13 March 2017
Europa Clipper: the official name of NASA's mission to Europa
... amount of science data, then sails on out of there," said Robert Pappalardo, Europa Clipper project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The mission concept has already completed its first major review by the...
13 March 2019
'Marscopter' to accompany rover on Mars 2020 mission
... the nearest pilot is millions of miles away on Earth. Not one to shy away from a challenge, engineers at NASA’s Jet propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, set to work over four years ago to come up with a design that can...
27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
... by design at temperatures reaching 2,100 degrees Celsius, Neil Tice hopes he can be where the action is on Earth: at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, home of the rovers. He’ll know a parachute is about to deploy and that the two halves...
18 June 2020
Countdown to NASA’s new Mars rover launch
... to make that definitive conclusion,” said Katie Stack Morgan, Perseverance deputy project scientist at the NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California where the rover was built. When is the launch of Perseverance? NASA plans...
29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
... was a close approximation of our helicopter," said MiMi Aung, project manager for the Mars Helicopter at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "But this recent test of the flight model was the real deal...
October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
...rocket start) - is achievable within existing technology boundaries. The only spaceplane currently being proposed that uses jets to reach supersonic speed is the Bristol Spaceplanes Ascender, which is like a second-generation NF-104 but designed from...
