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Engineers Keep an Eye on Fuel Supply of NASA’s Oldest Mars Orbiter
NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter is depicted in this illustration. The mission team spent most of 2021 assessing how much propellant is left on the orbiter, concluding it has enough to stay active through at least 2025. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Measuring the fuel supply on Odyssey, a decades-old spacecraft without a fuel gauge, is no easy task.

Since NASA launched the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter to the Red Planet almost 22 years ago, the spacecraft has looped around Mars more than 94,000 times. That's about the equivalent of 1.37 billion miles (2.21 billion kilometers), a distance that has required extremely careful management of the spacecraft's .

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San Jose CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2023
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) reports that its Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base for its third demonstration mission targeted to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-7 mission next month. The Momentus team completed final flight preparations, and the Vigoride-6 OSV is integrated with the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The priorities of this mission include
Bethesda MD (SPX) Mar 14, 2023
In January 2023, NASA published the latest edition of the State of the Art in Small spacecraft Technology report. It is noteworthy that at the time of the first edition of this report in 2013, only 247 CubeSats and 105 other non-CubeSat small spacecraft under 50 kilograms (kg) had been launched worldwide. This represented less than 2% of the total mass launched into orbit over multiple yea
New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Mar 13, 2023
A team of Rutgers scientists dedicated to pinpointing the primordial origins of metabolism - a set of core chemical reactions that first powered life on Earth - has identified part of a protein that could provide scientists clues to detecting planets on the verge of producing life. The research, published in Science Advances, has important implications in the search for extraterrestrial li
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2023
When it comes to making a rapid estimate of ground motion and moment magnitude for an earthquake, using data from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) might be a good alternative or addition to data from seismic stations. Researchers were able to compare how well each type of data performed in assessing the 2021 magnitude 8.2 Chignik earthquake in Alaska, as they report in the journa
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2023
NASA held a virtual showcase last week to demonstrate the agency's efforts in transforming aviation to become more innovative and sustainable. The event called ImaginAviation focused on different areas of aerospace development, featuring NASA's subject matter experts in each area. One of the focus areas of the event was the use of drones for disaster response, specifically for persistent w
Tel Aviv, Israel, (SPX) Mar 10, 2023
Agmatix, a start-up AgTech business specializing in turning agronomic big data into powerful models and insights, has announced a partnership with NASA Harvest - NASA's global Food Security and Agriculture Consortium - to support crop production in a sustainable way at the field level and mitigate the impact of climate change. A combination of ground sampling and remote sensing data will b
San Mateo CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2023
QuSecure, Inc., a leader in post-quantum cybersecurity, has announced that the company has accomplished the first known live, end-to-end quantum-resilient cryptographic communications satellite link through space, marking the first time U.S. satellite data transmissions have been protected from classical and quantum decryption attacks using post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The quantum-secu
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