After a 10 month journey between planets, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has arrived at the Mars on Sunday, 21 September 2014 for a mission dedicated to detailed exploration of the Martian atmosphere. Insertion into Martian orbit occurred at around 21:50 EDT, followed by a commissioning period and observation of comet Siding Spring throughout October.
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has provided an encouraging report card on the…
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has begun its journey to Mars following its launch atop the United…
With less than 18 days to go before the beginning of NASA’s next scheduled mission…
Lockheed Martin engineers have completed the assembly of NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN)…
Three days after a spectacularly successful landing on the surface of Mars, the InSight lander,…
For the second time in its career, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is hunkering down…
NASA’s InSight mission began a six-month journey to Mars on Saturday with liftoff aboard United…
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United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched a Delta IV rocket on Wednesday evening, carrying the…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has began a seven-year round trip to the asteroid Bennu on Thursday,…
As part of its increasing dedication and ramp up of activities at the red planet,…
Europe’s ExoMars orbiter has begun its journey to the Red Planet on Monday with its…
With the abundance of discoveries in planetary science this year, none was truly more important…
Orbital ATK’ Cygnus resupply spacecraft finally returned to flight on Sunday following weather scrubs over…
United Launch Alliance has conducted its hundredth launch Friday with a rare commercial mission on…
United Launch Alliance conducted its first launch of 2015 on Tuesday, with an Atlas V…
Mars dominated planetary research headlines in 2014 as an international fleet of orbiters and NASA’s…
Following last week’s dramatic exploits of Rosetta’s Philae lander on the surface of a comet,…