24 November 2021
Astronomers discover more than 350 possible new exoplanets
.... Launched by NASA on 7 March, 2009, the Kepler space telescope has in its lifetime helped to discover more than 2,600...up to more than 500,000. But, after nine years in deep space, Kepler ran out of fuel and NASA decided to retire the spacecraft...
18 March 2022
Rocket roll time for NASA’s new Moonshot
...site for this momentous occasion and in scenes I had not witnessed since the final Space Shuttle mission in 2011, the giant crawler made is way slowly from the VAB ... Gateway in orbit around the Moon, are NASA’s foundation for deep space exploration.
08 February 2019
Mars MarCO CubeSats go quiet
... by survival: If they were able to operate in deep space at all, they would be pushing the limits of experimental...with experimental technology that cost a fraction of what most space missions do: $18.5 million provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
19 June 2019
Honeysuckle Creek: the story of Tom Reid, a little dish and Neil Armstrong’s first step
...Australians and is a welcome addition to the library of space-related biographies. It comes complete with 14 pages of chapter... (the 85ft dish was moved to the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex in 1982). Even during Apollo, Honeysuckle...
