January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
...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,...
October 2018
Developing wearable technologies for space and Earth
... 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...
July 2019
Next steps in human space exploration
... administration when we found that the Constellation programme, which was in principle the way that we wanted to explore deep space, had budgetary and technical problems. So we made the decision to halt that programme and go back to the drawing...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... movement of the 1960s–1970s and in a sense it can be evaluated against the multitude of artefacts sent into deep space, deposited on the surface of the Moon, temporarily hovering in the stratosphere, or any of the speculative works that illustrate...
04 July 2016
JUNO's orbit insertion phase starts soon!
..., allowing its progress to be monitored by the mission teams at NASA JPL and Lockheed Martin Space Systems via signal reception by Deep Space Network antennas in Goldstone, California, and Canberra, Australia. All of JUNO’s instruments will be turned...
11 May 2018
Revolutionary X-Ray navigation system to be used on CubeSat mission
... SEXTANT Project Manager Jason Mitchell. “This is great opportunity for XNAV and showing its value to navigating in deep space.” In the meantime, the SEXTANT team are busy fine-tuning both flight and ground software in preparation...
