The New Horizons mission currently flying through the Kuiper Belt could be facing an unexpected change of plans. NASA's Science Mission Directorate is soliciting input on turning the spacecraft into a heliospheric science ...
Space Exploration
Apr 17, 2023
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A European spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a decadelong quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons that could hold buried oceans.
Space Exploration
Apr 14, 2023
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A groundbreaking new mass spectrometer designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has been delivered for integration onto NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. Scheduled to launch in 2024 and arrive in the Jovian ...
Space Exploration
Jan 5, 2023
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An unmanned U.S. military space plane landed early Saturday after spending a record 908 days in orbit for its sixth mission and conducting science experiments.
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2022
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If space is the final frontier, it's food that will get us there in good shape, and UBC researchers are making sure that our food will be up to the task.
Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2022
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NASA announced Friday the agency decided its Psyche mission will go forward, targeting a launch period opening on Oct. 10, 2023.
Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2022
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Since mid-September 2022, NASA-funded instruments have been hitching rides on commercial aircraft and collecting environmental data over New Zealand. The collaboration with Air New Zealand is the first known data-collecting ...
Planetary Sciences
Oct 13, 2022
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NASA will on Monday attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating ...
Planetary Sciences
Sep 26, 2022
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Bet the dinosaurs wish they'd thought of this.
Planetary Sciences
Sep 23, 2022
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NASA's Scientific Balloon Program is moving full-steam ahead into the fall 2022 campaign with six scientific, engineering, and student balloon flights supporting 17 missions. The flights are scheduled to launch from Fort ...
Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2022
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