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Jun 7, 2021 · Two new Discovery Program missions are NASA’s first to Venus in nearly 40 years. ... 2021 6:20 PM. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announces two new planetary science missions to Venus for the ...
- Starship SN9 Test Explodes on Landing
- Hope Inserts Itself Into Mars' Orbit
- Tianwen-1 Arrives at Mars
- NASA's Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars
- SN10 Flies High, Nails Landing... Then Explodes
- SpaceX SN11 Launch Ends Explosively, Too
- The Large Hadron Collider Powers Up Again
- Ingenuity Takes Flight on Mars
- SpaceX Crew-2 Launches to The Iss
- China Launches First Space Station Module
Remember the incredible explosion of SpaceX's SN8 prototypein December? SpaceX considers that a success on its way to a fully fledged spacecraft that can get to orbit and -- eventually -- to Mars. In late 2020 or early 2021, Elon Musk's spaceflight company expects to send the next numbered prototype on its way. Its three powerful Raptor engines are...
The United Arab Emirates' Hope (Al Amal) probe, which was launched in July 2020, performed a Mars Orbital Insertion (MOI) on Feb. 9, slipping into the clutches of the red planet's gravity. The maneuver makes the UAE just the fifth nation to reach Mars, following the US, Russia, China and India. The orbiter will observe Mars from space and examine i...
China's Tianwen-1 ("Questions to Heaven") spacecraft is carrying a Martian orbiter, lander and rover as cargoand made its own insertion just a day after Hope. The Chinese mission will not release it's lander or rover immediately to the surface. It's expected to release those vehicles sometime in May. The rover has a lifespan of around 92 days and L...
They did it again! On Feb. 18, NASA engineers and scientists celebrated the arrival of Perseverance on the red planet. There were memes aplenty and one particular engineer who captured people's hearts and minds. It's set to be a huge year for Martian robots and specifically, the quest to find signs of ancient life on the red planet. Along with Pers...
Third time seemed to be the charm for Musk's Starship prototype. The rocket performed a near-perfect launch and a slightly worrisome landing back on the pad in Boca Chica, Texas, but about six minutes after touchdown it achieved a secondary launch -- this time caused by an explosion. Musk detailed the reason for the failuresa couple of days later: ...
Taking off during a foggy Texas morning, the Starship SN11 prototype met the same end as previous Starships: Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. This time, the explosion was caused by "a relatively small" methane leak on board the prototype, according to SpaceX head honcho Musk.
The Large Hadron Collider, the highest-energy particle collider on the planet, has been powered down since Dec. 10, 2018. In March, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) flicked it back on again. The collider has been instrumental in testing predictions of theories in particle physics, including discovery of the Higgs ...
Flying on Earth? Boring, easy, routine, old hat. Flying on Mars? Cool, hard, new, never been done before -- until NASA's Ingenuity rotorcraft achieved the feat on April 19, 2021. The chopper was deposited on the surface of Mars by Perseverancein early April and had looked to fly on the red planet "no earlier than April 11." When Ingenuity took to t...
SpaceX made history when it sent the first commercial crew to the International Space Station aboard Crew-1 in November 2020. On April 22, Crew-2 backed up that achievement, launching NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, plus ESA's Thomas Pesquet and Japan's Akihiko Hoshide. The capsule containing the astronauts was Crew Dragon Endea...
China launched the first module of its planned orbital space stationin April. The module, known as Tianhe-1 ("harmony of the heavens"), will power the whole station and is set to house a crew of three taikonauts on six month stints, much like the International Space Station, when assembly is complete. Almost a dozen missions will be required to com...
Mar 11, 2022 · Within just a couple weeks in 2021, however, Venus scientists suddenly had a veritable banquet to look forward to, with NASA and its European counterpart committing to three new missions due to ...
Jun 21, 2021 · NASA has now selected two complementary missions to explore our sister planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. NASA has announced that Earth’s nearest neighbor, Venus, will be the target of two new exploration missions launching between 2028 and 2030: DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) and VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography ...
Jun 2, 2021 · NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. Part of NASA’s Discovery Program, the missions aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world when it has so many other characteristics similar to ours – and may have been the first habitable world in the solar system, complete with an ocean and Earth-like climate.
VERITAS studies the surface and interior of Venus with a powerful new generation of scientific tools – the first NASA mission to return there since the 1990s. The mission was selected for flight in 2021 as part of NASA's Discovery program. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible for mission management, operations, and navigation.
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Feb 18, 2021 · After a seven-month-long journey, NASA’s Perseverance Rover successfully touched down on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California celebrate landing NASA's fifth -- and most ambitious -- rover on Mars.
