• NASA Made Contact with Satellite That’s Been Missing for 10 Years

    NASA Made Contact with Satellite That’s Been Missing for 10 Years

    NASA has just rediscovered a satellite that it lost in space over a decade ago. The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) was launched in 2000 to create the first comprehensive images of atmospheric plasma. It completed its initial mission in 2000, but it failed to make contact again in 2005.  Scientists had hoped an eclipse…

  • Donald Trump Signs Directive to Put Humans Back on the Moon

    Donald Trump Signs Directive to Put Humans Back on the Moon

    The Trump administration has been talking about putting people on the moon.  Not only that, he’s taken action in order to ensure that it happens. The White House has stated that the President has signed the Space Policy Directive 1, which orders NASA to lead an “innovative space exploration program” that sends astronauts to the…

  • NASA to Start Using Voyager Thrusters That Have Been Dormant for 37 Years

    NASA to Start Using Voyager Thrusters That Have Been Dormant for 37 Years

    Over the last 40 years, NASA’s Voyager 1 has been drifting farther and farther away from the Earth.  NASA is now saying they can maintain contact with Voyager for at least two or three more years by waking up a set of backup thrusters that it hasn’t used since 1980.  This is important as Voyager…