Topic: nasa mission
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NASA Science Mission Spared in Budget Cuts, Others Remain at Risk
NASA's OSIRIS-APEX asteroid mission has been reinstated after facing budget cuts, securing its future to study asteroid Apophis during its close Earth flyby in 2029. The mission repurposes the healthy OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to observe Apophis, a sizable near-Earth object that poses no immediate th...
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Scientists Make Case for Sending Astronauts to Mars
The primary scientific goal for human Mars missions is to definitively answer whether life has ever existed there, as only astronauts can perform the sophisticated, adaptive fieldwork needed for a conclusive search. A new National Academies strategy report prioritizes this search for life and out...
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Solar Flare Delays Jeff Bezos' New Glenn Rocket Launch
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket launch was postponed due to a powerful solar storm, which could interfere with satellite functions and prompted NASA to delay sending its ESCAPADE probes to Mars. NASA, as the mission customer, decided to wait for improved space weather to protect the spacecraft's s...
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NASA's Test Flight Paves Way for Supersonic Travel's Return
NASA's X-59 Quesst jet completed its first flight, aiming to reduce sonic boom noise and potentially enable future supersonic travel over populated areas. The aircraft's innovative design, including a long nose and top-mounted engine, minimizes shockwaves to produce a quieter "sonic thump" instea...
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Voyager 1 to Make Historic First in 2026
Voyager 1 will become the first human-made object to reach one light-day from Earth in 2026, highlighting its long-lasting mission that began in 1977. Originally launched to study Jupiter and Saturn, it has exceeded its goals by entering interstellar space in 2012 and continues to send data using...
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NASA's Silent Supersonic Jet Makes Historic First Flight
NASA's X-59 aircraft completed its first flight, advancing efforts to enable commercial supersonic travel over land by reducing disruptive sonic booms. The X-59 is designed to transform shockwaves into a soft thump instead of a loud boom, aiming to influence regulatory changes that currently ban ...
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