The Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) is featured on NASA’s new Analog Missions website. PISCES is listed under the In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) section for our work with NASA on Mauna Kea. ISRU is the harnessing of local...
A color view from NASA’s Juno spacecraft made from some of the first images taken by JunoCam after the spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter on July 5th. Credit: NASA NASA recently published the first images captured by the Juno spacecraft. “This scene...
Juno. Credit: NASA NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit on July 4. “This is the one time I don’t mind being stuck in a windowless room on the night of the 4th of July,” said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from Southwest...
PISCES Logistics and EPO Manager John Hamilton is seen here with members of NASA’s BASALT project in Idaho’s Craters of the Moon park. PISCES Logistics and EPO Manager John Hamilton returned to Hawaii recently after a week of participating in NASA’s...
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Credit: NASA Chemicals found in Martian rocks by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover suggest the Red Planet once had more oxygen in its atmosphere than it does now. Researchers found high levels of manganese oxides by using a laser-firing...
The Volocopter. Credit: RobbReport The Economist recently reported on a company in Germany that has developed a one-of-a-kind “Volocopter.” According to the story, the device is “more stable than a conventional helicopter.” These...