2007 contained several significant events in spaceflight, including a Chinese ASAT test, the launches of the US Phoenix and Dawn missions to study Mars and Asteroid belt respectively, Japan’s Kaguya Lunar orbiter, and the first Chinese Lunar probe, Chang’e 1. The internationally accepted definition of a spaceflight is any flight which crosses the Kármán line, [...]
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Present and future Modern boosters developed at MSFC included the Space Shuttle liquid and solid propellant engines and the Delta series, used in satellite and Mars mission launches. Starting in 2006, MSFC’s Exploration Launch Projects Office began work on the new Project Constellation mission vehicles (Ares I, Ares V and Orion) which will replace the [...]
The observatory was originally named ”Deep Space Station 51” and was built in 1961 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In this role the station assisted in tracking many unmanned United States space missions, including the Ranger, Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter spacecraft (which landed on the Moon or mapped it from orbit), the [...]
Solar astronomy The solar system is subdivided into the inner planets, the asteroid belt, and the outer planets. The inner terrestrial planets consist of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. The outer gas giant planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, and finally the Oort Cloud, which may extend as [...]
* February 19 – NASA’s Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system. * May 26 – The Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars. * June 4 – Quaoar is discovered * June 10 – Annular solar eclipse * [...]
The first goal of the SEA was to work toward receiving broad Congressional support for the new national Vision for Space Exploration outside of low-earth orbit, which the SEA refers to as “Moon, Mars and Beyond”. The SEA began their effort by working together on a “Moon-Mars Blitz” campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. [...]
The Vision for Space Exploration seeks to implement a sustained and affordable human and robotic program to explore the solar system and beyond; extend human presence across the solar system, starting with a human return to the Moon by the year 2020, in preparation for human exploration of Mars and other destinations; develop the innovative [...]
Father Secchi made contributions to many areas of astronomy. * He revised Struve’s catalog of double stars, compiling data for over 10,000 binaries. * He discovered three comets, including Comet Secchi. * He produced an exact map of the lunar crater Copernicus. * He drew some of the first color illustrations of Mars and was [...]
ASTEP funded projects typically perform research by searching for and studying extremophile biology in Earth’s harshest environments through the use of field research campaigns. The environments where this research is conducted is meant to simulate the expected conditions on extraterrestrial worlds in our solar system. Past field work has typically targeted two regions. Arctic and [...]
”Phoenix” is a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars under the Mars Scout Program. The ”Phoenix” lander descended on Mars on May 25, 2008. Mission scientists used instruments aboard the lander to search for environments suitable for microbial life on Mars, and to research the history of water there. The multi-agency program [...]
Mars Observer was an unmanned American spacecraft designed to study the geoscience and climate of Mars. The first of the proposed Observer series of planetary missions, it was launched by NASA on September 25, 1992. Three days before Mars Observer was scheduled to enter the orbit of Mars, contact with the spacecraft was lost. Attempts [...]
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