By Ben Evans, on July 29th, 2020
ULA’s Atlas V rocket stands poised to launch NASA’s next rover to Mars, Perseverance, from Cape Canaveral AFS at 7:50am EDT on July 30. Photo: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.com
United Launch Alliance (ULA) stands ready to deliver NASA’s long-awaited Perseverance rover to Mars on Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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By Ben Evans, on July 29th, 2020
OTD in 1960, NASA’s effort to someday put an American into orbit suffered a setback with the MA-1 launch failure. […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 24th, 2020
Seventy years ago today, Cape Canaveral shook to the roar of its very first rocket launch: the flight of Bumper 8. […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on July 16th, 2020
“Campfires” seen on the Sun by Solar Orbiter. They may help explain why the Sun’s atmosphere is 300 times hotter than its surface. Image Credit: Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL
Solar Orbiter, a joint mission between NASA and ESA to study the Sun in unprecedented detail, has […]
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By Ben Evans, on June 29th, 2020
Unlocking the secrets of the Red Planet has proven a difficult endeavor over the last six decades. No less than five U.S. space missions have failed to reach it as Mars closely guards her secrets. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL
It’s almost Mars Month and from 17 July through 11 August the next biannual “launch window” […]
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By Ben Evans, on May 5th, 2020
One of the few grainy images of Shepard, acquired during his brief moments of weightlessness. Photo Credit: NASA
“A damn fine month,” actor Morgan Freeman’s character Ellis “Red” Redding remarked in the movie Shawshank Redemption and, indeed, for America’s space program, the month of May—newly dawned—has long been a historic one for off-the-planet U.S. […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on March 9th, 2020
The 70-meter-wide (230-feet-wide) radio antenna at the Deep Space Network’s Canberra site in Australia. It is the only antenna that that communicate with Voyager 2 from the southern hemisphere, and will be undergoing crucial upgrades for 11 months beginning in March. Photo Credit: NASA/Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
With so many space missions currently exploring […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on December 18th, 2019
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter, an international cooperative mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, is seen here in final processing for launch at the Astrotech Space Operations payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida on Dec 16. Photo Credit: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.com
We’ve been hearing a lot about NASA’s Parker Solar Probe […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on December 4th, 2019
Artist’s concept of Parker Solar Probe during a close flyby of the Sun. Image Credit: Steve Gribben/NASA/JH-APL
Thanks to NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP), scientists are now learning more about the Sun than ever possible before. The newest findings were announced this morning during a media teleconference.
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on November 25th, 2019
Color-coded image of Jezero Crater and the landing site of Mars 2020 (in the ellipse). The delta is on the western side of the crater. Darker colors are lower elevation and lighter colors are higher. Image Credit: NASA/JPL
For the past few decades, rovers and landers on Mars have focused on finding out whether […]
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