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Emily Lakdawalla • May 16, 2019
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has successfully imaged the impact site of the Beresheet lander, which made a really good run at performing the first privately funded Moon landing on 11 April, but crashed after the failure of its main engine.
Andrew Jones • May 15, 2019 • 1
The first science results from the unprecedented Chang’e-4 lunar far side mission are in. The mission’s Yutu-2 rover, deployed from the lander shortly after the Chang’e-4 landing on 3 January, has, with the help of the Queqiao relay satellite, returned data which suggests it has discovered material derived from the Moon’s mantle.
Jason Davis • May 15, 2019 • 2
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is currently sweeping arcs between the asteroid's north and south poles.
Emily Lakdawalla • May 14, 2019
According to amateur spacecraft tracker Daniel Estévez, Longjiang-2 will crash into the Moon on 31 July after more than a year in lunar orbit.
Casey Dreier • May 13, 2019 • 5
The White House released a long-awaited supplemental budget request for NASA today. It proposes an additional $1.6 billion for an accelerated human spaceflight effort to land on the Moon in 2024. This boosts the President's budget request for NASA to $22.6 billion in fiscal year 2020, which is approximately $1.1 billion or 5% more than the amount provided by Congress last year.
Jason Davis • May 13, 2019 • 2
The Planetary Society's solar sail spacecraft will lift off 22 June 2019 on a mission to demonstrate the power of sunlight for propulsion.
Brendan Curry • May 09, 2019 • 1
Highlights from the hearing, 'Keeping our Sights on Mars: A Review of NASA's Deep Space Plans' held on May 8th in the House of Representatives.
Jason Davis • May 09, 2019 • 2
The Planetary Society's solar sailing CubeSat is officially on the road to launch.
Kaushik Mitra • May 07, 2019 • 7
Although we have acquired compelling evidence of flowing liquid water on early Mars, the fundamental question about how water could be stable under Martian atmospheric conditions remains unsolved.
Jason Davis • May 03, 2019 • 3
Hayabusa2's SCI experiment fell toward Ryugu for 40 minutes before detonating about 300 meters above the surface.
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