30 June 2019
Asteroid day 2019
... towards Earth - programmes that both NASA and ESA have initiated with their Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) and HERA missions respectively. Just this week, astronomers discovered a car-size asteroid hours before...
30 June 2016
Orbital ATK and NASA Successfully Complete Second Qualification Test
...and burn approximately six tons of propellant per second. Tuesday's test was delayed by a computer anomaly, resulting from a data ... The affected part had to be replaced prior to testing. Orbital ATK's vice president and general manager of propulsion...
11 October 2021
Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says
Firing nuclear missiles at a late-spotted Earth-bound asteroid would be effective in stopping the majority of the rocky body hitting our planet, a new study by US scientists says. Every day, Earth is bombarded with more than 100 tons of dust and ...
18 January 2021
NASA's SLS engine test ends early
... launch countdown procedure – and igniting the engines. "Saturday’s test was an important step forward to ensure that the core stage... work in May, the team worked through the remaining tests in the series, while also standing down periodically as six...
19 March 2021
NASA conducts successful test of its massive SLS Moon rocket
...NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The successful test, known as a hot fire, is a critical milestone ahead of the... to the Moon. The longer duration hot fire tested a variety of operational conditions, including moving the ...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
...The overall facility, referred to as the EDEN ISS Mobile Test Facility (MTF), will be built in order to provide ...at the end of 2016, following which a long-term integrated testing campaign will be conducted at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in...
