29 April 2020
NASA's new solar sail system to be tested on-board NanoAvionics' satellite
... deployment systems for a solar sail. It will guide the development of a next generation nanosatellites with solar sail propulsion system for small inter-planetary spacecraft." As part of this agreement the company will also supply a mechanical...
05 January 2018
Gilmour Space completes successful test of hybrid rocket engine
... ignition temperature of our fuel.” The company has already completed tests of its mini hybrid-propulsion engine – the Cubesat In-Space Propulsion System – that could one day be used to send a 1U CubeSat from Earth’s orbit to that of other...
05 July 2016
Success for JUNO!
...It’s a great day.” Last night at 11.53 p.m. EDT, Juno tracking data alerted the navigation facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California of a successful orbit insertion sequence by the spacecraft, burning up 785 kilograms...
26 August 2016
All eyes on Jupiter as Juno moves in close tomorrow
... closely, or over the poles in this fashion," said Steve Levin, Juno project scientist from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "This is our first opportunity and there are bound to be surprises. We need to take our...
10 March 2017
New interplanetary radar technique spots "lost" lunar spacecraft
...] and the “lost” Indian Space Research Organisation's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. Pioneered by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the technique involves sending a powerful beam of microwaves directed toward the Moon...
13 March 2017
Europa Clipper: the official name of NASA's mission to Europa
... 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 agency...
