04 December 2017
After 37 years, Voyager 1 fires up dormant thrusters
... encounter with Saturn in November 1980. Back then, the TCM thrusters were used in a more continuous firing mode and they had never been used to orient the spacecraft. After firing up the four TCM thrusters...
27 April 2018
Another milestone for the SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft
... families, is already a leader in state-of-the-art propulsion technologies and the Arclight’s customisable in orbit service modes will assist the SPACE DRONE™ in completing its various mission phases. Speaking of the announcement, Stefan Hässler...
11 May 2018
Revolutionary X-Ray navigation system to be used on CubeSat mission
... of XNAV could help propel the technology to maturity. “This is a push to move the technology into the operational mode,” said SEXTANT Project Manager Jason Mitchell. “This is great opportunity for XNAV and showing its value...
27 July 2018
A pool of liquid water found under Mars' south pole
... over ways in which to improve upon information collected by the spacecraft, the team came up with a new operating mode to bypass some onboard processing. “Now we see things that simply were not possible before,” added Cicchetti...
19 October 2018
Countdown begins for the launch of BepiColombo
... the rocket's 'upper stage', teams at ESOC will take over to get the spacecraft into normal operational mode — a process that is expected to take about four days. Then hopefully it is bon voyage for the next seven...
14 February 2020
Arrokoth helps resolve longstanding controversy on Solar System evolution
... points to particle-cloud collapse models, and all but rule out hierarchical accretion for the formation mode of Arrokoth, and by inference, other planetesimals,” Stern said. This marks a “significant advance in understanding overall planetesimal and...
