30 November 2015
“Alien Megastructure” Star's Dimming was Possibly Caused by Comets
... 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 ...
23 August 2016
NASA Makes Contact with STEREO-B Spacecraft
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...
30 September 2016
Historic Rosetta mission ends
... 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, ...
02 August 2017
First iodine fuelled thrusters pass critical design tests
... 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...
22 December 2021
Scientists present the first-ever analysis of samples retrieved from Ryugu
...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...
17 February 2021
Perseverance due to land on Mars tomorrow!
... 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...
