21 November 2016
The grandest of canyons is found on Mercury with the aid of MESSENGER
... – was found using stereo images from NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft. Its discovery reveals important clues as to the geologic history of the innermost planet in our solar system as the...
17 May 2017
SLS/Orion mission delayed until 2019
... highlighted in a recent audit by NASA’s Office of Inspector General. NASA has been hard at work constructing the Orion spacecraft, its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the ground and launch facilities (Ground Systems Development...
26 March 2018
Traveler program gets a boost with NanoRacks
Kuang-Chi Group, the Shenzhen-based technology company, is hoping to start making its mark in the New Space industry by announcing a partnership with NanoRacks LLC, to focus on the development of the company’s Near Space Traveler program outside of ...
20 April 2018
Jim Bridenstine confirmed as new NASA Administrator
... the newly appointed Administrator? At the hearing, Bridenstine 100 percent supported the continued development of the Orion spacecraft and his stance on a permanent US lunar outpost echoes that of the President’s longer-term outlook. It will...
18 June 2018
ESA Council backs Lunar gateway venture
... missions to the Moon and Mars. ESA is also busy building a European Service Module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft - another project designed to take humans deeper into space. Orion – named after one of the largest constellations...
22 August 2018
Definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface
...the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) onboard India's Chandrayaan-1 mission launched in 2008. In the past, both the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) detected signatures that were interpreted as water reflected from the...
