19 February 2018
TESS arrives in Florida ahead of its April launch
... for launch at Kennedy’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF), the same clean room used by NASA’s Cassini, New Horizons, Mars rovers and OSIRIS-REx missions, to name but a few, before their launches. Once deployed from...
31 December 2018
Discovering Pluto: exploration at the edge of the solar system
... book traces the story of Pluto from the historical (c.1900) search for trans-Neptunian objects to the New Horizons flyby in 2015. Although the chapter design is seamless, it is very much a book of two parts: the first 300...
March 2015
Twinkle, twinkle satellite
...Sputnik launch. Yet far beyond politics, any kind of new technology naturally inspires apprehension. Until we get used to ...– it is, in fact, a powerful technology that opens up new horizons for people who aren’t used to dreaming big. It’s ultimately ...
04 August 2015
Pluto, Charon, Lovecraft, Tolkien and other geek culture staples we should use on new worlds
... we have highly detailed pictures of Pluto and Charon – all thanks to the historic Plut flyby undertaken by the New Horizons mission – we must go about naming all of those craters and chasms and dark spots on them. Some first...
12 October 2015
2,000 Delegates Arrive in Jerusalem for Space Industry's Premier Annual Event
... Speaking with reporters, Bolden focused on the New Horizons mission, which reached Pluto in recent months ...human history.” While in Jerusalem, Aldrin also helped launch a new initiative together with the Israel Space Agency, the Israeli Science ...
20 November 2015
2015 World Technology Summit held In New York City
...: Center for SETI Research Deep Space Industries ESA (Rosetta comet mission) Generation Orbit Moog NASA (New Horizons mission) Virgin Galactic Both Winners and Finalists will be inducted into the membership of the WTN, which...
