Perseverance drives on Mars’ terrain for first time
As part of its mission, the rover would characterise the Red Planet's geology and past climate, and pave the way for human exploration of Mars.
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As part of its mission, the rover would characterise the Red Planet's geology and past climate, and pave the way for human exploration of Mars.
TROPICS' objective to enhance the world's understanding of deadly storms directly aligns with Astra's mission to improve life on earth from space.
Over the course of several years, Perseverance will collect samples that will be sent back to Earth for lab analysis.
Axioms AX-1 mission will launch former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and three paying customers to the station in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule next year.
NASA says it will offer "in-kind services" to Roscosmos in exchange for a seat on the next Soyuz launch to the ISS.
The Mars Ice Mapper mission will aim to detect the location, depth, spatial extent, and the abundance of near-surface ice deposits.
The data collected will help astronomers understand how the universe was created.
Gavin Schmidt, an expert in climate modelling, will help ensure the Biden Administration has crucial data to inform its emissions reduction goals.
A second Hot-Fire test gives the agency a chance to conduct three special gimbaling experiments that werent completed in the first attempt.
The rock and regolith that Perseverances Sample Caching System collects from Jezero could help answer fundamental questions about the existence of life beyond Earth.
Jurczyk has been the agency's associate administrator since May 2018 and has worked at NASA since 1988.
IM has been chosen by NASA to deliver the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment (PRIME-1) drill, combined with a mass spectrometer, to the Moon by December 2022.
The Lunar Trailblazer will detect signatures of water ice in reflected light, and it will pinpoint the locations of micro-cold traps less than a football field in size.
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will now undergo a series of exhaustive checks and calibrations before it starts collecting science data in a few months' time.
NASA also released the report of a Mars Sample Return Independent Review Board, which has been established to evaluate the status of the multi-year international partnership with ESA.
The station, weighing about 40 metric tons, will be automatically assembled piece by piece in a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the moon.
Under the Artemis Accords, signatories agree to conduct all activities for peaceful purposes and to publicly and transparently describe their policies and plans.
Under the new partnership, Emirati astronauts Hazzaa AlMansoori and Sultan AlNeyadi will undergo specialised training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The mission will carry NASA astronauts along with JAXA mission specialist Soichi Noguchi for a six-month science mission aboard the orbiting laboratory.
The UAE's Mars Mission Hope Probe is scheduled to lift off on July 17 at 12:43 am UAE time from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan.
This launch is the first conducted by Rocket Lab since Covid-19 national restrictions were eased earlier this month.
The documentary features exclusive access to the journey leading up to the landmark mission.
The study will focus on establishing a ground station in South Africa to support human spaceflight missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
The Falcon 9 rocket carried a Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board.
TVU will deploy its IP-based TVU Grid solution to help with the global distribution of multiple live video pool feeds positioned to cover the launch of the commercial craft’s dragon ...
Students can submit their graduation photos on SpaceX's website, the deadline for which is May 20.
The rockets empty core stage, weighing nearly 18 tons, is the largest piece of space debris to fall uncontrolled back to Earth since 1991.
The satellites AERO and VISTA will house a novel electromagnetic vector sensor antenna developed by MITs Lincoln Laboratory.
The ‘Mission: Impossible’ star Tom Cruise is known for his action-adventure films and for doing his own stunts.
The proposed timeframe for the mission is said to be no earlier than mid-to-late May, NASA said on its website.
The engineering teams from Airbus, the European Space Agency (ESA), Lockheed Martin and NASA were involved in the testing.
The SLS is being designed to be the rocket platform that sends humans back to the Moon and deeper into the solar system.
The mission will study the Sun to improve our understanding of how it creates the heliosphere, the vast bubble surrounding the solar system.
The Solar Orbiter mission, which is led by the ESA, will join NASAs Parker Solar Probe in studying the Sun at proximity.
Through this launch, the company aims to demonstrate the future ability to convert spent upper stages of rockets in orbit into commercial habitats.
The experiment was transported to space by SpaceXs Dragon, propelled by the companys Falcon 9 rocket. The mission departed from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, carrying the experiment and a ...
Under the supervision of researchers and trainers from ESA, the two astronauts were trained on the scientific experiments they will be working on during their time onboard.
Hazza Al Mansouri and Sultan Al Neyadi from the UAE have reached advanced training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Centre in Russia.
Built on Lockheed Martin?s enhanced LM 2100 platform, Arabsat-6A includes several innovations that provide advanced Kaspot beam communications services and Ku and Ka-band coverages in addition to other frequency bands.
Wolters Kluwer?s health support resource for astronauts, UpToDate offers latest health information and can be used with limited internet connectivity through UpToDate MobileComplete by downloading content to an iPad.
Thales Alenia Space will provide key communication equipment from its facilities in Spain and Belgium for NASA?s missions that will seek answers addressing the Earth?s changing climate and unveil some ...
James Bridenstine and Ahmad Al Falasi.NASA and the UAE Space Agency (UAESA) have signed an Implementing Arrangement (IA) that outlines cooperation across a range of areas ...
A Lockheed Martin engineer inspects one of the 3D printed dome prototypes, the final dome measures 46 inches in diameter, large enough to fit 74.4 gallons ...
Eutelsat Communications has announced that the NASA High Definition (NTV-3) and NASA Ultra High Definition (NTV-4) channels are broadcasting in free-to-air via satellite for the first time across Europe, the ...
ViaSat Inc has announced it supplied NASA and its partners, with high-quality airborne satellite broadband communications for research purposes during the August 21 Great American solar eclipse.Using its satellite broadband network coupled ...
Google has just released Street View?s first gravity-free collection ? letting you virtually explore the International Space Station (ISS) in 360-degree imagery from Google Maps and Earth. The ISS in ...
Harris Corporation has received a $316 million cost-plus-award-fee contract modification to build two payloads for the fourth and fifth weather satellites in the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administrations (NOAA) Joint ...
SSL announced that it has been selected by NASA for a multi-million dollar contract to develop on-orbit robotic satellite assembly technology. The project is part of NASAs Tipping Point initiative ...
