NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover: Sometimes Things Get Complicated
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has a big job to do while roving across Jezero and exploring the Delta Front, which is campaign #2 of the…
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NASA’s CAPSTONE Aces First Targeting Maneuver on Journey to the Moon
After losing communications with CAPSTONE on July 4, the first trajectory correction maneuver, which was originally scheduled for the morning of July 5th, had to…
Surprise – Again! NASA Spacecraft Reveals Asteroid Bennu Is Not What It Seemed
Scientists have learned something astonishing after analyzing data gathered when NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020. The spacecraft would…
NASA’s CAPSTONE Spacecraft: Mission Team Determines Cause of Communications Issue
Mission Team Determines Cause of NASA’s CAPSTONE Communications Issues After its launch on June 28, CAPSTONE orbited Earth attached to Rocket Lab’s Photon upper stage,…
Nervous System Study and Spacewalk Preps Continue on International Space Station
While continuing to host an array of advanced science experiments, the International Space Station (ISS) is also busy with spacewalk preparations. The seven-member Expedition 67…
Webb Space Telescope’s Glorious First Images: Fine Guidance Sensor Provides a Preview
We are just five days away from the July 12th release of the first full-color images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, but how does…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover’s Exploration of Hogwallow Flats – “The Bacon Strip”
Fine-Grained Rocks at Hogwallow Flats NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover’s exploration of the Hawksbill Gap area of the Jezero Delta continues! Over the last few weeks,…
NASA Restores Contact With CAPSTONE Spacecraft – Prepares for Trajectory Correction Maneuver
Mission operators have re-established contact with NASA’s CAPSTONE spacecraft. Mission crews for NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) have re-established…
Astronauts on Space Station Explore Artificial Intelligence and Human Nervous System
On Tuesday, July 5, space physics and human studies dominated the science agenda aboard the International Space Station. The Expedition 67 crew also reconfigured a…
Contact Lost With NASA’s CAPSTONE Spacecraft Flying a New Path to the Moon
Following successful deployment and start of spacecraft commissioning on July 4, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft experienced communications…
Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Measuring War’s Effect on a Global Breadbasket
NASA Harvest scientists use satellite observations and economic data to track how the Russia-Ukraine conflict is disrupting the global food system. When farmers in Ukraine…
CAPSTONE Leaves Earth Orbit, Headed to the Moon
The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE), a small CubeSat, about the size of a microwave oven and weighing just 55…
Significant Progress in NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Solar Array Deployment Fix
Beginning on May 6 and continuing through June 16, NASA’s Lucy mission team carried out a multi-stage effort intended to further deploy the spacecraft’s unlatched…
NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Releasing Spectacular 5.6-Gigapixel Map of the Red Planet
The rainbow-colored map, to be released in batches over six months, covers the vast majority of the planet Mars, revealing dozens of minerals found on…
This Week @NASA: Launching a New Mission Around the Moon
Launching a new mission around the Moon … Preparing the Space Launch System for its first flight … And undocking a resupply spacecraft from the…
NASA’s Artemis Moon Rocket and Spacecraft Arrive at Vehicle Assembly Building
At around 2:30 p.m. ET on July 2, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission were firmly secured…
Astronomer Says New Webb Space Telescope Images “Almost Brought Him to Tears”
The scientific and astronomical communities are eagerly waiting for Tuesday, July 12th, to come around. That is the day when NASA promises to release the…
Help NASA Solve a Fundamental Martian Mystery
Find Clouds on Mars to Help NASA Scientists By spotting clouds in data collected by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the public can increase scientists’ understanding…
