25 October 2019
Ride-sharing mission hopes to study asteroid up close
... - through a ride-sharing mission. The Milo Institute presented the opportunity this week at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) taking place in Washington DC. Lockheed Martin and Arizona State University created the one-year-old Milo...
17 September 2021
NASA funds project to mine the Moon with swarms of autonomous robots
... rare-Earth elements and other lunar material on the moon. Led by researchers at the University of Arizona, the team are developing a neuromorphic learning architecture technique, called the Human and Explainable Autonomous Robotic System, or HEART...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
... and well-funded academic consortium led by the University of Arizona could be more involved in the assessment and prediction of space threats and hazards. For example, the report suggests universities should be ‘pressured’ to deliver textbooks and...
27 May 2019
Third largest water reservoir on Mars found
... utilisation on Mars, scientists at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Arizona, uncover what is likely the third largest water reservoir on Mars after the polar ice caps. The newly discovered water is of the frozen variety and...
12 November 2021
Near-Earth asteroid might be a piece of the Moon
...of a Ferris wheel, could be a fragment of our moon, say a team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona. Known as Kamo`oalewa, this sizeable space-rock was discovered by the PanSTARRS telescope in Hawaii in 2016 and was aptly named from a word...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
...and videos from millions of miles away. Work has been underway at NASA JPL, MMA Technologies, the University of Arizona and Brigham Young University to develop deployables that fold-out like origami structures, spring-open like an umbrella or inflate...
