Missions
It Looks Like it’s Working! NASA InSight’s Mole is Making Progress Again Thanks to the Arm Scoop Hack
NASA and the DLR are making some progress with the Mole. The Mole has been stuck for months now, and…
Hayabusa 2 Has Sent its Last Rover to Ryugu
Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission to asteroid Ryugu has reached one of its final milestones, if not its climax. The sample-return…
Here’s NASA’s New Plan to Get InSight’s Temperature Probe Into Mars
The mole is still stuck. The mole is the name given to the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3)…
Juno is Afraid to Death of Jupiter’s Shadow. So it Fired its Thruster for Over 10 Hours to Avoid It.
In a death-defying maneuver for the spacecraft, NASA's Juno has completed an unprecedented and unplanned engine burn. The purpose? To…
India’s Crashed Lander is In This Picture, Somewhere
This image of the lunar highlands is from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. You'd need superhuman eyesight to spot it, but…
Mars 2020 Rover Gets its Helicopter Sidekick
Work on the Mars 2020 Rover is heating up as the July/August 2020 launch date approaches. Mission engineers just attached…
Even Though it Hasn’t Launched Yet, JUICE Took its First Images of Jupiter and its Moons
Is there a more complicated and sophisticated technological engineering project than a spacecraft? Maybe a particle accelerator or a fusion…
Hardy Tardigrades on Board Israel’s Beresheet Lander Probably Survived the Crash
When SpaceIL's Beresheet lander crashed into the Moon, it was a bitter-sweet moment for Israel's space exploration aspirations. The privately-built…
Watch this Amazing Video of Hayabusa 2 Picking Up a Sample from the Surface of Ryugu
A new video shows Japan's Hayabusa 2 sample return spacecraft collecting samples from asteroid Ryugu. The spacecraft has been at…
India’s Chandrayaan-2 is Heading to the Moon
ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) has successfully launched their Chandrayaan-2 mission to the Moon. The mission, which includes an orbiter,…