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NASA mission to explore metal asteroid 'Psyche' worth thousands of quadrillions to launch in August 2022
Trendingdesk • 5 years agoThe Psyche mission will be the first to investigate a world of metal rather than the usual combination of rock and ice.
NASA plans to send telescope into the stratosphere on a stadium-sized balloon to study the cosmos
Trendingdesk • 5 years agoThe balloon stationed at a 40-km altitude will study far-infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye.
NASA announced new SunRISE mission to study giant solar particle storms
Trendingdesk • 5 years agoSunRISE contains six CubeSats which will work together as a large radio telescope.
Mars 2020 rover will head to the Red Planet next year, announces NASA
• 5 years agoMars 2020 will explore a landscape shaped by water which is the 'Jezero Crater', the site of an ancient delta
NASA scraps all-women spacewalk because of a lack of well-fitted spacesuits at ISS
Tech2 News Staff • 6 years agoAll 215 spacewalks by the space station crew till date have been male-only or mixed male-female teams.
US-German 15 year old GRACE mission comes to an end owing to a battery issue,
Ians • 7 years agoFollowing an age-related battery issue on GRACE-2 in September, it became apparent by mid-October that GRACE-2's remaining battery capacity would not be sufficient to operate its science instruments and telemetry transmitter.
NASA's Dawn mission gets second extension, spacecraft to remain in orbit around Ceres indefinitely
Ians • 8 years agoDuring this extension, the spacecraft will descend to lower altitudes than ever before at the dwarf planet, which it has been orbiting since March 2015
Nasa launches first mission to collect 'asteroid dust', may hold possible clues to life
• 9 years agoNasa hopes the solar-powered OSIRIS-REx will bring back the largest payload of space samples since the Apollo era of the 1960s and 1970s,
NASA spots mysterious bright lights on dwarf planet Ceres as explorer probe nears orbit
Fp Archives • 10 years agoThe discovery of another bright light on the dwarf planet Ceres has NASA scientists perplexed as the US Dawn probe prepares to enter the orbit of the largest object in the asteroid belt and possibly resolve the mystery.
NASA plans solar-powered airships, floating city for manned Venus mission
Fp Archives • 10 years agoNASA plans to send solar-powered airships to explore Venus' atmosphere and to eventually establish a permanent human colony in a floating cloud city above the planet.