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Aging, overworked and underfunded: NASA faces a dire future, according to experts
3 months, 1 week ago

Aging, overworked and underfunded: NASA faces a dire future, according to experts

LA Times  

Aging infrastructure, short-term thinking, and ambitions that far outstrip its funding are just a few of the problems threatening the future of America’s vaunted civil space agency, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In a report commissioned by Congress and released this week, experts said that a number of the agency’s technological resources are suffering, including …

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Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL’s Mars Sample Return mission
8 months, 1 week ago

Too expensive, too slow: NASA asks for help with JPL’s Mars Sample Return mission

LA Times  

These tubes hold samples of Martian rocks and dust collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover for the Mars Sample Return mission. In the most recent planetary science decadal survey — a report prepared for NASA every 10 years by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — planetary scientists named the Mars Sample Return mission as the “highest scientific priority …

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NASA’s attempt to bring home part of Mars is unprecedented. The mission’s problems are not
8 months, 4 weeks ago

NASA’s attempt to bring home part of Mars is unprecedented. The mission’s problems are not

LA Times  

This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to bring samples of rocks and soil — being collected from the Martian surface by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover — back to Earth. “A lot of great science will come out of” Mars Sample Return, said Garth Illingworth, an astronomer emeritus at UC Santa Cruz and former deputy …

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All you need to know about NISAR, the awe-inducing joint mission between NASA and ISRO
1 year, 1 month ago

All you need to know about NISAR, the awe-inducing joint mission between NASA and ISRO

Firstpost  

NASA and ISRO will come together for a joint mission called NISAR or NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar. The mission’s objective is to launch an Earth observation satellite, which offer insights into forests and wetlands, ecosystems which have massive impact on the global carbon cycle A collaborative effort between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation has given rise to the …

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Future Tense Fiction: “No Regrets,” by Carter Scholz.
1 year, 4 months ago

Future Tense Fiction: “No Regrets,” by Carter Scholz.

Slate  

This story is part of Future Tense Fiction, a monthly series of short stories from Future Tense and Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives. We’ve recently moved to a zero-carbon method called “proof of faith.” —What’s that? Brandon Gates, No.Org’s spokesperson, said, “Having Outis in orbit around Earth …

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How to build a robot arm that can flex in the moon’s frigid south pole
1 year, 8 months ago

How to build a robot arm that can flex in the moon’s frigid south pole

LA Times  

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,” …

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NASA hands over payload of NISAR satellite to Isro
1 year, 10 months ago

NASA hands over payload of NISAR satellite to Isro

Hindustan Times  

The National Aeronautics Space Administration on Saturday handed over the payload for the NISAR satellite to Indian Space Research Organisation, people aware of the matter said on Saturday. Clean room engineers and technicians prepare the scientific core of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite inside a Spacecraft Assembly Facility clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. NASA’s …

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Dust-covered solar panels mean NASA Mars lander’s mission is coming to an end
2 years, 7 months ago

Dust-covered solar panels mean NASA Mars lander’s mission is coming to an end

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. InSight’s solar panels have been increasingly covered in red Martian dust, despite creative efforts by the mission’s team on Earth. “We’ve been hoping for a dust cleaning like we saw happen several times to the Spirit and Opportunity rovers,” said Bruce Banerdt, InSight’s principal investigator at JPL. NASA/JPL-Caltech “The InSight mission has …

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NASA's perseverance rover collects first Mars rock samples
3 years, 3 months ago

NASA's perseverance rover collects first Mars rock samples

India TV News  

National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Perseverance rover on Monday completed the collection of the first sample of Martian rock, a core from Jezero Crater slightly thicker than a pencil. The sample-taking process began on September 1, when the rotary percussive drill at the end of Perseverance's robotic arm cored into a flat, briefcase-size Mars rock nicknamed "Rochette." Today, at 12:34 …

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Perseverance hits the road: Rover begins search for ancient microbial life on Mars
3 years, 6 months ago

Perseverance hits the road: Rover begins search for ancient microbial life on Mars

India Today  

The Perseverance rover trundling the surface of Mars began its most critical mission phase — looking for ancient microbial life. “We are putting the rover’s commissioning phase as well as the landing site in our rearview mirror and hitting the road,” said Jennifer Trosper, Perseverance project manager. In a bid to collect unique samples, the rover will explore two geologic …

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Could humans have contaminated Mars with life?
3 years, 7 months ago

Could humans have contaminated Mars with life?

BBC  

Could humans have contaminated Mars with life? NASA/JPL-Caltech Nasa's most recent rover to Mars, Perseverance – along with its pint-sized helicopter – could have carried some microbial hitchhikers along for the ride Humanity has sent around 30 spacecraft and landers to the Red Planet since the space age began. Clean rooms might serve as an evolutionary selection process for the …

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After flight on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter to begin new demo phase
3 years, 7 months ago

After flight on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter to begin new demo phase

India TV News  

Having proven that powered, controlled flight is possible on the Red Planet, the Ingenuity experiment will soon embark on a new operations demonstration phase, exploring how aerial scouting and other functions could benefit future exploration of Mars and other worlds. “Since Ingenuity remains in excellent health, we plan to use it to benefit future aerial platforms while prioritizing and moving …

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NASA's Mars helicopter mission next month may pave the way for interplanetary flight
3 years, 8 months ago

NASA's Mars helicopter mission next month may pave the way for interplanetary flight

Hindustan Times  

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 U.S. space agency is comparing the Martian debut of its 4-lb solar-powered whirlybird, dubbed Ingenuity, with the Wright Brothers' first …

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Historic Mars helicopter test flight set for early April
3 years, 8 months ago

Historic Mars helicopter test flight set for early April

Live Mint  

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 …

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NASA’s Perseverance rover makes safe landing on Mars
3 years, 10 months ago

NASA’s Perseverance rover makes safe landing on Mars

LA Times  

NASA’s newest rover touched down safely on the surface of Mars on Thursday, completing a 293-million-mile journey through space and setting the stage for a mission that seeks to find evidence of ancient extraterrestrial life. Members of NASA’s Mars 2020 team at JPL react after receiving confirmation that the Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars. Some bumped fists with …

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Mars launch: NASA sends Perseverance rover to space
4 years, 4 months ago

Mars launch: NASA sends Perseverance rover to space

CNN  

CNN — The Perseverance rover and its Ingenuity helicopter are finally on the journey to Mars. The team in the control center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmedthey received the spacecraft’s signal shortly after 9 a.m. “This signifies that JPL’s deep space network has locked on to the spacecraft, which is on its journey to Mars,” said Omar Baez, launch …

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The art of a rover: Imagining Perseverance before it existed
4 years, 4 months ago

The art of a rover: Imagining Perseverance before it existed

CNN  

CNN — The car-size Perseverance rover launching to Mars on July 30 is the heaviest and largest rover NASA has ever sent to the red planet. Scott Hulme, one of the leads for NASA’s Mars Public Engagement team, created the first sketch of the Mars 2020 rover, the original name before it became Perseverance. NASA/JPL-Caltech The kid-friendly design for the …

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