Tag: Arizona State University
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Arab world’s first Mars mission packs a scientific punch
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated July 14 with launch delay. Engineers in Dubai work on UAE’s Hope Mars probe. Credit: MBRSC The UAE’s Hope mission is set for liftoff this week from Japan, taking aim on Mars with a package of scientific instruments designed to probe weather and climate change on the Red Planet. About the size of…
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UAE’s first Mars probe meets launcher in Japan
The Emirates Mars Mission spacecraft is prepared for encapsulation inside the payload fairing of its H-2A launcher. Credit: MHI A Mars orbiter developed by the United Arab Emirates in partnership with U.S. scientists has been mounted on top of a Japanese H-2A rocket and its battery charged for liftoff Tuesday from the Tanegashima Space Center.…
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Emirates Mars Mission arrives in Japan for launch preparations
The Emirati Mars Mission, or Hope spacecraft, is pictured inside a clean room during ground testing. Credit: MBRSC The Arab world’s first Mars probe has arrived at its launch site in Japan after officials navigated coronavirus-related quarantine protocols and travel restrictions to ensure the spacecraft can launch on time in July. The Mars orbiter arrived…
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NASA taps SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to launch mission to metal asteroid
File photo of a Falcon Heavy launch in April 2019. Credit: SpaceX NASA has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to launch a robotic mission in July 2022 to explore Psyche, a metal-rich asteroid located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The Psyche probe is NASA’s first mission assigned to fly on SpaceX’s heavy-lift launcher.…
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Scientists reconstruct what Neil Armstrong saw as he landed on the moon
Using 21st century images taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists have reconstructed the view Neil Armstrong had outside the window of the Apollo 11 lunar module as he guided the spacecraft to a safe landing site on the moon 50 years ago. In orbit around the moon since 2009, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter…
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Robotic telepresence could be the best way for humans to explore Mars, scientists say
A mosaic of images shows NASA’s Curiosity rover in its Martian surroundings. Researchers say future rovers may well be controlled from stations in Mars orbit. (NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS Photo) Robotic telepresence could save future Mars explorers from the perils that faced fictional astronaut Mark Watney in “The Martian” — and serve as the…
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U.S. instrument team to fly camera on South Korean moon mission
Artist’s concept of the ShadowCam instrument peering into Shackleton Crater. Credit: NASA A camera developed by scientists at Arizona State University will join four foreign-built instruments on South Korea’s first lunar orbiter set for launch at the end of 2018, NASA announced Friday. NASA selected the ShadowCam instrument from proposals submitted by U.S. science teams.…
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Two asteroid missions get nod from NASA
Artist’s concepts of the Lucy and Psyche missions. Credit: SWRI and SSL/Peter Rubin NASA has selected two robotic missions to visit asteroids in the early 2020s from a field of proposed interplanetary probes, approving projects to explore a metallic relic from the early solar system and a half-dozen so-called Trojan objects left over from the…