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, …
On April 13, 2023, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch a rocket carrying a spacecraft destined for Jupiter. Three of Jupiter’s moons – Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – are home to large, underground oceans of liquid water that could support life. Upcoming missions from ESA and NASA JUICE and Europa Clipper are set up to give scientists game-changing …
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 …