April 29th, 2020
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a new report: NASA: Assessments of Major Projects. This is the GAO’s 12th annual look at the status of NASA’s major projects, finding that costs grew for the third year in a row. “NASA’s acquisition management is on our High Risk List,” the GAO observes. According to […]
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now carrying out Sol 2747 duties. Next stop for the rover is a new drill site dubbed “Glasgow”, reports Roger Wiens, a geochemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The Curiosity rover is about 66 feet (20 meters) lower in elevation than its highest point near the […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now carrying out Sol 2746 tasks. New imagery shows the rover’s current whereabouts and its surrounding landscape:
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2744 tasks. A just issued Curiosity traverse map shows the route driven by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity through the 2742 Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission on Mars (April 24, 2020). Numbering of the dots along the line indicate the sol number of each drive. […]
The Center for Space Policy and Strategy has issued Slash the Trash – Incentivizing Deorbit, a report that offers five distinct concepts to incentivize compliance with the guideline to deorbit satellites. According to the report’s authors, “there is likely to be a surge of satellites launched into space over the next decade, which […]
Pandemics and NEO Strikes – Instructive Parallels By Clark R. Chapman, planetary scientist, Southwest Research Institute (retired), Boulder, Colorado We are currently in the early-to-mid stages of what promises to be an exceptionally catastrophic worldwide pandemic. It isn’t early for China and a few other countries that practiced strict early social distancing, where the coronavirus […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now carrying out Sol 2742 tasks. Curiosity is ready to drive again, reports Abigail Fraeman, a planetary geologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The main activity in a two sol plan – Sols 2742-2743 — will be a drive of roughly 213 feet (65-meters) to the north/north east that skirts […]
If you are going stir-crazy in these times of confinement, think of it as potential training for a Mars trek. European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut support engineer Romain Charles has a set of nine tips on how to live in isolation (video link below). Charles spent 520 days locked in a mockup spacecraft. High-fidelity […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2740 tasks. Reports Ryan Anderson, a planetary geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona, the plan for Sol 2740 and 2741 is focused on diagnosing the issue with the robot’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI). There was an issue with MAHLI on sol 2735 […]
