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August 16, 2018

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[ August 15, 2018 ] Hayabusa 2 probe gets a closer look at asteroid amid landing preps News
[ August 15, 2018 ] Spacewalkers toss nanosatellites into orbit, hook up bird migration monitor Mission Reports
[ August 15, 2018 ] Video replay: Parker Solar Probe launches atop Delta 4-Heavy Delta 4
[ August 13, 2018 ] Photos: Delta 4-Heavy takes off from Cape Canaveral Delta 4
[ August 12, 2018 ] NASA launches Parker Solar Probe on historic mission Delta 4

Q&A with Andrew Driesman, project manager for Parker Solar Probe (members only)

July 31, 2018

Andrew Driesman is project manager for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, leading a team of engineers and operators in charge of the first mission to fly through the sun’s atmosphere.

Video: Falcon 9 soars to orbit blowing smoke rings on the way (members only)

July 23, 2018

Spaceflight Now’s camera records the ascent of the second Falcon 9 block 5 rocket carrying the Telstar 19 VANTAGE communications satellite. Watch for smoke rings as the vehicle passes goes supersonic.

Q&A with Heino Falcke, principal investigator of the Netherlands-China Low-Frequency Explorer (members only)

June 1, 2018

Heino Falcke, an accomplished radio astronomer at Radboud University in the Netherlands, leads a team of European scientists and engineers who developed a scientific receiver flying on China’s Queqiao spacecraft flying to a point in space beyond the far side of the moon.

Q&A with Mimi Aung, Mars Helicopter project manager at JPL (members only)

May 14, 2018

Mimi Aung leads a cadre of engineers developing the Mars Helicopter, an aerial drone set to fly to the Red Planet with the Mars 2020 rover.

Q&A with Bruce Banerdt, principal investigator on NASA’s InSight mission (members only)

May 3, 2018

Bruce Banerdt leads the InSight science team, and is in charge of the lander heading for Mars to study the red planet’s interior structure, collecting data that should yield new information about the environment in the early solar system, when planets coalesced and formed 4.5 billion years ago.

Falcon 9 launches TESS as seen from KSC Press Site (members only)

April 18, 2018

A Falcon 9 rocket soars skyward from Cape Canaveral carrying NASA’s TESS observatory on a mission to discover planets around other stars. This was the view from the Kennedy Space Center Press Site.

Q&A with Sara Seager, deputy director of science on NASA’s TESS mission (members only)

April 15, 2018

Sara Seager is an astrophysicist and planetary scientist at MIT, and she serves as deputy science director on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which aims to find planets around stars relatively close to the sun, searching for worlds that are ideal follow-up targets for missions like the James Webb Space Telescope.

Q&A with George Ricker, principal investigator for the TESS mission (members only)

April 14, 2018

George Ricker, an astronomer and pioneer in space imaging sensor ships at MIT, leads the science team for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

Q&A with Mike Laidley, vice president of Orbital ATK’s Next Generation Launch program (members only)

April 10, 2018

Mike Laidley leads development of Orbital ATK’s Next Generation Launch system, a rocket the commercial space company hopes will provide a foothold in the lucrative market to launch U.S. military satellites, a business currently dominated by SpaceX and United Launch Alliance.

Video: Press site view of SpaceX resupply launch (members only)

April 2, 2018

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared into orbit Monday from Cape Canaveral with nearly three tons of hardware and supplies for the International Space Station.

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