The lone remote sensing instrument for the Solar Probe+ is the Hemispheric Imager or “HI” for short. Consisting of a telescope that will make 3D images similar to medical CAT scans of the Sun’s corona, this new coronal tomography is one of the newest developments available for solar imaging, with photography performed from a moving [...]
“The scale of this site, the terrain of this site is something you just can’t find in most places in the world,” said Terry Phong with NASA. Phong works on the K-10 robot team. The black and red pair will scout out terrain, scan the ground and draw up maps. The robots are being controlled [...]
“I am excited about the new partnership between NASA and Oceaneering,” said Glenn Lutz, project manager for the spacesuit system at Johnson. “Now it is time for our spacesuit team to begin the journey together that ultimately will put new sets of boot prints on the moon.”
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With the new space developments by Oceaneering International Inc. [...]
“It’s a gorgeous day to launch,” NASA’s launch director, Mike Leinbach, told the astronauts just before liftoff, wishing them good luck and Godspeed. Commander Mark Kelly said Kibo is the “hope for the space station,” then radioed: “Now stand by for the greatest show on Earth!” Nearly 400 Japanese journalists, space program officials and other [...]
“We were expecting to find ice within two to six inches of the surface,” said Peter Smith of the University of Arizona, Tucson, principal investigator for Phoenix. “The thrusters have excavated two to six inches and, sure enough, we see something that looks like ice. It’s not impossible that it’s something else, but our leading [...]
The Phoenix’s Robotic Arm (RA), built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is highly critical to the Mars operation that is now fully in operation, intended to dig trenches, scoop samples of soil and water ice. Once this is accomplished, data of samples will be sent to the two instruments- the TEGA and MECA—for more detailed [...]
“These images are very exciting to the science team,” said the Surface Stereo Imager co-investigator Mark Lemmon of Texas A&M University. “We see the polygons we’re looking for, and we’re very excited to fill in the context with more site pan images that go beyond the workspace.” Images to complete the panorama are planned today [...]
“We rehearsed all of the problems, and none of them occurred,” Phoenix project manager Barry Goldstein told reporters, clearly relieved at what appears to have been a nearly textbook landing. “One divergence from this was the opening of the lander’s parachute 7 seconds later than anticipated, a minor issue that simply prevented the probe from [...]
At a recent U.S. Senate hearing on space and aeronautics, many representatives demonstrated concern over what Russia may charge the United States for transportation of astronauts to the International Space Station, once the shuttle fleet is retired in 2010. Additionally, they are concerned about the difficult relationship that is already present between the two [...]
“The Ku Band system on GLAST enables the transmittal of recorded science and engineering data at a high rate to the ground through the Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS),” said Al Vernacchio, GLAST Deputy Project Manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. “It provides the link that enables the transmission of the [...]
