Homer Newell and the Origins of Planetary Science in the United States -- The Survival Crisis of the US Solar System Exploration Program in the 1980s -- Faster, Better, Cheaper: A Sociotechnical ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Quantum Space plans to launch Scout-1, the space infrastructure and services company’s first satellite, no earlier than March 2024 on a SpaceX Transporter rideshare flight. NASA has announced an ...

Introduction: NASA's solar system exploration paradigm : the first fifty years and a look at the next fifty / James L. Green and Kristen J. Erickson -- Part I. Overview. Exploring the Solar System : ...

Most robotic missions get a burst of attention at launch, a second burst at arrival, and then vanish from the news. Much of that hardware kept working anyway, logging measurements long after the press ...

Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth’s climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe. This year’s budget expires at the end of ...

Planetary science has been shaped by a remarkable legacy of exploration, from the Apollo program to pioneering missions such as Voyager, Cassini-Huygens, Hayabusa, or New Horizons. Today, a new wave ...

[NASA]. Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN)-5 solicits multi-institutional team-based proposals for research as participating members of the ...

The Sun is the source of energy for life on Earth and is the strongest modulator of the human physical environment. In fact, the Sun’s influence extends throughout the solar system, both through ...

Discover the dramatic forces creating spectacular weather on neighboring planets and moons. Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with globe-spanning dust storms, monsoons of liquid ...