The ISS was assembled by launching individual modules and connecting them together in orbit. The first component, dubbed Zarya (which means "sunrise" in Russian), was launched on a Russian rocket on Nov. 20, 1998, so nearly all satellite apps refer to the ISS as Zarya. The station's sol...
The mission's challenges actually began years ago — in 2019, when NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Southern California (JPL), where the spacecraft was assembled, was short-staffed. Clipper was in danger of running over budget, especially because the rocket it was originally going to launch on,...
Rising from the ashes of the U.S.space shuttleprogram, which flew its final mission in July 2011, and its stillborn successor, the Constellation program, which was cancelled in February 2010, theSpace Launch System(SLS) will inherit characteristics of both of its predecessors. Its technological ...
When the Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off on April 12, 1981, from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., to begin the first space shuttle mission, the dream of a reusable spacecraft was realized. Since then, NASA has launched more than 100 missions, but the price tag of space missions has changed...
Spaceships are made germ-free through several methods: heat, chemicals, radiation and plasma, the last of which is the most preferred. The equipment is assembled in a clean room. All of this is done for planetary protection. Whether it is to send people to the moon or restock a space sta...
I don’t much care for lifting my eyepiece up that high. It seems that these were more intended as a part of an imaging train that would be assembled without a diagonal. OOPS. I forgot to answer the 240x question. Once in abluecrescent Moon or Mars opposition. ...
Houda Harb, senior product manager at ASX, the Australian Securities Exchange, shared on LinkedIn the sad news that Maurice Farhart has passed away. Maurice was head of international sales at ASX and had been with the exchange since 2012. He...
SV40 belongs to the family of Polyomaviridae and was first discovered as a contaminant of the polio vaccine, generated with the use of the rhesus monkey kidney cell line. It consists of a small non-enveloped dsDNA genome of approximately 5.2 kb. SV40 infection in animals is primarily categoriz...
To test the Mars Sample Return EES, engineers have carried out a series of drop tests at the Utah Test and Training Range, the lakebed site where the samples will touch down. During recent tests, a manufacturing demonstration unit (MDU) of one potential design for the EES aeroshell was dro...
“Things are getting real now, GOES-T is fully assembled and ready for launch,” GOES-T mission manager Rex Engelhardtsaidin a post on NASA’s website. “Next week, we will be holding the final launch reviews and exercising the teams on their launch consoles in preparation for launch day...