NASA’s Dragonfly spacecraft is scheduled to launch in summer 2028 and reach Saturn’s moon Titan in late 2034. The rotorcraft’s landing area on Titan has been named – Ahmakiq Undae. The region consists of dunes and interdune areas to the south of Selk Crater, extending to the edge of a range of hills or mountains. […]

Getting a privately-backed robotic mission en route to Venus has become about as foggy as the planet itself. Enter a Rocket Lab-backed kick-starter of a spacecraft hike to that cloud-enveloped world, matched up with the step-by-step agenda of a scientific group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The first step on that program is […]

A National Security Science and Technology Strategy has been issued August 31 by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The document is focused on science and technology competition as it relates to military capabilities, homeland defense and resilience, and other direct intersections with national security. Priority areas The strategy identifies three priority […]