Testing a model of the JUICE spacecraft 16 m antenna system in September 2017. Europa’s ocean The presence of water on Europa has been known about for...
