The spacecraft weighs just 440 pounds (200 kilograms) and is 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) across when its solar panels are fully deployed. “Unlike the norm for small missions that may only have a very ...

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Annette Dolbow has been in the field of Spacecraft Integration and Test for over 27 years. She has been at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics lab for 20 years. Currently she is the Mission Integration and ...

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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft conducted the first and only flyby of the Pluto system, culminating at the closest approach of that distant world in July 2015. Sailing onward, the probe carried out ...

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The spacecraft is currently on its way to orbit Jupiter and investigate the planet's three ocean-bearing icy moons—Ganymede, Callisto and Europa—with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and ...

Ultimately, this means a few fewer weeks on the orbiting outpost for the two-person Starliner crew who have been in space since June. Their return will not be on the spacecraft originally intended.