Spacecraft powered by electric propulsion ... starting off with prototypes on NASA's Deep Space 1 and the European Space Agency's SMART-1 in 1998 and 2003, respectively, and subsequently finding ...
When the flight team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California sends instructions to the spacecraft via the ...
The spacecraft's fault protection system ... transmissions on the S-band antenna could not be heard by NASA's Deep Space Network, meaning that Voyager 1 had effectively fallen silent.
Earlier this month, the Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid close to Earth. Turns out, it was ...