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

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

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

– 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

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

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

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

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’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 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.