... They studied observations made in January 2015 by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which is optimized for observation in infrared wavelengths. Simply ...in both 2011 and 2013 before moving into deep space. When Spitzer was subsequently used in January ...
NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) has locked in a carrier signal from a ... following an October 2014 loss of communications. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The spacecraft had apparently lost attitude control...
... Science. "Rosetta was on the drawing board even before ESA's first deep-space mission, Giotto, had taken the first image of a comet nucleus as...this emotional day for both the ESA and the global space industry, as the world says good-bye to Rosetta, ...
... need for an internal hot cathode. The thruster is targeted for use on two deep-space CubeSat missions that will hitch a ride on NASA’s Space Launch System; Morehead State University’s Lunar IceCube and Arizona State University’s LunaH...
...and measurements taken by Hayabusa2 during its mission that the ancient space rock was a rubble pile asteroid. Rubble piles form when ...sample return of a material in the gas state from deep space. Now however, scientists have had chance to analyse the...
... controllers also may not be able to confirm these milestones at the times listed above because of the complexity of deep-space communications. The flow of detailed engineering data (called telemetry) in near-real-time relies on a new kind of relay...