The Relentless Physics of Interplanetary Travel A $2 billion robotic mission, BepiColombo, has just completed another critical flyby, marking the penultimate step in its eight-year journey to Mercury. This isn’t a flashy announcement of a Read More
NASA’s Sudden Shift from Rovers to Rotorcraft For an agency whose planetary exploration strategy has long been defined by the methodical crawl of rovers and the stationary vigil of landers, NASA’s latest pivot Read More
NASA’s Deep Space Network: A Pyrrhic Victory on Artemis II? The Deep Space Network did not “work well” on Artemis II in the way many understand success. While NASA’s global array of communications Read More
An Unceremonious Exit from 200 Million Miles Away Two hundred million miles away, a workhorse went silent. On December 6, a NASA spacecraft named MAVEN, tasked with studying the Martian atmosphere, performed a routine orbital maneuver, an Read More
The Commercial Space Revolution NASA Is Overlooking “I’ll buy 10 of those,” a NASA science chief recently declared, expressing a wistful desire for readily available, mass-produced satellites. This isn’t a casual remark from a Read More