February 2019
Building a space museum from scratch
... the education and outreach officer at one of NASA’s Deep Space Network tracking stations, located in a beautiful farming valley ... were received by the giant antenna dishes of the Deep Space Network (DSN). Apollo lunar module descent engine. Arriving...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
.... From a practical rather than a legal viewpoint it would seem that the projects by Planetary Resources Inc and Deep Space Industries seem to have less of a legal, regulatory or standards challenge to their proposed efforts than Shackleton Energy and...
28 April 2017
Cassini's first dive between Saturn and its rings
... back in contact with mission control, is in the process of beaming back science and engineering data, via NASA's Deep Space Network Goldstone Complex in California's Mojave Desert. During this final chapter, Cassini will make a total of 22 dives...
14 February 2019
NASA says a final goodbye to Opportunity
... is taking shape." The final transmission, sent via the 70-meter Mars Station antenna at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Complex in California, ended a multifaceted, eight-month recovery strategy in an attempt to compel the rover to communicate. “We have...
10 January 2019
Successful launch of formation-flying microsatellite constellation
...,” said John Serafini, CEO of HawkEye 360, based in Herndon, Virginia. SFL was selected for the mission by Deep Space Industries, the HawkEye 360 Pathfinder prime contractor, due to the importance of formation flying by multiple satellites for...
May 2026
Mars exploration – the nuclear option
... at around 450 seconds. This means they consume enormous amounts of propellant in a very short time and, for deep-space missions, they are simply too inefficient. Hybrid strategy The design requires no revolutionary propulsion breakthroughs, only...
