WASHINGTON — NASA is developing an updated rideshare policy for science missions that reflects both new launch opportunities as well as challenges faced in accommodating secondary payloads. During a presentation at a meeting last month of the National Academies’ Committee on Solar and Space Physics, Aly Mendoza-Hill, head of the […]
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NASA is gearing up for an exciting return to the Moon, marking over 50 years since the last Apollo mission. The United States has set the stage for this cosmic endeavour, scheduling the launch of the Peregrine lander this month. Developed by the American company Astrobotic, Peregrine is anticipated to […]
WASHINGTON — The head of NASA’s space technology directorate warned an advisory group of a “significant impact” to some programs if the Senate version of an appropriations bill for 2024 becomes law. Speaking at a Nov. 30 meeting of the NASA Advisory Council’s technology, innovation and engineering meeting, Prasun Desai, […]
HELSINKI — NASA-funded researchers have been granted permission to apply for access to China’s Chang’e-5 lunar samples in an exception to a prohibition on bilateral activities. An internal email sent Nov. 29 informed NASA researchers that they would be able to apply to the China National Space Administration (CNSA) for […]
Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes and hold fascinating secrets and clues about the origins of the Universe. The majority of the space rocks come from our Solar System’s main asteroid belt, situated between Mars and Jupiter. Around a million of these asteroids make up the belt and orbit […]
Mary Cleave, the NASA astronaut who in 1989 became the first woman to fly on a space shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster, has died at the age of 76, the space agency announced on Wednesday. NASA did not give a cause of death. “I’m sad we’ve lost trail blazer […]
WASHINGTON — Citing budget uncertainty, NASA is pushing back the launch of the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan by a year and postponing a key milestone in its development. In a presentation at a Nov. 28 meeting of NASA’s Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG), Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s […]
Hitchin-born Dr Nicola Fox, 54, is only the second woman to hold the post since the space agency was founded in 1958. She told Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs her father Eric, an engineer at Vauxhall, had followed all the NASA astronaut programmes. She added: “It was important for him […]