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…That's why SPLICE is designed to be fully autonomous with terrain relative navigation, Doppler lidar, hazard detection lidar, and a powerful landing computer. NASA often has to choose landing zones based…
…According to NASA, the years-long build process is due to the fact that almost every element of the spacecraft is custom and hand-crafted by talented teams all over the US…
We are in the waning days of NASA's InSight mission, but the spirited Mars lander isn't done with science just yet. The American Geophysical Union (AGU) reports that InSight has…
…Voyager 2 Probe Talks to Upgraded NASA Network After 8 Months of Silence NASA Just Fired Voyager 1’s Thrusters For the First Time in 37 Years Hubble telescope to scout the…
…The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program has developed a concept for a robotic submersible vehicle for planetary exploration, but it won't be deployed in water. The aptly (though unimaginatively) named Titan…
…It allows users to analyze images taken with small ground-based telescopes, to identify asteroids that could be of interest to NASA and partner Planetary Resources , though for very different reasons. The…
As it’s wont to do, NASA has taken the stuff of our sci-fi dreams and made it reality. The agency has revealed that it used ‘holoportation’ technology to cast a…
…Scientists from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), working in cooperation with NASA, aim to monitor the eclipse continuously for much longer (Opens in a new window) . How? They've rigged a pair…
…The data used to make this video is the same data NASA will rely upon as it plans future lunar surface exploration, possibly including manned missions. NASA has a Tumblr post (Opens…
…This skyscraper-sized asteroid might still hit Earth in 2068 (Opens in a new window) , according to a new analysis from the University of Hawaii and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Scientists…