Missions
Where to Next? Decadal Survey Prioritizes Future Planetary Missions
[/caption] The planetary science community has released their “Decadal Survey” a set of recommendations and a wish list of future…
NASA Mission to Europa May Fall to Budget Cuts
[/caption] Next week, the US National Academy of Sciences will release their decadal review of priorities for planetary science in…
What’s Up for March?
Jane Houston Jones from JPL provides a video report on the happenings in space this month, and what you can…
Gallery: WISE’s Greatest Hits
[/caption] The WISE mission is now over, with the spacecraft taking its final image on Feb. 1, 2011. WISE was…
Swift Survey Finds ‘Missing’ Active Galaxies
From a NASA press release: Seen in X-rays, the entire sky is aglow. Even far away from bright sources, X-rays…
The Longest Martian Odyssey Ever
[/caption] At 3,340 days and counting, NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter established a new record for longevity as of Dec. 15…
Voyager 1 Has Outdistanced the Solar Wind
[/caption] The venerable Voyager spacecraft are truly going where no one has gone before. Voyager 1 has now reached a…
Akatsuki Update: Fuel Pressure Drop Likely Caused Insertion Failure
[/caption] While JAXA is still trying to get an exact handle on the problems that the Akatsuki probe sent to…
Nanosail-D Update: Things Look Grim
[/caption] We reported the successful ejection of the Nanosail-D nanosatellite from the satellite that it was launched with earlier this…
Two New Kinds of Moon Rocks Found
[/caption] Scientists analyzing data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument or M Cubed, on the Chandrayann-1 spacecraft found two different…