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Hot Pursuit: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Completes 18th Close Approach to the Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe successfully completed its 18th close approach to the Sun on December 28, 2023, matching previous distance and speed records, and communicated its healthy status back to mission control. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Brian MonroeParker Solar Probe’s 18th close approach to the Sun set distance and speed records, marking a key milestone in its
NASA’s 46-year-old Voyager 1 probe is no longer transmitting data
Artist's illustration of Voyager 1 probe looking back at the solar system from a great distance. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)) NASA's Voyager 1 probe is currently unable to transmit any scientific or systems data back to Earth. The 46-year-old spacecraft is capable of receiving commands, but a problem seems to have
NASA’s Artemis II crew meets their Moonship
Enlarge / Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen pose with their Orion spacecraft at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Trevor Mahlmann The three Americans and one Canadian slated to fly on NASA's Artemis II circumlunar mission had a "pinch me" moment Monday when they got
NASA’s Mars Sample Return in jeopardy after US Senate report
News Spaceflight Artist's conception of the vehicles that would participate in a Mars sample return by NASA and the European Space Agency. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is facing some tough scrutiny. The Senate Appropriations Committee offered their recommendations on the spending bill for fiscal year 2024, and they do not provide all
Nasa’s new 3d-printed superalloy can handle high temperatures
Multiprincipal-element alloys are an important class of materials due to their mechanical and oxidation-resistant properties. A team of innovators from NASA and The Ohio State University detailed the characteristics of the new alloy, GRX-810, an oxide-dispersion-strengthened NiCoCr-based alloy. GRX-810 uses laser powder bed fusion to disperse nanoscale Y2O3 particles throughout the microstructure without resource-intensive processing
This is the spacesuit NASA’s Artemis astronauts will wear on the Moon
NASA and Axiom Space are finally ready to show what Artemis III astronauts will wear when they walk on the Moon. The two have unveiled a prototype spacesuit that crews will use for moonwalks near the lunar South Pole. As promised, the design is meant to accommodate a wider range of body types. It's also
A camera on one of the Orion spacecraft’s solar arrays captured this view of the moon, with distant Earth in the background a quarter-million miles away. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight NowNASA’s unpiloted Orion spacecraft fired its main engine for two-and-a-half minutes Monday just before the capsule soared 81 miles from the surface of the
Watch live: NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket arrives at launch pad
NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building. Credit: NASAAfter replacing and recharging batteries in the Vehicle Assembly Building, NASA ground teams plan to roll the more than 30-story-tall Space Launch System rocket back to its launch pad early Friday at Kennedy Space Center for another try Nov.
Progress on NASA’s New Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) Moon Rover
NASA astronaut kneeling in from on the new Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) on the surface of the moon. Credit: NASADuring Artemis missions, as NASA astronauts explore the South Pole region of the Moon, they will be able to go farther and conduct more science than ever before using a new Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV). Instead
NASA’s Lucy to fly past thousands of objects for Earth gravity assist
NASA's Lucy Mission passes an asteroid. Artist rendition. Credit: NASA/SWRI Mission engineers will track NASA's Lucy spacecraft nonstop as it prepares to swoop near Earth on Oct. 16 to use this planet's gravity to set itself on a course toward the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. But they also will be closely tracking something else: more than