...," said Andy Klesh of JPL, MarCO's chief engineer. "CubeSats haven't had to survive the intense radiation of a trip to deep space before, or use propulsion to point their way towards Mars. We hope to blaze that trail." With the prospect...
... spacecraft ever to orbit a resident of the asteroid belt. It is also the only ship ever targeted to orbit two deep-space destinations. This unique mission would be quite impossible without its advanced ion propulsion system, giving it capabilities...
...the Sun Hayabusa2 spent 2.5 years after swing-by travelling in deep space towards Ryugu. Over such long journeys, the spacecraft is...one of the first missions to use ion engines in deep space. The first Hayabusa visited the stony-type asteroid Itokawa,...
Working together, Intuitive Machines (IM) and Goonhilly Earth Station (GES) Ltd. recently integrated GES’s newly commissioned deep space antenna (GHY-6) into IM’s Lunar Telemetry and Tracking Network (LTN). The LTN will provide near-continuous ...
... six-month expedition length to over 12 months to understand more fully the medical consequences of living in space and undertaking flights to deep space and Mars. The initial impact of zero gravity, first experienced by Vostok cosmonaut Herman Titov...
... provides the strongest overlap between NASA needs and terrestrial applications NASA’s primary mission is to spearhead exploration of deep space with a particular focus on the Moon and Mars. Recent directions from the President of the United States...