The lucky peanuts were out and all eyes were on the screens at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where the signals from the faraway Juno probe showed the spacecraft slowing down to be captured in orbit around Gas Giant Jupiter.
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NASA celebrated the successful orbital insertion of the Juno spacecraft Monday night, becoming the second to enter orbit around the Gas Giant after the Galileo mission flown in the 1990s.
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Over a decade of work and $1.1 billion are riding on NASA’s Juno spacecraft igniting its engine Monday night and placing itself into orbit around the largest planet in the solar system.
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft in orbit around Ceres and New Horizons roaming the distant Kuiper Belt are among nine missions awarded funding for extended missions.
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft has received the final instructions from Planet Earth and is now flying on Autopilot in preparation for Monday night’s critical Jupiter Orbit Insertion Maneuver to mark the conclusion of a 2.8-billion Kilometer odyssey through the Solar System.
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft – currently in the midst of its fourth and last mission phase at Asteroid Ceres – unlocked the secrets of one of the asteroid’s most puzzling features, a prominent accumulation of bright material in a large crater.
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The LISA Pathfinder has begun its second and final mission phase in its quest to validate the technologies needed for a full-scale mission dedicated to the measurement of gravitational waves.
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A five-year, 2.8-billion Kilometer journey is about to reach its destination as NASA’s Juno spacecraft is on approach to Planet Jupiter, to become the second spacecraft to enter orbit around the gas giant for an unprecedented mission of discovery.
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SpaceX announced on Wednesday plans to send an unpiloted Dragon 2 spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018 to demonstrate the technologies needed for landing large payloads on the planet – an absolute necessity for future human exploration of our neighbor in the solar system.
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The United Arab Emirates Space Agency picked Japan’s H-IIA launch vehicle to launch the Mars Hope mission in 2020, the agency confirmed on Tuesday.
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ExoMars 2016 has been sent on its way to Mars on Monday after a day-long ascent mission atop a Proton-M/Briz-M launch vehicle taking the heaviest craft to visit Mars three times around planet Earth before being injected onto its Trans-Martian Trajectory.
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A heavy-lift Proton-M rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday, carrying the Russian-European ExoMars 2016 spacecraft to set out on a nine-month journey to Mars for an ambitious mission of discovery to unlock the secrets of the Martian past and present.
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A Proton-M rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 9:31 UTC on Monday, carrying the Russian-European ExoMars 2016 mission, set for a seven-month flight to deliver to Mars the Trace Gas Orbiter to study the Martian atmosphere and the Schiaparelli lander for an Entry, Descent and Landing demonstration.
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ExoMars 2016 is set for liftoff atop a Russian Proton rocket on Monday, blasting off from Site 200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 9:31:42 UTC on a mission of ten hours and 44 minutes, delivering the 4,332-Kilogram Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli lander to a trans-Martian Trajectory for a seven-month transit.
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NASA is not giving up on the Mars InSight mission, the agency announced on Wednesday, noting that the mission is targeting a launch date of May 5, 2018 after its 2016 launch campaign had to be suspended due to problems with the prime instrument of the stationary Mars lander.
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ESA’s LISA Pathfinder spacecraft arrived at its distant worksite, located 1.5 Million Kilometers from Earth for the mission’s ambitious demonstration of cutting edge technology needed for the measurement of gravitational waves, tiny ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
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China’s Yutu rover and the Chang’e 3 stationary lander are still alive after two years on the lunar surface, waking up last week to mark two full years spent inside Mare Imbrium having already passed their life expectancies by far.
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