China successfully launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, in the early hours of Thursday, May 29th. This mission is designed to shed light on the formation and evolution […]
Asteroid Missions
Reps from NASA, ESA, JAXA, ASI, KASA meet during COSPAR 2024 to coordinate and reinforce cooperation for asteroid Apophis mission
At the initiative of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), representatives from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Agenzia Spaziale […]
ESA: Radar journey to centre of Hera’s asteroid with Juventas CubeSat
A small, shoebox-sized spacecraft delivered to ESA’s Hera mission this week promises to make a giant leap forward in planetary science. Once deployed from the Hera spacecraft at the Didymos […]
Tyvak International’s Milani satellite delivered to ESA for the HERA mission
Tyvak International SRL (“Tyvak International”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Terran Orbital has completed the formal delivery of the Hera Milani satellite to the European Space Agency. Hera Milani is a […]
NASA confirms DART mission impact changed asteroid’s motion in space
Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft’s kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered […]
Tyvak International completes the Test Readiness Review of the Milani smallsat
Tyvak International — together with its project partners — have announced the successful achievement of the Test Readiness Review of the Milani spacecraft. A critical component of the Hera planetary […]
SPACEBEL + GomSpace sign contract for Juventas Operations
SPACEBEL and GomSpace have signed a contract for implementation of Juventas Operations, where HOOP’s advanced Mission Planning capabilities will be used. The contract valued at 930,000 euros will be implemented […]
NASA’s Bennu Asteroid sample contains carbon, water
Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected in space and brought to Earth by NASA show evidence of high-carbon content and water, which together could indicate the building […]
NASA’s Bennu asteroid sample contains carbon + water
Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected in space and brought to Earth by NASA show evidence of high-carbon content and water, which together could indicate the building […]
OSIRIS-REx sample capsule safely touches down with NASA’s first asteroid sample
Following a rapid and red-hot descent through Earth’s atmosphere, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule touched down in the desert at 8:52 a.m. MT on September 24th, returning NASA’s first-ever, asteroid […]