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Artist's concept of CubeSats near Jupiter's moon Europa. Image Credit: NASA/JPL

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JPL Selects CubeSat Proposals for Europa Clipper Mission Study

October 8, 2014October 16, 2014Zero-G News AdminComment(0)

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has chosen proposals from 10 universities to study CubeSat concepts that could enhance a Europa mission concept currently under study by NASA. The CubeSat concepts will be incorporated into a JPL study describing how small probes could be carried as auxiliary payloads. The CubeSats would then be released […]

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NASA’s Juno Photographs Spectacular Views Of Earth And Moon During Flyby

December 10, 2013December 18, 2013Zero-G News AdminComment(0)

When NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew past Earth on Oct. 9, 2013, it received a boost in speed of more than 8,800 mph (about 3.9 kilometers per second), which set it on course for a July 4, 2016, rendezvous with Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. One of Juno’s sensors, a special kind of […]