1,300-pound NASA satellite set to crash down to Earth today after 14 years in space

A 1,300-pound NASA probe is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere today, nearly 14 years after it was launched. The Van Allen Probe A, which was launched in August 2012, is likely to reenter Earth's ...

Skywatch: Adjusting for a new season of discovery

Here in southern New England, the land of four distinct seasons, spring is on our doorstep. This month's vernal equinox, the moment the sun crosses the equator from south to north, comes at 10:46 a.m.

NASA’s Dragonfly will land on Titan then do something no spacecraft has done before

NASA's Dragonfly mission will revolutionize planetary exploration by deploying a rotorcraft lander to Titan, Saturn's largest ...

With Gateway likely gone, where will lunar landers rendezvous with Orion?

This is all well and good, but it neglects a critical element of the Artemis program: a lander capable of taking astronauts down to the lunar surface from an orbit around the Moon and back up to ...
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Jared Isaacman on rebuilding, Artemis and what he’s learned during his first months as NASA administrator

Isaacman also has been driven by something else that took place the day he was sworn in: the release of an executive order on space policy. That directive calls on NASA to return humans to the moon by ...

NASA is overhauling its Artemis program. What does that mean for humanity's return to the moon?

In a major shakeup of the Artemis program, NASA is adding more missions to its timeline to land astronauts on the moon in 2028.
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PwC Projects $127 Billion Moon Economy - But Energy Infrastructure May Be the Real Bottleneck

As NASA revises Artemis and PwC projects $127B in lunar revenues by 2050, experts warn that reliable non-solar power - not just transport - will determine the Moon economy's future.
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NASA Uses Mars Global Localization As GNSS Replacement For The Perseverance Rover

Unlike on Earth there aren’t dozens of satellites whizzing around Mars to provide satellite navigation functionality. Recently NASA’s JPL engineers tried something with the ...
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NASA’s Major Blow to the Moon Exploration Program Could Actually Be a Blessing in Disguise

American space agency NASA announced a major revamp of the Artemis Moon exploration program, lunar landing coming in 2028 ...
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AI Might Be Coming For NASA Mars Rover Driver's Job After Its First Test Run

Artificial intelligence has been advancing at an exponential rate over the past few years, prompting widespread concern that AI could start taking jobs away from real people. Unfortunately for the ...
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Perseverance’s Landing

NASA’s Perseverance Rover approaches Mars in this Feb. 18, 2020, top-down still image captured by a camera on the rover’s descent stage. Perseverance is searching for signs of ancient microbial life, ...
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NASA's Perseverance rover now has its own 'GPS' on Mars: 'We've given the rover a new ability'

NASA's Perseverance rover can now pinpoint its exact location on Mars without help from Earth, paving the way for longer, more autonomous exploration.