Caltech – Spaceflight Now

September 21, 2019

Breaking News

[ September 20, 2019 ] Launch of South Korean lunar orbiter delayed to 2022 Falcon 9
[ September 20, 2019 ] Japanese cargo launch reset for Monday after fire Mission Reports
[ September 19, 2019 ] NASA still looking for new human spaceflight chief Mission Reports
[ September 19, 2019 ] Five Chinese smallsats launched by Long March 11 rocket Mission Reports
[ September 18, 2019 ] NASA’s Juno spacecraft sees moon’s otherworldly shadow on Jupiter Mission Reports

NASA’s first interplanetary smallsats may struggle to stay under cost caps

August 5, 2019

The first set of proposals for a new class of small robotic probes NASA wants to dispatch across the solar system came in with higher cost estimates than agency officials expected, a NASA manager said Sunday.

Q&A with Jamie Bock, principal investigator of NASA’s SPHEREx mission (members only)

February 14, 2019

Jamie Bock, a professor of physics at Caltech, is principal investigator of the SPHEREx astrophysics mission selected by NASA on Feb. 13 as the next medium-class mission in the agency’s line of Explorer probes.