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January 22, 2022

Breaking News

[ January 21, 2022 ] Science mission begins for NASA’s new eye on the X-ray universe Mission Reports
[ January 21, 2022 ] Live coverage: Atlas 5 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Atlas 5
[ January 20, 2022 ] ULA’s first launch of 2022 to debut unflown variant of Atlas 5 rocket Atlas 5
[ January 20, 2022 ] Atlas 5 rocket rolls to launch pad for Space Force mission Atlas 5
[ January 19, 2022 ] Spacewalking cosmonauts activate space station’s newest Russian module 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.