13 March 2019
'Marscopter' to accompany rover on Mars 2020 mission
... 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 deal...
27 December 2019
Mars 2020 aeroshell’s impressive pedigree
... 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 of the...
18 June 2020
Countdown to NASA’s new Mars rover launch
... 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 to launch...
29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
... 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. This...
03 January 2020
China tests mini solar sail in space
Soaring through space propelled by little more than sunlight is a technical ideal that agencies and organisations are now exploring as a viable means of transportation. Last year, the Planetary Society successfully deployed its own LightSail 2; a ...
01 April 2020
Rocket Propulsion
... the rocket engineers out there! Developed by its authors for propulsion students, it is dense with graphs and equations and includes ... and pretty much everything from thermochemistry to electric propulsion. Each chapter has a further reading list and...
