Category: NASA

I woke up this morning and as I tend to do and opened up the NASA missions page and selected the Perseverance link. I was immediately greeted with the helicopter […]

Not going to go into the fiasco that is becoming the first controlled flight of a vehicle on another planet. The demonstration test has had a few setbacks and pushbacks […]

The biggest piece of news this update is the continual long-running update from the previous two articles, namely, Ingenuity has once again blown through a test date due to technical […]

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter team has targeted Sunday, April 11, 2021 for Ingenuity’s’ expositional and maiden test flight. Then during a LIVEstream on Monday, April 12 at 0330hrs EDT they will […]

Rover Perseverance has jettisoned Ingenuity’s lower cover in preparation for the first ever test flight on another planet. Ingenuity is of course the helicopter the NASA engineers came up with […]

I wrote an introductory article a month or so back on the Artemis missions which NASA currently has in full swing with the Mars 2020 Mission and the landing of […]

The above picture represents a close up combining two images from Perseverance’s SuperCam science instrument of a rock named ‘Yeehgo”, which is the Navajo word for diligent. The SuperCam instrument […]

As we follow the Mars 2020 Perseverance mission I’ll provide weekly updates on what’s been going with the mission. This update covers science and updates and what Perseverance is performing […]

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a NASA mission I have been waiting for some time to launch. Originally set to be launched in 2018, we are now 3 […]

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is an ongoing mission which launched August 12, 2005. After a 7 month journey to Mars it has been on a continuing search for water […]