Why NASA’s Mars missions will be silent for weeks
NASA is standing down from commanding its Mars missions for the next couple ofweeks While the Earth and Red Planet are on opposite sides of the sun– in the biennial Mars solar combination– the worlds are not able to “see” each other. MARS IMAGES SHOW DETERMINATION ROVER AT WORK The sun gives off hot, ionized […]
New LightSail 2 spacecraft will boost solar-sailing interplanetary missions
LightSail 2, set to release no earlier than June 13, 2018, will show up to observers on the ground as it orbits Earth for a month or more.(Credit: The Planetary Society) A new solar-sailing spacecraft will be a call to all (future) residents of interplanetary craft. The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft will be a […]