Above: Helelani in the field at the HOST Park’s lunar analog site in Kailua-Kona. Operators in California used a graphic user interface to navigate the rover remotely. The PISCES planetary rover “Helelani” was back in the field at a planetary analog...
Credit: NASA NASA’s Artemis I mission made history on Monday, Nov. 28 when the uncrewed Orion spacecraft reached its maximum distance from Earth of 268,563 miles—farther than any spacecraft designed for human space travel has flown from our home planet....
Above: A trail of debris scatters in the wake of asteroid moonlet Didymos after NASA’s DART spacecraft pummeled it surface. Credit: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) in late September made history by using a spacecraft to...
Above: The DART spacecraft captured this image of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Sept. 26 just 11 seconds before impact. Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL After orbiting the Sun for 10 months in pursuit of an asteroid, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)...
Credit: NASA NASA is poised to launch Artemis I, the first in the Artemis Program’s series of planned missions to return humans to the Moon in the coming years. The 1.3-million-mile flight is scheduled for launch on Saturday, Sept. 3, at 8:17 a.m. HST and will...
Four teams of students from countries around the world took the controls of our Helelani rover last month, July 20, to conduct a simulated lunar mission as part of a tele-robotics lunar event hosted in the U.S. and Canada. Organized by the Moon Village...
