NASA just laid out clear progress on the vehicles that will let astronauts move around the lunar south pole and help set up the first lasting outpost there. The October 20 update and accompanying video show both the robotic scouts and the crewed lunar terrain vehicles staying on schedule for delivery and arrival well before […]
NASA’s Space Reactor-1 Freedom keeps moving toward a late-2028 launch as the first spacecraft ever built to run fission power beyond Earth’s orbit. Announced back in March during the agency’s Ignition event, the mission pairs a compact reactor with hardware already under construction for the canceled lunar Gateway station. That reuse lets engineers hit the […]
NASA’s Perseverance rover crossed 28.10 miles on the surface of Mars on October 11, 2026. That figure edged past the 28.06 miles logged by the Opportunity rover, which explored the planet from 2004 until 2018. Perseverance reached the mark on its 2,006th Martian day after roughly five and a half years of operations. Opportunity required […]
NASA’s Curiosity rover took the frame on August 11, 2026, at 8:30 in the morning local time on Mars, about an hour after sunrise on sol 4,982. Six shots from the mast camera were stitched into one panorama after the files reached Earth. Mission staff left the usual white balance off, so the morning tint […]
Curiosity had been working its way down the Gediz Vallis channel on the flank of Mount Sharp for months. The rover’s wheels left fresh tracks in the loose soil and scattered stones as it hunted for clues about the planet’s ancient past. On May 30, 2024, during the 4,200th Martian day of the mission, one […]