23 April 2018
CubeSats lead the way for new NASA missions
...," 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...
17 December 2021
First commercial lunar distance communications network validated in space
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 ...
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...
