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Marc Rayman • September 04, 2018 • 7
A fantastic story of adventure, exploration and discovery is reaching its denouement. In the final phase of its long and productive deep-space mission, Dawn is operating flawlessly in orbit around dwarf planet Ceres.
Emily Lakdawalla • August 29, 2018 • 3
Both OSIRIS-REx and New Horizons achieved first light on their still-distant targets this week. Between now and the end of 2018, Bennu and 2014 MU69 will turn from points of light into places.
Jason Davis • August 28, 2018
The names were collected by the Society in 2013, and are stored on target markers that will be dropped on the asteroid.
Emily Lakdawalla • August 24, 2018 • 3
Two months after arrival, the team has reported some preliminary facts about Ryugu. They also announced the selection of candidate landing sites for the spacecraft sample collection, for the German-built MASCOT hopper, and for the MINERVA-II microrovers
Sandhya Ramesh • August 24, 2018 • 3
The announcement came as a surprise to many people within ISRO, the country's space agency.
Casey Dreier • August 23, 2018 • 5
Have questions about Space Force? We have answers.
Jason Davis • August 21, 2018 • 4
It was a signal from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, not Opportunity, that showed up on a Deep Space Network dashboard last week.
Andrew Jones • August 16, 2018
The Chang'e-4 spacecraft will launch on December 7 toward a farside landing, making use of a relay satellite to stay in touch with Earth.
Casey Dreier • August 16, 2018 • 5
Though progress is being made on Mars Sample Return, a new report from the National Academies recommends NASA have a long-term plan for robotic Mars exploration, and work to ensure communications infrastructure is maintained at the Red Planet. These recommendations largely align with those made by The Planetary Society in a report released in 2017.
Jason Davis • August 15, 2018 • 4
Let's check in on NASA's Juno spacecraft, which completed its 14th close flyby of Jupiter last month.
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