It is in many ways high summer for NASA’s fleet of robotic spacecraft deployed throughout the solar system. On Monday evening, as the fireworks were lighting up the night sky across much of the United States, the space agency’s latest probe, Juno, arrived in orbit around Jupiter. Coming nearly five years after it launched from […]
Surviving the threat of cancellation following discovery of significant problems with one of its main instruments, NASA’s InSight Mars mission, which had been scheduled to launch this month, has new life, and a new launch date. NASA Press Release: NASA Targets May 2018 Launch of Mars InSight Mission NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy […]
A key element of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission, or ARM, is being pushed back one year. According to reports from a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council’s human exploration and operations committee which took place last week, ARM’s program director Michele Gates said: “Under the new schedule, the ARM robotic mission would launch in December […]
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