NASA InSight Ready to Hit the Martian Atmosphere at 12,300 MPH
22 Nov 2018, 10:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's InSight lander is scheduled to begin its descent to Mars on Monday, November 26. NASA will know within minutes if all worked as planned
Mars 2020 Rover to Look for Life in the Jezero Crater
20 Nov 2018, 10:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA decides on a landing site for the 2020 Mars rover. The location chosen for the landing is the Jezero Crater north of the planet's interior
InSight Mars Landing to Air Live on November 26
14 Nov 2018, 08:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA to broadcast the landing of the InSight mission on Mars on November 26 from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California
SpaceX Tesla Roadster Heads for the Restaurant at the End of the Universe
5 Nov 2018, 10:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Tesla Roadster sent in space at the beginning of the year is on a 577 days orbit around the Sun that now puts it beyond Mars
NASA Details InSight Spacecraft Mars Landing Plan
1 Nov 2018, 11:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The InSight spacecraft is scheduled to land on Mars on November 26, in a region known as Elysium Planitia. Mission will begin soon after landing
CubeSat Tracking the NASA InSIght Mission Take First Photo of Mars
23 Oct 2018, 15:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the two CubeSats accompanying the InSight mission to Mars took a phot of the Red Planet from 8 million miles (12.8 million km) away.
NASA Astronauts to Land on Mars and Find Elon Musk There
27 Sep 2018, 08:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA doesn not plan to put humans on Mars before 2030. By that time, Elon Musk said earlier this week a full SpaceX Martian base will be ready
NASA Takes a Photo of Opportunity Rover From Mars Orbit
26 Sep 2018, 07:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took a photo of Mars to capture on film the Opportunity rover, some 100 days after contact with it was lost
SpaceX Martian Colony Mars Base Alpha Could Be Operational by 2030
25 Sep 2018, 08:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Elon Musk tweets that Mars Base Alpha might be up and running around the year 2028, four year after the first humans are planned to reach the Red Planet.
NASA Stops Curiosity Rover Operations Due to Communications Issues
20 Sep 2018, 09:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA engineers are working to fix an unknown problem with the Curiosity rover that prevents it since last weekend to send data to Earth
Elon Musk Tweets Photos of Big Falcon Rocket Leaving Earth, Declares OccupyMars
17 Sep 2018, 07:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Elon Musk released two new photos showing the Big Falcon rocket. SpaceX expected to announce name of first space tourist later on Monday
NASA Begins Poking Opportunity to Get it up and Running
13 Sep 2018, 12:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA starts the contact procedure for the Opportunity much more determined than initially planned, calling the rover several times a day.
Big Falcon Rocket Ship Interior Rendered by Fan
13 Sep 2018, 10:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / PhD candidate Nick Oberg creates a rendering of the interior of the ship that will set off to Mars on top of the Big Falcon Rocket.
SpaceX Says Big Falcon Rocket Testing Possible in Late 2019
7 Sep 2018, 13:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / SpaceX COO pushes the expected date for testing of the Big Falcon Rocket Stage two from the first half to the end of next year.
Curiosity Rover Snaps a Photo of the Dust Storm That Battered Opportunity
7 Sep 2018, 09:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA releases new images sent back to Earth by the Curiosity rover from the Vera Rubin Ridge on Mars. Dust storm can be seen.
NASA Testing New Supersonic Mars 2020 Lander Parachute on September 7
3 Sep 2018, 11:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Third test of the ASPIRE supersonic parachute is set to take place on September 7 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
NASA Gives Opportunity Until January to Respond, Mission to End If It Doesn’t
3 Sep 2018, 07:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA official says the final deadline for the Opportunity rover to respond might be the end of January 2019, plug to be pulled after that.
SpaceX Martian Colony to Grow Around The Big Falcon Rocket
31 Aug 2018, 14:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / SpaceX says the Big Falcon Rocket which will bring humans to Mars will act as their initial home in the early days of colonisation.
NASA Calls Opportunity Three Times a Week, No Response
31 Aug 2018, 10:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA still unable to contact the Opportunity rover following the largest dust storm recorded on Mars in several decades.
NASA InSight Lander Takes a Selfie in Space
21 Aug 2018, 09:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA asks the InSight lander to take a selfie of the inside of the spacecraft's backshell while engineers are testing its instruments.