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Khabre desk
Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the spacecraft engineering desk.
technology
NASA has completed integrating and testing the solar arrays on the NEO Surveyor mission’s sunshade. The structure will shield the infrared telescope from sunlight while providing power for the spacecraft.
science
NASA says an engineering model of its DAVINCI Venus probe completed six furnace cycles reaching 465°C. The test evaluated the model’s thermal protection ahead of the probe’s planned descent through Venus’ atmosphere.
science
NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft has received its flight electrical harness, while the International Astronomical Union has named its planned Titan landing region Ahmakiq Undae.