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Photos: New U.S. weather observatory buttoned up for launch
United Launch Alliance encapsulated the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R, GOES-R, on Oct. 21 at the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida.
Final Pluto data transmission received from flyby probe
The last bits of data collected during NASA's New Horizons spacecraft's speedy flyby of Pluto last year are back on Earth, scientists said Thursday, marking the official end of the probe's prime mission.
New images resolve finer details of Mars lander’s crash site
Imagery captured by a sharp-eyed camera aboard a NASA orbiter shows where Europe's Schiaparelli lander cratered on Mars last week, exploding into fine bits of shrapnel and debris after after an apparent software problem doomed the mission, officials said Thursday.
GOES-R weather satellite’s ride to space being stacked at Cape Canaveral
Technicians began the painstaking work of assembling a powerful Atlas 5 rocket today, a launcher that will deploy an advanced satellite to substantially improve U.S. weather forecasting.
Mars orbiter locates Schiaparelli lander’s crash site
Views from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter released Friday show the crash site where Europe's Schiaparelli lander fell to the red planet's surface from a height of several miles, leaving a distinct dark patch on the Martian landscape.
Last data from Schiaparelli Mars lander hold clues to what went wrong
The first sign of trouble from Europe’s Schiaparelli lander came around the time the probe was supposed to jettison its parachute and fire thrusters to brake for touchdown on the vast equatorial plains of Mars, officials said Thursday.
ESA celebrates ExoMars orbiter success, keeps vigil for lost lander
A European-built orbiter designed to seek out the source of methane on Mars slipped into orbit around the red planet Wednesday after a seven-month interplanetary journey, but mission control lost contact with an experimental landing probe just before touchdown.
Live coverage: ExoMars orbiter steers into orbit around Mars, lander’s fate TBD
Europe's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli lander arrived at Mars Wednesday, with the orbiter safely captured by Martian gravity after a critical engine firing. The lander's fate is unknown after mission control lost contact just before touchdown.
European Mars lander released from ExoMars mothership
A saucer-shaped entry, descent and landing demonstrator separated from Europe's ExoMars orbiter Sunday, beginning a three-day approach aiming to become the first European-built craft to set down on the red planet and return data.
Mission managers keeping Juno in elongated orbit until December
Ground teams are buying more time to study two sluggish valves inside the Juno spacecraft's fuel pressurization system and postponing a major engine burn that was scheduled for next week to reshape the probe's orbit around Jupiter, officials said Friday.