The new approach called the Water-based Electric Thrusters (WET) aims to develop a method of converting water into plasma, a ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...

NASA’s pioneering Voyager 1 spacecraft is adventuring beyond our ... An engineer working with NASA’s Deep Space Network—the communications and tracking network that talks to Voyager 1 ...

They carry the story of Earth into deep space for any beings that might one ... The 1800-pound Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at ...

Deep Space Network operations, normally conducted at JPL, have been moved offsite to a back-up operations center.” In a bit of good news, the DSN team maintained contact with its spacecraft ...

This innovative propulsion concept was first used in 1998 on NASA’s Deep Space 1 mission to Comet Borrelly. In 2004 the Europeans successfully tested their own ion propulsion system on the Smart 1 ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft—currently cruising in interstellar ... “The two Voyager spacecraft could remain in the range of the Deep Space Network through about 2036, depending on how ...