Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by NASA to execute the preliminary design and development of the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO). It is to be deployed in lunar orbit as the first crew module of the NASA Gateway, a space station orbiting the moon providing vital support for long-term ...
The ESA has launched its Solar Orbiter mission which will take images of previously unseen regions of the Sun. The ESA (European Space Agency), in collaboration with NASA, launched the Solar Orbiter spacecraft from Cape Canaveral on 10 February. It will also investigate how intense radiation and energetic particles being blasted ...
A larger number of commercial organisations have expressed an interest in space as a new and exciting sector. The private sector has long been tied to government space exploration. In recent years, more companies have embarked on their own space exploration projects as the stratosphere has become easier to explore. Companies ...
NASA worked with the Naval Research laboratory (NRL) to produce detailed images of the sun with a solar probe. The NRL’s Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) took detailed images of the sun on NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission. Images captured include the dust-free zone around the sun, magnetic flux ...