The king of the planets is at its most glorious this month, shining brilliantly high in the south all night long. On 6 December, Jupiter is at its closest to the Earth – 612 million km away – while the next day it’s directly opposite the Sun in our skies. It will fly past Europa and Jupiter’s outer moon Callisto, …
A rocket carrying the robotic explorer Juice takes off from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana on Friday, beginning its journey to explore Jupiter and three of its ice-encrusted moons. When contact finally was confirmed close to an hour into the flight, the European Space Agency’s Mission Control in Germany declared: “The spacecraft is alive!” It will take the robotic explorer, …
Turn to CNN for live coverage from Kennedy Space Center in Florida this week. As part of NASA’s collaboration with the European Space Agency, which provided the service module for Orion, a small Shaun the Sheep toy will also be an Artemis passenger. NASA A number of the items – such as space science badges from the Girl Scouts of …
New York CNN Business — NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, slated for take off as soon as this March, aims to send an Orion spacecraft around the moon. “Lockheed is leading the effort and we’re happy to enablethat in terms of providing a platform, just like we would do with other technology demonstrations that we think could hold future benefits,” NASA’s …