NASA Issues Major Update on 2032 Path of 'City Killer' Asteroid

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is big and dangerous enough that it has been dubbed a "city killer." There were concerns that the asteroid ...

NASA's DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid's orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its ...
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NASA Confirms DART Mission was the First Human-Made Object to Alter an Asteroid’s Orbit

NASA says an impact from its DART spacecraft changed the orbit of an asteroid for the first time ever, offering hope for planetary defense.
Arizona Daily Star

Study: Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around sun in save-the-Earth test

It's the first time a celestial body's orbit around the sun was deliberately changed. The asteroid that NASA's Dart ...

Spacecraft’s impact changed asteroid’s orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds

Launched in 2021 on the world’s first planetary defense exercise, the Dart spacecraft deliberately plowed into Dimorphos, which orbits a bigger asteroid, Didymos, as they circle the sun together. The ...
PRIMETIMER

How did NASA Wallops assist the Rocket Lab HASTE launch? Range support services explained

NASA Wallops Flight Facility provided tracking, telemetry, and range safety support for Rocket Lab’s HASTE suborbital Cassowary Vex launch, enabling a hypersonic test flight for the Defense Innovation ...
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Inside NASA’s most secretive space lab

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory began in the 1930s with a small group of experimental rocket enthusiasts and grew into one of the most influential centers of space exploration in history. From ...

3D-printed spring deploys on small commercial spacecraft

With a simple motion, a jack-in-the-box-like spring designed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed the potential of additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, to cut costs and complexity ...
CNET

NASA Drove Its Mars Rover Using AI for the First Time. Here's How It Went

On Earth, we can punch an address into Google Maps and be on our way in seconds. But plotting a course for NASA's Perseverance rover, 140 million miles away on Mars, is significantly more difficult.
Los Angeles Times

JPL’s rough ride: Can California’s shining star of space science recover?

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. JPL laid off 550 employees Tuesday — the fourth round in a series of layoffs that cut a quarter of employees over ...
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab Is Laying Off Over 500 Employees - Here's Why

In a brief statement, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Director Dave Gallagher announced that the organization is letting go of around 550 employees at its La Cañada Flintridge facility in ...
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Layoffs Come For NASA As The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sheds 10% Of Its Workforce

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA's federally funded research and development center operated by the California Institute of Technology, announced Monday that it will be laying off ...