"Robotic Exploration" Blogs & Blog Posts

Europa Clipper is a space probe in development by NASA. The spacecraft is being developed to study the Galilean moon Europa through a series of flybys while in orbit around Jupiter.Post from: OrbitalHub...

VIPER is a lunar rover developed by NASA, and currently planned to be delivered to the surface of the Moon in November 2024.Post from: OrbitalHub...

Lucy studies the trojans that could reveal the "fossils of planet formation": materials that clumped together in the early history of the Solar System to form planets and other bodies.Post from: OrbitalHub...

Psyche is a NASA space mission launched on October 13, 2023 to explore the origin of planetary cores by orbiting and studying the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche beginning in 2029.Post from: OrbitalHub...

On September 24, 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully delivered samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth, following a seven-year mission that saw the spacecraft travel nearly four billion miles through deep-space. These samples could give insigh...

On September 24, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin engineers, containing a sample of the asteroid Bennu, finally returned to Earth after its seven-year mission. Getting a spacecraft out to an asteroid is a major achievement. And br...

OSIRIS-REx is a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission.Post from: OrbitalHub...