Other
“NASA’s Mars 2020 mission has begun the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase of its development, on track for a July 2020 launch to Mars. The first planned ATLO activities will involve electrical integration of flight hardware into …
“Data collected by NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter indicate that the atmospheric winds of the gas-giant planet run deep into its atmosphere and last longer than similar atmospheric processes found here on Earth. The findings will improve understanding of …
“SpaceX has launched its 50th Falcon 9 rocket mission, and on board is its largest ever geostationary satellite payload, a Hispasat unit that’s around the size of a city bus. The launch took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida …
“Airbus is developing the CIMON astronaut assistance system for the DLR Space Administration Alexander Gerst will test the technology demonstrator aboard the ISS Watson AI (IBM’s artificial intelligence technology) is designed to support space flight crews Friedrichshafen / Bremen, 26 …
“Much like detectives who study fingerprints to identify the culprit, scientists used NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to find the “fingerprints” of water in the atmosphere of a hot, bloated, Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 light-years away. And, they …
“You’ve heard of NASA’s X1 robotic exoskeleton, right? It’s the robot a human can wear over his or her body to either assist or inhibit movement in leg joints. Well, now NASA’s Wearable Robotics Laboratory, in …
“There are parts of the world still without mobile service. But Nokia and Vodafone are bringing 4G coverage to the moon. The first cosmic cellular network will support a planned lunar landing by private space company PTScientists. Celebrating 50 years …
“A company that aims to build big structures in space has just set a record here on Earth. California-based Made In Space earned a Guinness World Record for “World’s Longest 3D Printed Nonassembled Piece,” company representatives announced Thursday (Feb …
” SpaceX on Feb. 22 launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Spanish-owned radar-imaging satellite and two demonstration satellites for SpaceX’s proposed broadband Starlink broadband constellation. The 9:17 a.m. Eastern launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California …
“NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity keeps providing surprises about the Red Planet, most recently with observations of possible “rock stripes.” The ground texture seen in recent images from the rover resembles a smudged version of very distinctive stone stripes …