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

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

e-News® | The NEWS Company… : Boeing and SpaceX have received contracts to develop a new fleet of American spacecraft for NASA. The companies  will

– Ever have one of those days where you just wanna be alone, maybe have the planet to yourself? Well, based on sheer numbers, there

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

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

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

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

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

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