by David Todd | Mar 27, 2015 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The concept of NASA astronauts exploring and surveying a “proper” asteroid has become an even more distant prospect after NASA toned down its plan to capture small asteroid in a “bag” and try and grab an asteroid boulder instead. The original...
by David Todd | Mar 27, 2015 | NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The construction order for the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) spacecraft has been awarded by NASA to Orbital ATK with two more spacecraft in the series being held as options. While NASA handles its construction and launch contracts, the JPSS-2 advanced...
by David Todd | Mar 20, 2015 | On a Lighter Note, Science, Seradata News
An eclipse of the Sun occurred on the morning of 20 March 2015 which was visible as a 100% total eclipse for those eclipse changers who braved the cold and the polar bears in Svalbard, west of Norway. There was even an 84% partial eclipse visible in Southern England,...
by David Todd | Mar 13, 2015 | Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science
Mission and launch managers for NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) were not put off by the “unlucky” launch date as they watched an Atlas V 421 successfully launch the mission’s four MMS satellites at 0244 GMT on Friday 13 March...
by David Todd | Mar 12, 2015 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science
At 1239 GMT on 6 March 2015, the NASA spacecraft Dawn entered orbit around the asteroid/dwarf planet Ceres at 61,000 km altitude. Dawn was launched in 2007 and has used electric propulsion to visit the asteroid Vesta for an orbital stay of 14 months in...
by David Todd | Feb 12, 2015 | Launches, NASA, Satellites, Science, SpaceX
The recoverable first stage version of the Space X Falcon V1.1 series of launch vehicles successfully placed the NASA DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) on a trajectory towards the L1 position, the place on the Earth-Sun line line where the Sun and Earth...
