All
All
All
Jason Davis • July 11, 2019 • 4
PlanetVac, a technology that simplifies the process of collecting samples from other worlds, may fly to the Moon.
Jason Davis • July 09, 2019 • 3
Sail deployment is now scheduled for no earlier than 21 July 2019.
Sridhar Narayanan • July 08, 2019 • 3
A preview guide for India's upcoming Moon mission.
Jason Davis • July 07, 2019 • 10
Pictures taken by the spacecraft's cameras Friday evening show a crescent Earth, as LightSail 2 heads into orbital sunset.
Jason Davis • July 05, 2019
Would you like to see the latest data from The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft—possibly before flight controllers have even seen it? Now you can!
Jason Davis • July 03, 2019
The mission team is working through a 73-step checklist to check out the spacecraft’s systems and perform various tests.
Emily Lakdawalla • July 03, 2019
So many Apollo-related books have come out in the first half of 2019 that I decided to cover them in a special summer book-recommendation blog. I have 5 brand-new Apollo-related books to recommend for kids, and include others I've recommended in past years.
Jason Davis • July 02, 2019 • 2
The test showed Orion can blast itself away from the Space Launch System if the big rocket fails while attempting to fly to orbit.
Emily Lakdawalla • July 02, 2019 • 3
InSight has detected a couple more small Marsquakes, and the team has lifted the housing of the heat probe off the ground, exposing the top of the mole in a surprisingly wide hole.
Jason Davis • July 02, 2019 • 1
The mission team received LightSail 2's first signals on 2 July at 01:34 PDT (08:34 UTC), as the spacecraft passed over Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in California.
Become a member of The Planetary Society and together we will create the future of space exploration.
LightSail 2 launched aboard the SpaceX Falcon Heavy. Be part of this epic point in space exploration history!
Sun
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune