News Archive / Tagged: Phoenix

• How is NASA’s InSight Mars lander different from the Phoenix Mars lander?

  Jason RhianFebruary 26th, 2018

  In 2008, NASA's Phoenix Mars lander touched down in the Red Planet's polar region. Now InSight, which is based on the Phoenix lander, is being prepped for flight. The two probes are very similar in design, but what does InSight have that Phoenix didn't?

• MRO image shows dust covering Phoenix landing site

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 22nd, 2018

  An image of the 2008 Phoenix Mars landing site taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) nearly a decade after it touched down on the dusty plains of the Red Planet reveals dust has covered much of the site.

• ULA marks 25th anniversary of Delta II rocket

  Jim SharkeyFebruary 16th, 2014

  On Friday, Feb. 14, 2014 United Launch Alliance (ULA) commemorated the 25th  anniversary of the Delta II launch vehicle.  A quarter century earlier, on February 14, 1989, a Delta II lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, carrying the GPS BII-01 satellite to orbit. While it was designed specifically to accommodate the Block II series of GPS […]

• An open letter to Dennis Tito…

  SpaceFlight InsiderDecember 1st, 2013

  Dear Sir, After a delay, I finally watched your plea that you made to the US House of Representatives Sub Committee on Science, Space and Technology to fully fund your Inspiration Mars Foundation’s 501 day flight for two people, male and female,  to circumnavigate the planet Mars and return to Earth in the 2017-2018 time […]