NASA InSight Team On Course For Mars Touchdown
An artist’s impression of NASA InSight’s entry, descent and landing at Mars, scheduled for Nov. 26, 2018. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
November 21, 2018 – NASA’s Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft is on track for a soft touchdown on the surface of the Red Planet on November 26, the Monday after Thanksgiving. But it’s not going to be a relaxing weekend of turkey leftovers, football and shopping for the InSight mission team. Engineers will be keeping a close eye on the stream of data indicating InSight’s health and trajectory, and monitoring Martian weather reports to figure out if the team needs to make any final adjustments in preparation for landing, only five days away. Read More
NASA OSIRIS-REx Flexes Its “Arm” Before Arriving At Asteroid Bennu
This image of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism arm and sampling head in space was taken on November 14, 2018, by the spacecrafts SamCam imager as part of a visual checkout of the sample return system. Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona
November 19, 2018 – TAGSAM, or Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, completed a successful practice deployment in space on Nov. 14—an important milestone in the OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu. TAGSAM is the first-of-its-kind robotic arm and sampling head invented by Lockheed Martin. Read More
Lockheed Martin’s Quiet Supersonic Technology Project Passes Major Milestone
Illustration of the X-59 QueSST as it flies above NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California. Image Credit: Lockheed Martin
November 19, 2018 – NASA has officially committed to a development timeline that will lead to the first flight of its X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft in just three years. Read More
Maxar Technologies Shareholders Approve U.S. Domestication
November 19, 2018 – Maxar Technologies, a global technology innovator powering the new space economy, today announced that shareholders approved the Company’s U.S. domestication at a special meeting held earlier today in Westminster, Colorado. Read More
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