Lacie Fradet, a project engineer at Motiv Space Systems in Pasadena, with COLDArm, a robotic arm for a lunar rover that’s designed to function in the extremely low temperatures of the moon’s south pole. When NASA’s new lunar rover lands on the moon’s south pole next year, it will encounter a whole new kind of cold. “But getting even colder,” …
You may have seen the story about the Psyche mission, in which NASA is preparing to launch a spacecraft that will travel to an asteroid in search of information that might unlock some of the mysteries of the universe. This is pretty cool.” In the fall of 2007, Dominguez was assigned as a part-time student intern to JPL engineer David …
NASA engineers plan to send a miniature helicopter whirring just above the surface of Mars next month in an interplanetary aviation experiment that, if successful, would mark the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another celestial body. The US space agency is comparing the Martian debut of its 4-lb solar-powered whirlybird, dubbed Ingenuity, with the Wright Brothers' first …
