Tag: Lockheed-Martin
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ULA wins contract to launch NASA’s Lucy mission to visit unexplored asteroids
File photo of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5-401 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral. Credit: United Launch Alliance NASA has selected United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket to dispatch the Lucy spacecraft on a mission from Cape Canaveral in October 2021 to fly by seven unexplored asteroids, including six objects locked in orbits leading…
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ULA wins contract to launch NASA’s Lucy mission to visit unexplored asteroids
File photo of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5-401 rocket lifting off from Cape Canaveral. Credit: United Launch Alliance NASA has selected United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket to dispatch the Lucy spacecraft on a mission from Cape Canaveral in October 2021 to fly by seven unexplored asteroids, including six objects locked in orbits leading…
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OSIRIS-REx finds rugged terrain on asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s navigation camera captured this image of asteroid Bennu on Jan. 17 from a distance of approximately 1 mile (1.6 kilometers). The large boulder in partial shadow at the lower right of the frame is about 165 feet (50 meters) across. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Some time next year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft…
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OSIRIS-REx finds rugged terrain on asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s navigation camera captured this image of asteroid Bennu on Jan. 17 from a distance of approximately 1 mile (1.6 kilometers). The large boulder in partial shadow at the lower right of the frame is about 165 feet (50 meters) across. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Some time next year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft…
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First of up to seven ULA launches this year set for Saturday
File photo of the Delta 4-Heavy on Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Credit: United Launch Alliance The first of up to seven missions planned on United Launch Alliance’s Atlas and Delta rocket fleets this year is scheduled for Saturday from California’s Central Coast, when a Delta 4-Heavy is set for blastoff…
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DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite fails
The WorldView 4 satellite in Lockheed Martin’s factory in Sunnyvale, California. Credit: Lockheed Martin DigitalGlobe’s WorldView 4 commercial Earth observation satellite, which launched in 2016 for a planned 10-to-12-year mission, has suffered a failure in its control moment gyros and is no longer able to acquire high-resolution imagery, officials announced Monday. Maxar Technologies, DigitalGlobe’s parent…
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OSIRIS-REx completes New Year’s Eve orbit insertion burn at asteroid
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 kilometers). Credits: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona After four weeks of navigating in the vicinity of asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft fired its thrusters for eight seconds Monday to slip into…
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NASA picks nine commercial teams for moon deliveries – including dark horses
Lockheed Martin is offering its McCandless lunar lander, shown here with an onboard rover in an artist’s conception, for future NASA missions to the moon. (Lockheed Martin Illustration) NASA says it’s partnering on lunar delivery services with nine commercial teams, headed by companies that run the gamut from the space industry’s heavyweights to startups. The…
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Live coverage: InSight probe lands on Mars
Live coverage of the InSight spacecraft’s landing on Mars after a journey from Earth lasting more than six months, kicking off a science mission to probe the red planet’s hidden interior. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”Mission Commentary on NASA TV”] [tabby title=”Live Mission Audio Only”] [tabbyending]
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NASA’s InSight mission lands on Mars to study planet’s hidden interior
InSight project manager Tom Hoffman motions to an image captured by the spacecraft minutes after landing on Mars. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA’s InSight spacecraft plunged into the rarefied atmosphere of Mars at a speed of more than 12,000 mph Monday and braked to a gentle touchdown, setting the stage for a two-year surface mission to…