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Bringing Mars home: Leonardo signs contract with the European Space Agency to produce the robotic arm that will help retrieve samples of the red planet
Leonardo, leading a European industrial consortium, will design, manufacture, integrate and test the Sample Transfer Arm for NASA and ESA’s Mars Sample Return mission Sophisticated robotics and mechatronics algorithms will
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Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions Actuators and Radiation Hardened Technology Head Back to Mars on NASA’s Perseverance Rover
aerobd.news : Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES) announced today that its actuators and radiation hardened (RadHard) microelectronics are heading back to the planet of Mars as part of today’s NASA
Boeing and SpaceX get NASA contracts to take astronauts to the ISS
e-News® | The NEWS Company… : Boeing and SpaceX have received contracts to develop a new fleet of American spacecraft for NASA. The companies will spend the coming three years
Tens of billions of planets out there are like Earth
– Ever have one of those days where you just wanna be alone, maybe have the planet to yourself? Well, based on sheer numbers, there may be a planet just
This Is NASA’s New Solar-Electric Propulsion Engine
NASA has posted an image of its new solar-electric propulsion thruster, which uses xenon ions for propulsion. The engine in the photo, blue with the glow of xenon gas, is
5 Ways to Watch Historic Asteroid Flyby
The 150-foot-wide asteroid 2012 DA14 will give Earth a close shave today, coming within 17,200 miles of our planet, and you can watch it live online. The space rock will
Astronaut Captures Dramatic Pics of Australian Brushfires From Space
The string of brushfires currently raging throughout five of Australia’s six states are so massive that they can be seen from space. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield captured these detailed images
Volga-Dnepr delivers supplies for Mars mission
Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Airlines hauled key parts of the launch vehicle utilized for NASA’s historic, multibillion-dollar mission to Mars. The carrier, which has worked with NASA in the past, employed an
NASA launches Earth-observing satellite
NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite soared into space, aboard a Delta II rocket, after lift-off from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. NASA’s National Polar-orbiting Operational
Endeavour space shuttle makes last touch-down
Endeavour landed at the Kennedy Space Center for the final time Space shuttle Endeavour has brought its 19-year operational career to a close with a textbook landing in Florida.