Satellite News

If you’ve been following the dramatic success of yesterday’s Mars touchdown, you may have Googled “Perseverance rover” today (Feb. 19) and seen your page lighting up with fireworks.

NASA just released an image showing its Perseverance Mars rover dangling about 6.5 feet (2 meters) above the red dirt during its picture-perfect touchdown inside Jezero Crater yesterday (Feb. 18).

NASA and Boeing are ready to light up the core stage of the massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket in a second hot fire test, currently scheduled for Thursday (Feb. 25).

NASA will hold a press conference today, Feb. 19, at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) to give an update on the Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars on Thursday.

NASA will hold a press conference today, Feb. 19, at 11 a.m. EST (1600 GMT) to discuss the upcoming launch of a Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-15 cargo ship to the International Space Station.

Great photos are just around the corner, but it’ll likely be a few months before Perseverance really starts sinking its teeth into its science work.

On Feb. 19, 1986, the Soviet Union launched the Mir space station. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

After a year of seemingly endless obstacles and challenges imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, something good finally happened: NASA landed the Perseverance rover on Mars.