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Saw it shut off its engine. [ cheers and applause ] >> all right. nominal orbit insertion. >> you have come before and many are about to follow. the door is opening now. its pretty incredible. >> stage one landing is complete. >> success. [ cheers and applause ] >> we just heard from jared thanking everyone for making this mission possible. the dragon capsule and crew are

RPWI – Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation How is the UK involved? UKSA has invested approximately £9 million spanning across all UK involvement in the mission up to instrument delivery. The UK is leading the development of the magnetometer, J-MAG. The team at Imperial College London are led by Principal Investigator, Prof. Michele Dougherty. Scientific measurements from the J-MAG magnetometer will lead to an understanding of the formation of the Galilean satellites, a characterisation of thei...

Leonardo engineering robotic arms for future Mars rovers February 25, 2021 NASA’s Perseverance rover reached Mars on February 18, 2021, for the Mars Sample Return program. After what NASA described as ‘seven minutes of terror’, the module successfully descended into Martian atmosphere where it was deposited into a dried, former lake bed. The rover will scour Mars in the coming years to collect soil samples that will be carried back to Earth, for study and analysis for cl...

Can you give me one in about 30 seconds? over all these years, is there something that stands out? >> well, saturn orbit insertion was the thing i worked on the hardest. we spent tens of thousands of hours building the procedure that had to work and it had to work and it had to have -- go through every fault protection. we chased every rabbit hole that we could, making the spacecraft self-sufficient so that it could get into orbit. and then the titan probe, dropping titan probe on titan itself. ...