Greetings, Earth! NASA can understand Voyager 1 again

As of now, the usable data returned so far relates to how the spacecraft’s engineering systems are working. The team plans more software repair work in the next several weeks so that Voyager 1 can ... Read More

Watch Rocket Lab launch new NASA solar sail tech to orbit today

The agency's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, or ACS3 for short, is one of two payloads scheduled to lift off atop a Rocket Lab Electron vehicle from New Zealand today, during an hourlong window ... Read More

NASA Gets Engineering Data from Voyager 1 After Months of Garbled Transmissions

Voyager 1 launched 46 years ago, so you'd expect a little wear and tear on the spacecraft. The Voyager team has kept the probe online, although some of its more power-hungry instruments have been shut ... Read More

NASA's Voyager 1 resumes sending engineering updates to Earth

For the first time since November, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to ... Read More

NASA's Voyager 1 Is Finally Making Sense After Months of Transmitting Gibberish

JPL engineers pinpointed the cause behind the anomaly and came up with a clever plan to rescue the iconic mission. Read More

NASA is designing a time zone just for the moon

Timekeeping works differently up there. By Andrew Paul | Published Apr 3, 2024 10:57 AM EDT The White House has instructed the agency to begin looking into Coordinated Lunar Time ahead of our ... Read More

The moon could get its own time zone. Here's why.

The moon could soon get its own time zone. The White House is directing NASA to work with other government agencies to develop a lunar-based time system called Coordinated Lunar Time, abbreviated ... Read More

Nasa's Europa Clipper gears up for Jupiter's Moon

NEW DELHI: Nasa's Europa Clipper spacecraft has undergone a stringent series of environmental tests, simulating the harsh conditions it will face on its journey to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa. Read More

NASA ordered by White House to establish new clock system for the moon

The White House has ordered NASA and other U.S. agencies to develop a new timekeeping ... have a final plan by the end of 2026. NASA is aiming to send astronauts around the moon in September ... Read More

A Separate Time Zone For Moon? Decoding NASA's Grand Plan

"An atomic clock on the moon will tick at a different rate than a clock on Earth," Kevin Coggins, NASA's top communications ... Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) told news agency ... Read More

NASA's new astronauts are excited for April's total eclipse: 'I'm going to be that little kid all over again' (exclusive)

New NASA astronaut Andre Douglas used to study the sun's behavior for a living. This puts Douglas, who passed basic NASA astronaut training on March 5, in the perfect position to talk about the ... Read More

3 companies win NASA contracts to develop new Artemis moon rover designs

Along with funding the commercial development of new rockets ... will fundamentally change our view of the moon." NASA's long-range plans for Artemis also include a pressurized rover that could ... Read More