December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota on 5 November 2013, carrying the Mars Orbiter Mission This apart, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena in California provided back-up support to track MOM through its deep-space networks at Goldstone...
June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
... 2013 and 29 June 2014. Subsequent reimaging and analysis by the Beagle 2 team, HiRISE team and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed that the targets discovered are of the correct size, shape, colour...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... by the Minor Planet Center of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory who will then send their findings to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA for analysis. Then the data will be made public. We are at the beginning of a new...
October 2015
How to 3D-print a habitat on Mars
... manufacturing time are all reduced. And product applications are wide in range, from low-weight bespoke jet engine parts to the fabrication of complete concrete houses. The mission-enabling potential of this technology is not lost...
February 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
..., and open Internet resources that monitor and analyse such dangers: the Minor Planet Center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; the Small Bodies Node (SBN), part of the Planetary Data System at NASA; and the...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... two asteroid families: Hygeia and Themis. Evidence for outgassing activity was found in the form of dust jets. Volatile-driven activity has been inferred from the dependence observed between the level of activity and...
