9 Jul 2019, 13:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The ships are powered by three radioisotope thermoelectric generators that create heat through the natural decay of plutonium-238
3 Jul 2019, 15:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The 2020 rover's Terrain-Relative Navigation system will guide the spacecraft down towards a safe landing in the Jezero crater on Mars
2 Jul 2019, 15:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA announces the list of 12 science and technology payloads that will be included in the recently born Artemis Moon program
2 Jul 2019, 13:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA’s Orion Spacecraft passes launch abort test with flying colors, sending the spacecraft on direct course to its first true mission next year
1 Jul 2019, 09:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Five electric motors are used to drive the arm of the rover, and the five joints allow it to bend to the required angle for the task ahead
28 Jun 2019, 08:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The mission will launch in 2026 and will land on Titan eight years later, in 2034. The projected lenght of its mission on the surface is 2.7 years
26 Jun 2019, 15:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The naming competition for the new Mars rover will begin this fall, supported by Battelle Education and Future Engineers.
26 Jun 2019, 09:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / X-59 QueSST supersonic airplane to use a 4K monitor instead of a forward-facing window, called eXternal Visibility System (XVS)
24 Jun 2019, 09:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This is the first time the rocket is scheduled to take off at night and the first for the Heavy using side boosters that were flown before
21 Jun 2019, 15:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Fitted on top of a rocket provided by Northrop Grumman, the Orion will abort launch at 31,000 feet and a speed of 1.3 Mach
21 Jun 2019, 09:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The wheels you see fitted on the machine are not the actual ones the rover will use in its mission, but they are engineering models
18 Jun 2019, 08:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured an image of an impact crater that formed between September 2016 and February 2019
14 Jun 2019, 15:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / JPL systems engineer Jim Lewis explains in a NASA video how the MOXIE experiment on the Mars 2020 rover will generate oxygen
10 Jun 2019, 13:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If successful, the Mars helicopter flight in 2021will allow for aerial reconnaissance of alien worlds from altitudes much more revealing than the distant orbit
10 Jun 2019, 10:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA opens the International Space Station for commercial businesses and tourists, one night in orbit to cost around $35,000
10 Jun 2019, 09:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A live webcam at NASA's JPL in Pasadena, California, shows in real time all that goes on in the bay where the rover is being assembled
6 Jun 2019, 13:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines and Orbit Beyond to fly missions to the Moon for NASA ahead of the human return there in 2024
6 Jun 2019, 09:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Deep Space Atomic Clock will help future spacecraft determine their position with the same accuracy as GPS systems presently do
30 May 2019, 15:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The last surviving rover on Mars, Curiosity, struck a rich deposit of clay, a good indication that at one point there was liquid water on Mars
30 May 2019, 13:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Twelve of the Draco thrusters were fired successfully, and the unknown anomaly that lead to the explosion occurred only when the SuperDraco system was activated