jet propulsion laboratory

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/09/nasas_asteroid_spotter_turned_off/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/neowise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-field_Infrared_Survey_Explorer Incidentally, there is a comet named in honor of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_NEOWISE

New Scott Manley video. Computers Were So Slow Scientists 'Painted' The First Close Up Image Of Mars View: https://youtu.be/nSQlM6yGh7k

https://www.space.com/ai-mars-robot-dogs-agu View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOlF9DXyJdw

As said in the title... all the robotic planetary missions launched in the 70's left a spare spacecraft on the ground (and later, at the NASM aerospace museum). There were good reasons for that - providing spares - ground testing - backup in case of failures (Mariner 8...) Soooo ...by 1978...

https://spacenews.com/nasa-planetary-defense-efforts-continue-during-pandemic/

Time this has its own thread. https://spacenews.com/europa-clipper-seeking-savings-as-cost-reserves-plummet/

With Mars Methane Mystery Unsolved, Curiosity Serves Scientists a New One: Oxygen For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above the surface of Gale Crater on Mars. As a result, they noticed...

Yep George Levin has stirred this up again with a new opinion piece in Scientific American. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/im-convinced-we-found-evidence-of-life-on-mars-in-the-1970s/ Here’s a support article...

The first of the "Thousand Astronomical Unit" space probes designed from the late 70's into the 80's. Nuclear electric propulsion would send the craft on a fifty-year mission into interplanetary space to test technologies for a future true interstellar mission, for deep-space science and to map...

In other words, steampunk in the space age. ;D ORIGINAL CAPTION: AREE is a clockwork rover inspired by mechanical computers. A JPL team is studying how this kind of rover could explore extreme environments, like the surface of Venus. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech...

The Leros engine has commonalities with other engines that have called issues including MUOS 5 I believe. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/due-to-concerns-about-engine-juno-to-remain-in-elongated-jupiter-orbit/

http://gizmodo.com/all-hail-juno-our-record-breaking-solar-powered-emmiss-1752844953

A design by North American/Rockwell for the same contract as the TRW 'Solar Electric Multi Mission Spacecraft'. Unlike that vehicle, which was intended for use for a variety of missions, this spacecraft was optimised for untargeted asteroid belt exploration, though with it's particle and fields...

Proposed design for a Multi-Mission bus using ion engines for propulsion. Suggested missions included an untargeted asteroid belt flyby, a targeted asteroid belt flyby, a Jupiter flyby (With or without use of gravity assist to reach an out-of-ecliptic orbit following the flyby.) and a...

http://www.space.com/20313-voyager-1-leaves-solar-system.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9944080/Voyager-1-becomes-first-man-made-object-to-leave-the-Solar-System.html Voyager I passing the rings of Saturn (Daily Telegraph)

Viking 3 lander with ELMS http://spacescience.spaceref.com/newhome/headlines/msad28apr98_1b.htm

After the cancellation of Voyager(Mars) in 1967 NASA started up a new series of studies to come up with a spacecraft for the 1973 launch opportunity. This Martin-Marietta designed soft-lander of 1969 was intended to put the maximum payload weight on the surface of Mars using a mission profile...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s&feature=plcp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzqdoXwLBT8&feature=plcp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syA7ml64zY4&feature=plcp Not bad for a PR piece.

1965 (Pre-Mariner 4 Atmosphere) design for a hard landing capsule designed to take 1 high resolution photograph of the surface of Mars and then transmit it back to Earth over a period of four days. The camera used would appear to be a distant ancestor of those eventually used on the Viking...

Concerned about the cost of Viking 1 & 2, NASA looked at lower cost alternatives for the 1977 & 1979 Mars launch opportunities . One of the proposed missions was to use a modified version of the Pioneer Venus Orbiter to carry six RTG powered penetrators to Mars. Once the spacecraft entered...