To Celebrate Voyager’s 40th Anniversary, NASA Beams a Message to the Spacecraft
On Sept. 5, 2017 – the 40th anniversary of Voyager 1’s launch — NASA revealed the winning Message To Voyager and beamed it into space. “Message…
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Mission Controller Hipster Fashion
Maybe you’re familiar with the Mowhawk Hair Guy who was part of the mission controller staff for the Mars Curiosity Rover mission? Distinctive hairstyles in space…
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Space Robotics Lecture – What We Can Expect From Future Robotic Missions
The ability to rove the surface of Mars has revolutionized NASA missions. With more advanced mobility, cliff faces, cave ceilings, and the surfaces of asteroids and…
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ESA Hangout: Getting Ready for Rosetta’s Grand Finale
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft is set to complete its incredible mission in a controlled descent to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 30 September. Mission experts joined…
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The Philae Lander Has Been Found!
Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta’s high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.…
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Stress Testing Components for BepiColombo
The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury must withstand extremely harsh conditions while in orbit around the innermost planet of our Solar System: temperatures in excess of…
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NASA Awards Contracts for CubeSat Satellites
NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) has awarded multiple Venture Class Launch Services (VCLS) contracts to provide small satellites (SmallSats) — also called CubeSats, microsats or nanosatellites…
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ESA Vega Rocket Successfully Lifts Off With IXV
Replay of the liftoff of Vega VV04 with ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, IXV, launched from Kourou, French Guiana on 11 February 2015. IXV was launched 340…
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An annotated timeline of the most critical events during the IXV mission. ESA’s wingless spaceplane is set for liftoff on a Vega rocket from Kourou, French…
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ESA’s experimental spaceplane, poised for liftoff on its Vega rocket, is set to showcase the latest technologies and critical systems to extend Europe’s capability for space…
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