March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
...to the approval of further interplanetary missions like Mars Express and Venus Express, he managed to build a network of three deep space antennas: after New Norcia, came Cebreros in Spain which was operational in 2005 and Malargue, Argentina, at the...
20 November 2015
2015 World Technology Summit held In New York City
... Bob Twiggs - Professor of Astronautical Engineering, Morehead State University The nominees in “Space – Institutional” category for 2015 are: Center for SETI Research Deep Space Industries ESA (Rosetta comet mission) Generation Orbit Moog NASA (New...
30 November 2015
“Alien Megastructure” Star's Dimming was Possibly Caused by Comets
... They studied observations made in January 2015 by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which is optimized for observation in infrared wavelengths. Simply ...in both 2011 and 2013 before moving into deep space. When Spitzer was subsequently used in January ...
23 August 2016
NASA Makes Contact with STEREO-B Spacecraft
NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) has locked in a carrier signal from a ... following an October 2014 loss of communications. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The spacecraft had apparently lost attitude control...
30 September 2016
Historic Rosetta mission ends
... Science. "Rosetta was on the drawing board even before ESA's first deep-space mission, Giotto, had taken the first image of a comet nucleus as...this emotional day for both the ESA and the global space industry, as the world says good-bye to Rosetta, ...
02 August 2017
First iodine fuelled thrusters pass critical design tests
... need for an internal hot cathode. The thruster is targeted for use on two deep-space CubeSat missions that will hitch a ride on NASA’s Space Launch System; Morehead State University’s Lunar IceCube and Arizona State University’s LunaH...
