Congratulations to Caltech's Prof. Bethany Ehlmann and her team on NASA's selection this morning of the Lunar Trailblazer concept to receive funding to further develop and mature the concept design. If eventually selected for flight out of the three finalists, Lunar Trailblazer will directly detect and map water on the lunar surface to determine how its form, abundance, and location relate to geology.
Read more2019 Caltech Space Challenge tasked student teams with designing a mission to Saturn's icy moon
Read moreKISS invests in great ideas that sometimes take years to come to fruition. 2012-2017 seed funding from KISS helped make the Zwicky Transient Facility discovery of exotic asteroids possible. One of these asteroids, called 2019 AQ3, was found last month and has an orbital period of just 165 days, the shortest known "year" for any asteroid!
Check out the whole story hereThe organizers of the 2017 Caltech Space Challenge are pleased to announce that they had received an unprecedented amount applications this year. There are 840 candidates who will be competing for a chance to participate in the space mission design competition that involves engineering a Lunarport supply station for deep-space missions. The number of candidates this year is greater than the amount of applicants from the past three challenges combined. Selecting 32 finalists from so many highly qualified students will result in a 3.8% acceptance rate. The organizers will be announcing their selections in early 2017.
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