13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
... protects the craft (the payload fairing) atop of a Mitsubishi H-IIA booster, will be powered by energy collected from solar panels which provide 600 Watts of power at Mars – the spacecraft requirement is 477 W. Despite a gloomy weather forecast...
22 March 2021
The first look at Ingenuity on Mars
... had at least have survived launch. But, once deployed on Mars' surface, it will be down to the helicopter's own solar panel, which is mounted atop its rotor system, to charge the batteries. Like its name suggests Ingenuity is equipped...
24 May 2021
A CubeSat that produces visible light on the ground to be launched in NASA initiative
... spacecraft will include a UHF antenna led by the CETYS Universidad team, in Baja California, Mexico, xenon flashtubes, solar panels, an onboard computer, transceiver and a deployable gravity gradient boom that orients the light toward Earth. The...
02 November 2020
ISS marks 20 years of humans on board
..., two bathrooms and a 360-degree bay window -- the cupola -- that allows views of Earth. Large arrays of solar panels power its systems, while liquid propellant rocket engines keep it from losing altitude. The space station...
