News Archive / Tagged: The Range
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Finding life on Europa requires drilling to its subsurface ocean
Laurel KornfeldJuly 24th, 2021A future mission seeking signs of life on Jupiter's moon Europa will likely require drilling into its global subsurface ocean, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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Isotope of carbon found in exoplanet’s atmosphere
Laurel KornfeldJuly 17th, 2021An international team of scientists has detected isotopes of carbon in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time ever, a discovery noted in the journal Nature.
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Wally Funk of the ‘Mercury 13’ to finally fly into space next week
Theresa CrossJuly 13th, 2021On July 1, 2021, Blue Origin announced that Wally Funk, a member of the “Mercury 13," would fly into space atop the company’s suborbital New Shepard rocket.
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Former Shuttle Landing Facility to get new ‘utility corridor’
Theresa CrossJuly 10th, 2021Construction on a new "utility corridor" has begun at the former Shuttle Landing Facility, now known as the Launch and Landing Facility, which is run by Space Florida.
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Surface, geology of Pluto studied via opposition observations
Laurel KornfeldJuly 4th, 2021Six years after the New Horizons spacecraft returned close-up images of Pluto, researchers are teasing out more information about its geology and surface.
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Scientists trace meteor showers back to long-period comets
Laurel KornfeldJune 19th, 2021Scientists traced up to 15 lesser-known meteor showers through which Earth travels annually to long-period comets with orbits that take up to 4,000 years.
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DOGE-1 CubeSat to fly to the Moon atop a Falcon 9 rocket
Theresa CrossJune 10th, 2021Last month, Geometric Energy Corporation announced the first mission to the Moon paid entirely with the Dogecoin cryptocurrency — DOGE-1.
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Atlas V STP-3 mission delayed
Theresa CrossJune 5th, 2021A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Space Force's STP-3 mission has been delayed, according to a release by the launch provider.
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NASA releases 3D video of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s 3rd flight
Michael McCabeMay 31st, 2021On April 25, 2021, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter performed its third test flight. Recently, NASA engineers converted a video of the flight into anaglyph 3D.
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Titan sample return mission being explored by NASA engineers
Laurel KornfeldMay 30th, 2021Funded by a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program grant, scientists are exploring a possible mission to return samples from Saturn's moon Titan.
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NASA’s CAPSTONE lunar mission to fly later this year
Theresa CrossMay 13th, 2021Later this year, NASA plans to launch a CubeSat to test a special orbit around the Moon to verify its characteristics in advance of sending the Lunar Gateway there as early as 2024.
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Exoplanets and their characterization the focus of STScl workshop
Laurel KornfeldMay 11th, 2021The various methods used over the last 25 years to discover exoplanets and the science of categorizing the many types of exoplanets that have been found was the focus of an April 19 workshop for science writers sponsored by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).
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Petition asks NASA to name Lunar Gateway after Michael Collins
Theresa CrossMay 6th, 2021There is a Change.org petition to rename NASA’s Lunar Gateway after former Apollo astronaut Michael Collins, who died April 28, 2021, at age 90.
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Light this candle! The 60th anniversary of the first American in space
Matt HaskellMay 5th, 2021Sixty years ago today, on May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard rocketed to space in his Mercury capsule to become the first American and the second human in space.
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New Horizons spacecraft is now 50 AU from the Sun
Laurel KornfeldApril 22nd, 2021NASA's New Horizons spacecraft achieved a major milestone on Saturday, April 17, when it reached a distance of 50 AU from the Sun.
