by David Todd | Feb 7, 2019 | commercial launch services, exploration, Launches, NASA
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) has won a NASA contract to launch the LUCY mission – a “Discovery-class” mission to the Trojan asteroids. Using an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle, the mission will launch in October 2021. Launch-related costs are set to total US$148.3...
by David Todd | Jan 6, 2017 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science
The Lucy mission, to be launched in 2021, was one of two missions to be selected for Discovery mission funding out of five contenders. The other winning contender was the Psyche mission which will be launched in 2023. Both missions are asteroid related. Lucy is...
by Rob Coppinger | Nov 30, 2009 | Seradata News
Congrats to CNET for getting to fly the Altair lunar lander simulator at NASA Ames Research Center (and thanks to Clark Lindsey for the link). Go here and here and here for more Altair related video from previous Hyperbola reports. And find here all of the Hyperbola...
by Rob Coppinger | Sep 25, 2009 | Seradata News
While NASA’s Altair lunar lander design studies hang around in US Review of Human Space Flight Plans committee report limbo, the space agency appears to be doing some work still and this Langley Research Center procurement synopsis is asking for ideas about...
by David Todd | Apr 20, 2009 | Seradata News
credit NASA/Flight / caption: NASAWatch’s reusable lander presentation looks nothing like Altair Back in February NASA’s head of its Altair lunar lander project office Kathy Laurini spoke to Flight about the agency’s ideas for a reusable or...