NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on its voyage to an asteroid of the same name, a metal-rich world that could tell us more about the formation of rocky planets.
Slated to launch on Oct. 12 with the Psyche mission, DSOC will demonstrate technologies enabling the agency to transmit higher data rates from deep space.
Alabama will be watching as NASA lands Mars rover where Huntsville scientist suggested
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
Posted Feb 17, 2021
The aeroshell containing NASA’s Perseverance rover guides itself towards the Martian surface as it descends through the atmosphere in this illustration. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land on Mars safely on Feb. 18, 2021.
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NASA will try to land Perseverance, its fifth Mars rover, on the Red Planet Thursday in a series of must-work maneuvers that includes a 12,000-mph plunge through the thin Martian atmosphere, a braking parachute opening and a “sky crane” descent to the surface.