Chop Shop on Tuesday (April 8) began seeking fans of robotic satellites and interplanetary spacecraft to help them create a ...

NASA's Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia celebrated its 60th anniversary on March 19 while also breaking ...

But fear, Gialich emphasized, is an element of the job that he believes AstroForge should embrace as the company prepares to launch its robotic spacecraft ... AstroForge is a poster child for ...

Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...

Canberra joined the global network in 1965 and operates four radio antennas. Now, preparations have begun on its fifth as ...

This has been the case with NASA's twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. In order to save power so that both objects can continue to explore space, experts have shut down the cosmic ray ...

The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive plutonium. Going where no spacecraft has gone before: NASA shuts down ...

However, no missions capture the power of RTGs quite like the Voyager missions. NASA launched the twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1977 to take a tour of the outer solar system and then ...

Early spacecraft typified some of these differences. The magnetometers carried by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft consisted of two different devices: a high-field magnetometer (to measure very ...

The RTGs on the Voyager probes have allowed the spacecraft to stay powered up while they collect data. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech RTGs have been key to the success of many of NASA’s solar system ...