The #SaveVERITAS effort is pushing a 2029 launch date for the Venus orbiter, which is delayed indefinitely by problems at NASA.
President Biden's 2024 budget request pulled a chunk of funding from NASA's VERITAS mission, save for $1.5 million to help sustain the science team.
An independent review board highlighted challenges related to budget, staffing, and poor communications.
NASA will test the spacecraft’s asteroid-tracking navigation system during the impromptu encounter, slated for November.
NASA says the circular solar array is 98% unfurled and providing adequate power to the Lucy spacecraft, currently en route to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
The lander did not respond to pings from NASA after months of dwindling power.
A review of the upcoming Psyche mission found a host of issues with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, resulting in the delay of a completely unrelated mission.
The space agency is targeting a launch date in October 2023 for its asteroid mission.
The impact was intense enough that NASA's InSight lander detected the seismic waves from over 2,000 miles away.
The images, showing the orbs separated by the brooding darkness of space, were taken as the Lucy spacecraft came by for a gravitational assist.
The space agency has prepared two maneuvers to prevent the spacecraft from colliding with a satellite inside the most crowded region of Earth's orbit.
The 55-pound probe entered safe mode during a trajectory correction maneuver on September 8.
Lucy is currently en route to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, but a problematic solar array potentially threatened the groundbreaking mission.
Tech delays mean that the spacecraft may not arrive at the metallic asteroid until 2030.
The Mars probe will continue scientific operations until late August at least, NASA said.
The inability of NASA to launch the Psyche probe on time shows the limitations and risks involved in low-cost rideshare missions.
A failure to fix Lucy's partially deployed array could result in further damage to the spacecraft.
The dust-covered probe will focus on collecting data during its final months on Mars.
Recent tests of Lucy's four onboard cameras suggest the probe is ready to capture unprecedented views of Jupiter's enigmatic Trojans.
After a lanyard fell off its spool, NASA is mulling whether to try again to deploy the solar panel—or do nothing.
