Deep Space spacecraft from the USA, Europe and India are all pressing through their mission milestones. India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) is less than a month away from her arrival at Mars, while NASA’s New Horizons has crossed Nepture’s orbit, en route to Pluto. ESA’s Rosetta mission also announced the shortlisting of landing sites on Comet 67P for the robotic lander, Philae.
With less than 18 days to go before the beginning of NASA’s next scheduled mission…
Using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a group of NASA-funded researchers has discovered…
On October 2, 2021, all actively operating spacecraft at Mars ceased major communication with Earth…
After successfully touching down on the Martian surface on February 18, 2021, NASA teams have…
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft in orbit of Mars has begun a series of aerobraking maneuvers with…
After twenty-nine years of reliable service, United Launch Alliance’s veteran Delta II rocket made its…
SpaceX launched its second mission in two months for Telesat Canada Sunday, with a Falcon…
The Zenit rocket has successfully conducted what is likely to be its final flight Friday,…
European scientists have confirmed their brave little lander Philae has managed to regain communications with…
The next NASA rover to be sent to the surface of Mars has received twice…
Russia launched their Proton rocket Tuesday morning local time, carrying three satellites for the GLONASS…
Russia has conducted the final orbital launch of 2011, as their Soyuz-2-1a/Fregat deploying six Globalstar communications satellites…
A Russian Zenit-2 launch vehicle lofted Russia’s Fobos-Grunt spacecraft into orbit – launching at 02:16 local time on…
