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...
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...
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...
13 December 2019
NASA selects Nightingale site for asteroid sample collection
... and mission assurance for OSIRIS-REx. Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona, Tucson, is the principal investigator, and the University of Arizona also leads the science team and the mission’s science observation planning and data processing...
19 June 2020
US firm offers flights to edge-of-space under high-tech balloon
...to September 1994. Despite financial uncertainties and issues regarding management of the facility, the huge glass and steel-frame structure is now owned by the University of Arizona, and conducts a number of scientific experiments centred around its...
