JPL – Spaceflight Now

November 26, 2022

Breaking News

[ November 26, 2022 ] Live coverage: SpaceX aims to launch space station resupply mission today Falcon 9
[ November 25, 2022 ] Live coverage: Orion capsule completes distant retrograde orbit insertion burn Artemis
[ November 23, 2022 ] Defying weather odds, SpaceX sends Eutelsat broadband platform into orbit Falcon 9
[ November 22, 2022 ] NASA managers thrilled with initial results of Artemis moon mission Artemis
[ November 22, 2022 ] SpaceX resupply launch to space station delayed until Saturday Falcon 9

NASA eyes ion engines for Mars orbiter launching in 2022

March 3, 2015

NASA officials want the agency’s next Mars orbiter to pull double duty as a communications relay station for a fleet of surface landers and as a trailblazer for a future round-trip sample return mission and human expeditions to the red planet.

Rover data suggest Mars crater once contained long-lived lake

December 10, 2014

Scientists analyzing imagery from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover believe sediments left by an ancient lake more than three billion years ago formed a towering mountain that is set to be the robot’s research subject for the rest of its mission on the red planet.