Mission control is characterized by satellites being highly complex and expensive technical system which are out of reach once they are in orbit. The spacecraft is connected with its operators by only ...

Certified space-nerd and all-around retro-tech guru [Fran Blanche] has just outdone herself with a comprehensive look at how NASA ran the Mission Control ... system. Glass and metal stencils ...

Large space missions are expensive, so using a much less expensive spacecraft to collect preliminary data on the mission ... it or a similar system will see the light of interplanetary space.

But about nine minutes into the mission ... 100 people on long-duration interplanetary flights. In January, SpaceX also lost ...

The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), the Indian Space Research Organisation ’s (ISRO’s) first interplanetary mission, completed 4 years on Monday. This mission made India the first country to enter ...