NASA fully intends to send humans back to the Moon sooner rather than later. Despite funding woes, the agency is still doing its best to hold true to a 2024 deadline set forth by the Trump administration, and things are slowly beginning to come together. In a new blog post, NASAContinue Reading
WASHINGTON-On the face of it, NASA’s newest probe sounds incredible. Known as Dragonfly, it is a dual-rotor quadcopter (technically an octocopter, even more technically an X8 octocopter); it’s roughly the size of a compact car; it’s completely autonomous; it’s nuclear powered; and it will hover above the surface of Saturn’sContinue Reading
NASA has partnered with Advanced Space of Boulder, Colorado, to develop a cubesat satellite that will launch to the same lunar orbit targeted for the agency’s Gateway outpost. The satellite, called the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE), is scheduled to launch as early as December 2020Continue Reading
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is preparing to weather the arrival of Hurricane Dorian, which could hit Florida early next week. Those preparations include preparing to protect the massive Mobile Launcher that is currently on a launch pad undergoing testing in part of NASA’s Artemis program to land astronauts on the moon in 2024,Continue Reading
How well can a vehicle fly in the Mars atmosphere? NASA just got a step closer to finding out, announcing Wednesday that its Mars Helicopter has been attached to the Mars Rover it intends to send to the Red Planet next year. The 2020 Mars Rover should arrive on the planet in February 2021,Continue Reading
A HUGE pumice of volcanic debris from an underwater volcano eruption is heading towards the Great Barrier Reef – and it could help save the dwindling system, NASA has claimed. A submarine volcano near the Polynesian island of Tonga in Oceana exploded two weeks ago, creating a great deal of ash andContinue Reading