Blog Archive
JUICE: Europe's next mission to Jupiter?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/04/18 12:00 CDT
The Twitterverse is buzzing this morning with news that the Science Programme Committee of the European Space Agency has recommended that the next large European mission be JUICE, a mission to explore the three icy Galilean satellites and eventually to orbit Ganymede.
Cool stuff brewing at Honeybee Robotics
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/03/15 03:05 CDT
Yesterday I was treated to a little tour (little, because it's a little building) of Honeybee Robotics' office here in Pasadena. They were putting on a show for a state visit by the new NASA Chief Technology Officer Mason Peck, and had invited media. I was one of only two media who showed up, and I have to say that people who stayed away missed a cool show. Honeybee is developing some great technology for future space missions for Earth, Mars, and beyond.
SLS updates: tower crawl, engine burn and flight test
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/11/21 02:22 CST | 1 comments
A few updates on the Space Launch System, NASA's next-generation deep exploration vehicle.
Decoding SpaceX's re-usable spacecraft concept
Posted by Jason Davis on 2011/10/07 10:45 CDT
Breaking down the futuristic technologies for SpaceX's reusable Grasshopper spacecraft, as shown in a recent promotional video.
Russia's Venera-D mission (DPS-EPSC 2011)
Posted by Ted Stryk on 2011/10/05 10:29 CDT
During the afternoon poster session at the Division of Planetary Sciences / European Planetary Science Congress meeting, I had a long talk with Ludmila Zasova (IKI) about Russia's Venera-D mission to Venus.
Brief notes from Day 2 of the DPS-EPSC meeting
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2011/10/04 11:18 CDT
Brief notes from Day 2 of the DPS-EPSC meeting











