• This mission will continue to revolutionize our understanding of Mercury during the coming year," said Charles Bolden from NASA, who was at MESSENGER mission control at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, as engineers received telemetry data confirming orbit insertion. (astronomy.com)
  • NASA engineers directing Cassini from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said they have programmed the spacecraft to carry on through any glitches or emergencies as it attempts the SOI, which NASA has said is the next most critical part of the mission, aside from its initial launch. (technewsworld.com)
  • NASA says contact has been lost with a spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit. (katc.com)
  • NASA 's CAPSTONE spacecraft arrived at its orbit at the Moon Sunday evening, as confirmed by the CAPSTONE mission operations team. (scitechdaily.com)
  • These high accuracy ranging measurements are carried out with the Venus Express spacecraft on a regular basis to support the accurate determination of the ephemeris for the planet Venus that is maintained by NASA's Solar System Dynamics Group. (esa.int)
  • NASA recently published the first images captured by the Juno spacecraft. (pacificspacecenter.com)
  • The first NASA spacecraft to enter orbit was Galileo, which spent eight years in orbit observing the planet and also its many moons. (ninjajournalist.com)
  • We are currently in elliptic orbits around Earth, calling phasing loops," NASA explained at the time, "and will continue with two more of these elliptical orbits until LADEE is captured around the Moon. (americaspace.com)
  • NASA scientists and engineers were able to confirm the health of all separated spacecraft at 12:40 a.m. (geologyin.com)
  • Over the next several weeks, NASA scientists and engineers will deploy booms and antennas on the spacecraft, and test all instruments. (geologyin.com)
  • NASA announced it will contract Colorado company Maxar Technologies to develop a system for robotically assembling spacecraft parts in low-Earth orbit. (pioneeringminds.com)
  • Gaining a comprehensive understanding of the potential threat posed by moon dust to future spacecraft and lunar missions is crucial, particularly as NASA and space agencies worldwide prepare to launch more missions to the Moon. (theupspot.com)
  • NASA researchers used precision-tracking data from the agency's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to better understand movements of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu, significantly reducing uncertainties related to its future orbit, and improving scientists' ability to determine the total impact probability and predict orbits of other asteroids. (madeinspace.com)
  • Early this morning, a small NASA spacecraft about the size of a microwave embarked on the beginning of a four-month-long journey to the Moon, where it will eventually insert itself into a unique, elongated lunar orbit that no NASA mission has visited before. (newsysage.com)
  • NASA is considering leveraging this orbit for its Artemis program - the agency's effort to send the first woman and the first person of color to the surface of the Moon. (newsysage.com)
  • Since NASA hasn't sent any spacecraft into this orbit before, the agency doesn't have any experience with what it's like to operate a vehicle there. (newsysage.com)
  • Called a near rectilinear halo orbit, this curved orbit brings the satellite close to the moon at some times while being further away than others. (digitaltrends.com)
  • CAPSTONE is scheduled to arrive at its near rectilinear halo orbit around the moon on 13 November this year. (digitaltrends.com)
  • CAPSTONE, short for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, is now in a near-rectilinear halo orbit, or NRHO. (scitechdaily.com)
  • In this animation, the planned trajectory for CAPSTONE's near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) is shown in red. (scitechdaily.com)
  • This distinctive orbit is called "near rectilinear halo orbit," or NRHO for short. (newsysage.com)
  • Corrections to the space station's orbit are conducted periodically to compensate for the Earth's gravity and to safeguard successful docking and undocking of spacecraft. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Bigelow's plan would challenge teams to build spacecraft capable of more than just suborbital hops, such as maneuvering and docking abilities with Bigelow habitats more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) above Earth and reentering the Earth's atmosphere at 17,500 miles (28,163 kilometers) an hour, Aviation Week stated. (space.com)
  • The satellite was launched last week from New Zealand and on Monday left Earth's orbit, on its way to the moon. (katc.com)
  • There have been several technical challenges over the years but every Cargo Dragon that reached orbit successfully completed its space station resupply mission and was recovered intact from the ocean surface after reentering Earth's atmosphere. (teslarati.com)
  • EDT Thursday, NASA's four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft are positioned in Earth's orbit to begin the first space mission dedicated to the study of a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection. (geologyin.com)
  • The ESA is developing its own spacecraft capable of re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. (universetoday.com)
  • NASA's CAPSTONE satellite is on its way to orbit around the moon, following a software issue that caused it to lose contact with Earth this week. (digitaltrends.com)
  • The satellite is testing out an unusual orbit around the moon which could be used for the planned Gateway space station. (digitaltrends.com)
  • This is the first in a series of thruster burns over the next few months to more accurately target CAPSTONE's transfer orbit to the Moon. (digitaltrends.com)
  • The transfer the satellite is following is different from the usual Hohmann transfer, in which an object spirals out in its orbit around the Earth until it ends up in orbit around the moon. (digitaltrends.com)
  • The spacecraft called Capstone aims to test a highly oval orbit around the moon. (katc.com)
  • Rocket Lab company founder Peter Beck told The Associated Press the experience of seeing the project come together and send the spacecraft on the way to the moon was "just absolutely epic. (katc.com)
  • The plan was for the satellite to orbit the moon in a stretched-out egg shape to save fuel and stay in contact with Earth. (katc.com)
  • CAPSTONE in orbit near the Moon: Once released from Rocket Lab's Photon satellite bus, CAPSTONE will use its propulsion system to travel for approximately three months before entering into orbit around the Moon. (scitechdaily.com)
  • This particular NRHO is the same orbit that will be used by Gateway , the Moon-orbiting space station that will support NASA's Artemis missions . (scitechdaily.com)
  • CAPSTONE is the first spacecraft to fly an NRHO, and the first CubeSat to operate at the Moon. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Without a properly executed insertion maneuver, CAPSTONE will fly by the Moon without making it into orbit, as shown in blue. (scitechdaily.com)
  • This makes it a pathfinder for Gateway, a Moon-orbiting outpost that is part of NASA's Artemis program. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Understanding how the impact of the DART spacecraft changed the orbit of the moon sheds light on how this approach might be able to provide a defence system against potential collisions of asteroids with the Earth. (helsinki.fi)
  • The DART mission ran a spacecraft into Dimorphos, the moon of near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos, on 26 September 2022. (helsinki.fi)
  • Detailed physical characterization of the target asteroids, documentation of the DART impact consequences including large-scale cloud of ejected debris, measurement of Dimorphos 33-minute orbital period change, and a description of how momentum was transferred from the spacecraft to the moon are revealed in five papers published in Nature . (helsinki.fi)
  • They also describe the location and nature of the impact site, noting that it was between two boulders, one of which was grazed by the spacecraft as it made contact with the moon. (helsinki.fi)
  • They propose that the momentum transfer from the spacecraft to the moon was enhanced by recoil from ejecta streams produced by the impact. (helsinki.fi)
  • Not to mention the Lunar Gateway - a station set to be constructed in orbit around the Moon, which currently exists only on paper. (newatlas.com)
  • Today's Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI)-1 burn is the first step to achieving a stable orbit around the Moon. (americaspace.com)
  • One month since its launch atop the first Minotaur V rocket from Wallops Island, Va., NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) has completed the first of its critical Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) maneuvers to inject itself into orbit around the Moon. (americaspace.com)
  • These loops served to gradually expand the apogee of its Earth orbit to gradually reach the Moon and be successfully captured by lunar gravity. (americaspace.com)
  • EDT on 13 September, the first Perigee Maneuver (PM-1) was completed, increasing the altitude of LADEE's elliptical orbit and establishing the spacecraft onto the "cruise" phase on its journey to the Moon. (americaspace.com)
  • Similar in shape to the Apollo spacecraft, Orion is designed to carry up to six astronauts to destinations such as the moon or Mars. (incognito.space)
  • Orion is a significant upgrade from Apollo - the spacecraft is newer and much larger than Apollo, and sports electronics decades more advanced than what Apollo's astronauts used to fly to the moon. (incognito.space)
  • Private spaceflight company Blue Origin joins reusable rocket pioneer SpaceX on NASA's Artemis programme to return humans to the lunar surface, with both companies under contract to develop spacecraft capable of landing astronauts on the moon. (flightglobal.com)
  • However, as more spacecraft land on the lunar surface, an emerging concern arises regarding the escalating threat posed by moon dust to space exploration. (theupspot.com)
  • Although these moon dust particles are minuscule, the overall threat they pose to spacecraft cannot be underestimated or disregarded. (theupspot.com)
  • In addition to its impact on spacecraft in lunar orbit, the aforementioned study highlights that moon dust could also pose a threat to lunar habitats, particularly during spacecraft landings and takeoffs. (theupspot.com)
  • New scenes from a frigid alien landscape are coming to light in recent radar images of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. (acm.org)
  • NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found deep, steep-sided canyons on Saturn's moon Titan that are flooded with liquid hydrocarbons. (acm.org)
  • The spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the lunar circle on August 3 and will endeavor a soft landing on the Moon on August 23. (infusenews.com)
  • NASA's Explorer 35 studied the Moon from orbit for six years and discovered that the Moon has no magnetosphere, that solar wind particles impact directly onto the surface, and that the Moon creates a "cavity" in the solar wind stream. (nasa.gov)
  • The spacecraft, similar to Explorer 33, which had failed to achieve lunar orbit, found that the Moon has no magnetosphere, that solar wind particles impact directly onto the surface, and that the Moon creates a "cavity" in the solar wind stream. (nasa.gov)
  • It's a special seven-day path that spacecraft can take around the Moon, bringing vehicles relatively close to the lunar surface for one day before they swing out far from the Moon for the other six. (newsysage.com)
  • When astronauts went to the Moon during Apollo, their path to the Moon was a more or less a straight shot on a massive rocket called the Saturn V. Once they arrived, they eventually put themselves into a relatively circular orbit around the Moon, one that brought them within 62 miles of the surface. (newsysage.com)
  • One of the things that unfortunately you have to look at with respect to bringing spacecraft and equipment to the Moon using that typical approach is the significant amount of fuel that's required," Elwood Agasid, deputy program manager of the small spacecraft technology program at NASA's Ames Research Center, tells The Verge . (newsysage.com)
  • when they were in lunar orbit, they passed on the far side of the Moon, blocking their signals with Earth for nearly an hour during each lap. (newsysage.com)
  • Perhaps the biggest advantage is that staying in NRHO doesn't require as much fuel as it does to stay in a circular orbit around the Moon. (newsysage.com)
  • spacecraft on this route are affected by the gravitational pull of the Earth, the Sun, and the Moon. (newsysage.com)
  • Weighing just 55 pounds, CAPSTONE serves as the first spacecraft to test a unique, elliptical lunar orbit. (scitechdaily.com)
  • By this stage, the spacecraft was in a highly elliptical Earth orbit, with an apogee of about 50 Earth-radii, and late on 11 September the first Apogee Maneuver (AM-1) was performed, serving as "an engineering test of the main Orbital Control System (OCS) thruster," which would be critical for the LOI-1 burn. (americaspace.com)
  • The main engine separated 2 hours later, the spacecraft having entered an initial elliptical orbit of 497 × 4,780 miles (800 × 7,692 kilometers) at 147 degree inclination. (nasa.gov)
  • This maneuver was carried out to ensure the best conditions for the landing of Russia's Soyuz TMA-04M manned spacecraft in Kazakhstan on September 17 and the docking of the Soyuz TMA-06M manned spacecraft with the ISS, scheduled for October 15. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The mission was launched on Saturday, and a day later, the first orbit-raising maneuver was carried out. (infusenews.com)
  • NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft successfully achieved orbit around Mercury at approximately 9:00 p.m. (astronomy.com)
  • If Cassini-Huygens can successfully shoot itself into Saturn's orbit as planned, the craft will sail approximately 12,427 miles above the clouds of Saturn, 10 times closer than previous flybys and closer than any craft ever. (technewsworld.com)
  • After a quick three-day journey from its parking orbit to the International Space Station (ISS), Dragon was successfully captured by the station's astronauts with a robotic arm and berthed to the orbital outpost, where the crew quickly unloaded its cargo of food, consumables, science, and equipment. (teslarati.com)
  • Notably, CRS-19 is the second to last orbital mission scheduled for SpaceX's original Dragon spacecraft, which debuted in orbit in December 2010, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to successfully reenter and be recovered intact. (teslarati.com)
  • Aside from a June 2015 launch vehicle failure that prevented Cargo Dragon from reaching orbit on its CRS-7 mission, SpaceX has successfully completed every resupply mission that managed to reach orbit, delivering more than 43 metric tons (95,000 lb) of supplies to the space station and the astronauts aboard it. (teslarati.com)
  • The $280 million spacecraft successfully began its four-minute-long LOI-1 burn at 6:57 a.m. (americaspace.com)
  • If all goes according to plan and the spacecraft has successfully come out on , it will build a three-meter antenna of seven segments. (weaponews.com)
  • Ceres is seen from NASA's Dawn spacecraft March 1, just a few days before the mission achieved orbit around the previously unexplored dwarf planet. (astronomy.com)
  • NASA's Dawn spacecraft has become the first to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet. (astronomy.com)
  • In the tens of thousands of photos returned by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the interior of Ceres isn't visible. (acm.org)
  • The Ansari X Prize challenges participants to develop a reusable three-person spacecraft capable of reach an altitude of at least 62 miles (100 kilometers) twice in two weeks. (space.com)
  • It orbits Saturn within one of the planet's rings at an altitude of 83,000 miles above the surface. (boingboing.net)
  • The requirements and constraints are used to make a critical assessment of the four technologies as functions of spacecraft mass and initial orbit (altitude and inclination). (uc3m.es)
  • Over the next few days, LADEE will execute two additional LOI burns to fine-tune this orbit into a circular path at an altitude of about 250 km, after which it will begin a 40-day "Commissioning Phase," ahead of several months of full scientific operations. (americaspace.com)
  • After three revolutions in this orbit," noted the society's Emily Lakdawalla, "third-body Earth gravitational perturbations will have lowered periselene to an altitude of 250 km (by design). (americaspace.com)
  • At this point, LOI-2 will be performed on 9 October 2013 … to place LADEE into a four-hour orbit, also with a 250 km periselene altitude. (americaspace.com)
  • The collection of articles provides more than 550 dose measurements for spacecraft and extra-vehicular activity in 42 combinations of inclination and altitude in low Earth orbit. (cdc.gov)
  • Cassini-Huygens is set to slip between two of Saturn's rings and then thrust into the planet's field of gravity in a maneuver called the Saturn Orbit Insertion (SOI). (technewsworld.com)
  • The burn refers to an hour and a half of engine power Cassini will use to position itself properly into Saturn's orbit. (technewsworld.com)
  • In 2019, India's previous attempt to land a robotic spacecraft close to the moon's unexplored south pole was unsuccessful. (infusenews.com)
  • Space Micro has won a contract from the U.S. Space Force for a robotic spacecraft that would help with servicing, assembly, and manufacturing of spacecraft currently in orbit, the company announced in a statement. (militaryembedded.com)
  • Still from a China state TV news broadcast about a reusable spacecraft, September 6, 2020. (boingboing.net)
  • China did not release images of the reusable spacecraft it says completed a two day space flight. (boingboing.net)
  • China's government announced Sunday that its first reusable spacecraft landed after two days in orbit. (boingboing.net)
  • The flight "marks an important breakthrough in our country's research on reusable spacecraft" that promise a "more convenient and inexpensive way" to reach space, Xinhua said. (boingboing.net)
  • Foust said the next mission that will approach the size and expense of Cassini will likely be the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO), a large, nuclear-powered spacecraft that will study three of Jupiter's largest moons: Callisto, Europa and Ganymede. (technewsworld.com)
  • From 2011 to 2012, the spacecraft explored the giant asteroid Vesta, delivering new insights and thousands of images from that distant world. (astronomy.com)
  • Observations of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impact on the 150-m sized asteroid moonlet called Dimorphos orbiting around a bigger 800-m sized near-Earth asteroid Didymos are reported in five papers published in Nature this week with contribution of University of Helsinki scientists. (helsinki.fi)
  • The aim of the collision was to change the mutual orbit of the binary asteroid system, testing a potential method of asteroid deflection. (helsinki.fi)
  • NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has finally entered asteroid Bennu's orbit, after more than two years of hurtling through space toward the rock. (m-rated.com)
  • MOSCOW, September 14 (RIA Novosti) - Europe's ATV-3 unmanned resupply spacecraft raised the International Space Station (ISS) orbit to over 424 kilometers, a mission control spokesman said on Friday. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Moscow time [03:15 GMT] and remained switched on for 536 seconds (almost nine minutes), raising the ISS orbit by two kilometers to 414.8 km, the spokesman said. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The spacecraft was approximately 38,000 miles (61,000) kilometers from Ceres when it was captured by the dwarf planet's gravity at about 4:39 a.m. (astronomy.com)
  • The spacecraft is now flying at a perigee of just over 200 kilometers thanks to the Orbit-Raising Maneuver. (infusenews.com)
  • Foust, who said the engine burn is critical for Cassini to enter orbit and avoid flying right past Saturn, reported that indications suggest the engine is working fine. (technewsworld.com)
  • The microwave oven-sized CubeSat completed an initial orbit insertion maneuver, firing its thrusters to put the spacecraft into orbit, at 7:39 p.m. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The superiority of tape tethers as compared to round and multi-line tethers in terms of deorbit mission performance is highlighted, as well as the importance of an optimal geometry selection, i.e. tape length, width, and thickness, as function of spacecraft mass and initial orbit. (uc3m.es)
  • Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab built and operated the DART spacecraft and manages the DART mission for NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office as a project of the agency's Planetary Missions Program Office. (helsinki.fi)
  • The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a breathtaking mosaic of the Red Planet, stitched together from images taken by the agency's Mars Express spacecraft. (newatlas.com)
  • To be inserted into this orbit, the satellite has to make a series of maneuvers in which it fires thrusters to adjust its trajectory. (digitaltrends.com)
  • The NRHO insertion maneuver and two subsequent correction maneuvers ensure that the spacecraft accurately inserts into the NRHO. (scitechdaily.com)
  • In the next five days, CAPSTONE will perform two additional clean-up maneuvers to refine its orbit. (scitechdaily.com)
  • In this role, CAPSTONE will help reduce risk for future spacecraft by validating innovative navigation technologies and verifying the dynamics of this halo-shaped orbit. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Less than a year and a half later, Cargo Dragon became the world's first commercial spacecraft to successful rendezvous and berth with the International Space Station (ISS). (teslarati.com)
  • Pictured here, Cargo Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous and berth with the ISS in May 2012. (teslarati.com)
  • Plan is to evolve testing and hardware to establish the Nautilus outpost in Earth orbit. (space.com)
  • On December 26th, SpaceX's second-to-last Cargo Dragon spacecraft was photobombed in orbit by the shadow cast on Earth by a solar eclipse, likely a little over a week before the vehicle is set to reenter the atmosphere and splash down in the Pacific Ocean. (teslarati.com)
  • Cargo Dragon lifted off atop a rare new Falcon 9 booster - B1059 - on December 5th, carrying around 2600 kg (5800 lb) of cargo inside on the flight-proven capsules third launch into Earth orbit. (teslarati.com)
  • The Sun-Earth-Spacecraft geometry approached solar conjunction with an angle of 3.2 degrees on 16 March, bringing the Sun almost directly between Earth and the spacecraft. (esa.int)
  • From 25 March through 13 April, there were no communications or telemetry checks with the spacecraft as per plan, because the Sun was directly in the line-of-sight from Earth. (esa.int)
  • During routine operations, the spacecraft is typically left in an Earth-pointing orientation when not actively pointing to obtain science data. (esa.int)
  • During this superior conjunction period however, Earth pointing also meant pointing directly at the Sun. Thus, to minimise unnecessary heating of the main antenna and the feed horns electronics, the spacecraft was pointed 10 degrees away from Earth during this period. (esa.int)
  • By 13 April, the Sun-Earth-spacecraft geometry allowed the spacecraft to end the communications shutdown forced by the conjunction. (esa.int)
  • NASA's Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) heat shield inflates in orbit before its re-entry and splashdown on Thursday, Nov. 10. (nasa.gov)
  • The Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID), dedicated to the memory of Bernard Kutter, program manager, is a partnership between NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate and United Launch Alliance (ULA) to demonstrate an inflatable aerodynamic decelerator, or aeroshell, technology that could one day help land humans on Mars. (nasa.gov)
  • Animation of mission highlights for the upcoming launch of NASA's cutting-edge entry, descent and landing technology: Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID). (nasa.gov)
  • NASA's rideshare technology demonstration, NASA's Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID), will descend back to Earth and land in the Pacific Ocean. (nasa.gov)
  • A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-2 civilian polar-orbiting weather satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA's Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) tech demo lifts off from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 1:49 a.m. (nasa.gov)
  • The Starliner is a next-generation space capsule that will take people to and from low-Earth orbit. (boeing.com)
  • The Starliner was designed to accommodate seven passengers, or a mix of crew and cargo, for missions to low-Earth orbit. (boeing.com)
  • The Starliner is setting the foundation for commercial passenger spaceflight services to and from low-Earth orbit. (boeing.com)
  • The developer of space technology received from the Agency, 142 million U.S. dollars, and thereby took responsibility for the creation of technology for the Assembly of satellites and other equipment directly into Earth orbit. (weaponews.com)
  • At that time, the speech of the spacecraft in Earth orbit does not go. (weaponews.com)
  • The Russian Yamal 402 communications satellite has recovered itself to its planned operational position in geostationary Earth orbit, after using its own fuel and propulsion system in a series of burns following its Proton M launch undershoot on 8 December. (flightglobal.com)
  • This is part of NASA's project to commercialize low-Earth orbit and to build partnerships with private companies to make space exploration more affordable. (pioneeringminds.com)
  • Eventually, the spacecraft will return to Earth, completing a 1.3 million-mile journey that will last 42 days. (toddkendall.net)
  • A significant milestone was reached when the rocket placed the mission in a precise orbit around the Earth with all three stages functioning normally. (infusenews.com)
  • The spacecraft left Earth on a direct ascent trajectory and entered lunar orbit on July 21, 1967, after a 23-second burn. (nasa.gov)
  • Spacecraft in NRHO have a constant line of sight with Earth, allowing for continuous communication. (newsysage.com)
  • 8220;The mission was to carry cargo to the International Space Station, located between 350 and 450 km above the Earth, doing one orbit every 90 minutes. (lu.se)
  • With an increasing demand for satellite servicing and manufacture, doing these things in orbit would save money and time that currently goes toward launching payloads aboard rockets. (pioneeringminds.com)
  • A view of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard, from the launch control center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (toddkendall.net)
  • This paper presents methods for the precise orbit determination (POD) of a satellite in the CYGNSS constellation based on available single-frequency GPS code and carrier measurements. (ion.org)
  • After more than 12 years studying Saturn, its rings and moons, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has entered the final year of its epic voyage. (acm.org)
  • Ronald Terik Daly and colleagues including UH's Docent (Adjunct Professor) Tomas Kohout reconstruct the impact of the DART spacecraft on Dimorphos, which may help with the planning of future missions and could help to predict outcomes with more certainty. (helsinki.fi)
  • Nearly a year-and-a-half after arriving at the red planet, Europe's ExoMars orbiter is finally approaching a planned perch around 250 miles over the rust-colored world after repeatedly dipping into the Martian atmosphere to lower its orbit. (spaceflightnow.com)
  • When Dawn emerges from Ceres' dark side, it will deliver ever-sharper images as it spirals to lower orbits around the planet. (astronomy.com)
  • A probe carrying another robot rover is en route to Mars. (boingboing.net)
  • The shots used to create the new mosaic were snapped using the High Resolution Stereo Camera mounted on ESA's long-serving Mars Express spacecraft. (newatlas.com)
  • The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, a Russian-launched, European-built spacecraft that arrived at Mars in October, is starting to dip into the upper reaches of the red planet's atmosphere in a year-long "aerobraking" campaign place the observatory in the right position to hunt for methane, an indicator of potential biological activity. (spaceflightnow.com)
  • One second of faulty data led to the destruction of a European spacecraft on final descent to Mars last month, officials said Wednesday. (spaceflightnow.com)
  • Observations from orbital spacecraft have shown that Jezero crater on Mars contains a prominent fan-shaped body of sedimentary rock deposited at its western margin. (lu.se)
  • Known to some in the space community as "the last battlestar," the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft this week is on the verge of finishing its 2.2-billion-mile trip to Saturn as it prepares to get closer to the ringed planet than any other craft in history. (technewsworld.com)
  • For the first time in history, an observatory is in orbit around our solar system's innermost planet. (astronomy.com)
  • This marks the first time a spacecraft has accomplished this engineering and scientific milestone at our solar system's innermost planet. (astronomy.com)
  • Historically, resonant orbits have been extensively studied to understand the long-term stability and formation of the solar system. (purdue.edu)
  • This accomplishment is the fruit of a tremendous amount of labor on the part of the navigation, guidance-and-control, and mission operations teams, who shepherded the spacecraft through its 4.9-billion-mile (7.9 billion km) journey. (astronomy.com)
  • In addition to being the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet, Dawn also has the distinction of being the first mission to orbit two extraterrestrial targets. (astronomy.com)
  • Processing more than 170 days of data from each mission, a 1s CYGNSS orbit accuracy of 2.8 cm radial, 2.4 cm cross-track, and 6 cm in-track is demonstrated. (ion.org)
  • Besides collision risk with other spacecraft and system mass considerations, such as main driving factors for deorbit space technologies, the analysis addresses other important constraints, like deorbit time, system scalability, manoeuver capability, reliability, simplicity, attitude control requirement, and re-entry and multi-mission capability (deorbit and re-boost) issues. (uc3m.es)
  • It includes end of planned superior conjunction shutdown, resumption of science operations, automation of spacecraft passes at the Mission Operations Centre and thermal fuel gauging tests. (esa.int)
  • The mission went according to plan, and status messages for each movement of the spacecraft all came in as they were expected to. (ninjajournalist.com)
  • Goddard built, integrated and tested the four MMS spacecraft and is responsible for overall mission management and operations. (geologyin.com)
  • The manufacturing and assembly will take place on NASA's Restore-L spacecraft, an upcoming mission that aims to extend the lifespan of satellites even if they weren't originally designed to be serviceable. (pioneeringminds.com)
  • The impact ejecta also significantly enhanced the spacecraft momentum transfer and amplified the resulting orbital period change. (helsinki.fi)
  • The US space agency is asking aerospace suppliers to design a new orbital craft that could be used to perform a controlled de-orbit of the multinational space station, which is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2030. (flightglobal.com)
  • While NASA's Lunar Orbital Gateway appears to be capable of withstanding this phenomenon, according to the study, other spacecraft may not be as fortunate. (theupspot.com)
  • The company won an Orbital Prime contract from USSF for the development of Control Moment Gryo Barnacle, which would replace or restore Attitude Determination and Control Systems (ADCS) capabilities and expand on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing, the statement reads. (militaryembedded.com)
  • The most recent images received from the spacecraft, taken on March 1, show Ceres as a crescent, mostly in shadow because the spacecraft's trajectory put it on a side of Ceres that faces away from the Sun until mid-April. (astronomy.com)
  • The spacecraft's goal is simple: test out this particular orbit and see what it's like. (newsysage.com)
  • One month after its launch, a series of "phasing loops" has gradually increased LADEE's orbit until it was captured by lunar gravity. (americaspace.com)
  • We are Talking about the spacecraft Restore-L, the launch of which is scheduled for mid 2020. (weaponews.com)
  • After what appeared to be a successful Proton M launch from the Baikonur launch site, near Tyuratam in Kazakhstan, the Proton M's Breeze M (Briz M) upper stage had a malfunction during its planned fourth and final burn which caused it to end approximately four minutes early, stranding Yamal 402 in an incorrect transfer orbit. (flightglobal.com)
  • The spacecraft, positioned one on top of the other on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 421 rocket, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. (geologyin.com)
  • CAPSTONE's task is to test whether this orbit is a good potential orbit for the future station. (digitaltrends.com)
  • The Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) was able to raise the Chandrayaan-3 mission's orbit with success for the second time. (infusenews.com)
  • However, resonance phenomena have not been fully explored as a tool for designing spacecraft trajectories in multi-body dynamical systems which include 1) constructing baseline ephemeris solutions with desired properties and 2) as transfer mechanisms connecting stable periodic orbits. (purdue.edu)
  • The second goal of this investigation is to explore the possibility of incorporating resonant arcs and their manifolds in the transfer design process to aid the transfer guess generation between stable periodic orbits with no natural dynamical structures. (purdue.edu)
  • The applicability of this idea is demonstrated between two stable cislunar periodic orbits by constructing various transfer scenarios incorporating resonant arcs and manifolds. (purdue.edu)
  • As a result of this balancing act, this path is relatively stable for spacecraft to maintain, and they don't need to expend much fuel to stay on track or to travel down to the surface. (newsysage.com)
  • The image of the crater was captured using NASA's ShadowCam instrument on the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter spacecraft, with additional images of the surrounding area coming from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. (digitaltrends.com)
  • Some groups of scientists have figured out how , but in addition to this, it would be nice to learn how to build new space vehicles directly into orbit of planets. (weaponews.com)
  • The following are a list of spacecraft with a mass greater than 8,000 kg (17,637 lb), or the top three to any other orbit including a planetary orbit, or the top three of a specific category of vehicle, or the heaviest vehicle from a specific nation. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to The Planetary Society , the spacecraft will remain in this initial lunar orbit for three revolutions. (americaspace.com)
  • EDT, engineers from Operations Center received the anticipated radiometric signals confirming nominal burn shutdown and successful insertion of the MESSENGER probe into orbit around the planet Mercury. (astronomy.com)
  • In Addition, the spacecraft Restore-L with robotic limbs will try to assemble on-orbit beam with a length of about ten meters. (weaponews.com)
  • The aim is to use new technology to both manufacture parts such as a spacecraft beam and to assemble parts such as a communications antenna, all while floating in orbit a thousand miles above the planet. (pioneeringminds.com)
  • On 9 April, regular full contact with the Cebreros ground station was resumed, and the spacecraft was reconfigured for nominal operations as the Sun moved far enough out of the line-of-sight of the spacecraft. (esa.int)
  • Technology is allowing increased efficiency in many areas, and one of those areas is spacecraft operations at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. (esa.int)
  • Its advantage is that it requires very little energy to keep an object in the orbit, making it ideal for a space station. (digitaltrends.com)
  • China fired its first astronaut into orbit in 2003 and has launched a space station. (boingboing.net)
  • Currently the heaviest spacecraft is the International Space Station, nearly double Shuttle-Mir's mass in orbit. (wikipedia.org)
  • In general, a quasi-periodic ephemeris trajectory is constructed by employing a stacking process in which multiple revolutions of an identical periodic orbit in CR3BP are placed one behind another before transitioning them into the higher fidelity model. (purdue.edu)
  • A basic figure of merit is the deorbit device-to-spacecraft mass ratio, which is, in general, a function of environmental variables, technology development parameters and deorbit time. (uc3m.es)
  • Spacecraft may change mass over time such as by use of propellant. (wikipedia.org)
  • The MCA is a mass spectrometer instrument in the US Destiny Laboratory Module, which provides critical monitoring of six major atmospheric constituents (nitrogen (N 2 ), oxygen (O 2 ), hydrogen (H 2 ), carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ), and water vapor (H 2 O)). These gases are sampled continuously and automatically in all United States On Orbit Segment (USOS) modules via the ISS Sample Delivery System (SDS). (sae.org)
  • This paper predicts the population of planets that Gaia will detect around white dwarfs, evolved from known planets orbiting main-sequence stars. (lu.se)