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NASA’s Artemis Moon Lander Will Be Built At Marshall Space Flight Center

A few days ago, Jim Bridenstine announced that the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will be the site the Artemis Moon Lander will be developed. The Artemis program is supposed to launch the first woman and the next…

August 18, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Interplanetary Shockwaves From The Sun Identified By NASA

NASA succeeded once again with the help of their satellites to capture for the first time one of the most significant phenomena from outer space. This fact offers them now a better understanding of the solar system. NASA’s latest mission…

August 14, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Mars 2020 Rover Works Awesome, As It Passed Another Test

The Mars 2020 rover from NASA needs to pass all tests to begin its mission. As engineers are working on the array of cameras of the rover, the unmanned explorer passed its first series of eye exams. The front of…

August 9, 2019 ·by Asheley Rice· 0

NASA Extends the TESS Mission – What’s Going On?

NASA has extended the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission by two years, to keep it operational until at least 2022. The spacecraft was repositioned recently as researchers plan to explore the northern sky. More than 1,000 exoplanets were observed…

August 6, 2019 ·by Asheley Rice· 0

NASA Endless Mission of Discovering New Planets Succeeded

A TESS mission discovered an incredible number of three new worlds which put us in total awe. NASA once again did the impossible with the help of its top satellite. TESS, or its formerly known as the Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

July 30, 2019 ·by Anna Daniels· 0

NASA’s New Moon Mission To Pave The Way To Human-Crewed Mars Missions

On July 22nd, NASA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first landing on the Moon, stating that the U.S Space Agency is ready for their next giant leap with the new Artemis program that aims to take the first woman…

July 24, 2019 ·by Asheley Rice· 0

NASA Plans to Send a Crewed Mission to Mars by 2030

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine stated during a recent interview that while NASA is currently focusing on returning to the moon in the next five years, a mission which aims to reach Mars may be initiated by 2033. During the press…

July 18, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

NASA’s LISA Can Pinpoint Some Exciting Exoplanets

A large number of exoplanets were found with the help of LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory). LIGO is quite good, but a significant issue stemmed from the fact that the instrument has to focus on ignoring a large amount…

July 11, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

SuperCam Became Part of the Mars 2020 Rover

NASA is one year away from launching its rover on a trip to Mars. Its launch is programmed to be on July 17th, 2020, and it is presumed to land on the Red Planet on February 18th, 2021, in Jezero…

July 6, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

NASA’s TESS Discovers The Smallest Exoplanet Ever

A team of researchers harnessed the power of a sophisticated spacecraft in an attempt to find more extrasolar planets. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is an advanced spacecraft explicitly built for the search of exoplanets, and a new milestone has…

July 5, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0