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Astrobotic has been selected by NASA’s Mars Exploration Program for two concept studies of commercial services to support lower-cost, higher-frequency missions to Mars. The company will examine how two potential commercial services, payload delivery and surface imaging, could enable...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured this image (which has been cropped) of the Earth on Oct 15, 2022, as a part of an instrument calibration sequence at a distance of 380,000 miles (620,000 km). The upper left of the image...
This view of Jupiter's icy moon Europa was captured by JunoCam, the public engagement camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, during the mission's close flyby on Sept. 29, 2022. Citizen scientist Björn Jónsson processed the view to create this image....
MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS, INC.SAN DIEGO, CA 92191-0148TELEPHONE: (858) 552-2650, EXT. 500http://www.msss.com/Contact: Michael Ravine, ravine@msss.comFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 14 September 2020 MSSS TO PROVIDE SCIENCE CAMERAS FOR JANUS ASTEROID MISSION Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) has been selected to provide...
It’s the kind of record that’s hard to achieve in the unforgiving business of exploring space.San Diego’s Malin Space Science Systems has flown its cameras on nine NASA missions. Some of the spacecraft failed. But the imagers never did....
NavCam Images from Orbit During Orbital A phase, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s NavCam 1 navigation camera is regularly imaging Bennu’s surface, even though its scientific camera suite (OCAMS) is not collecting data. The navigation team uses these “OpNav” (short...
NavCam Image of Earth, the Moon, and Bennu On Dec. 19, OSIRIS-REx used its NavCam 1 camera to capture this image of three familiar planetary bodies: asteroid Bennu, Earth, and the moon. Despite the spacecraft’s distance from home...
Light from the plumes and fires of Io on Earth’s darkest nightDec. 31, 2018 — A team of space scientists has captured new images of a volcanic plume on Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s 17th flyby of...
MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS, INC.SAN DIEGO, CA 92191-0148TELEPHONE: (858) 552-2650, EXT. 500http://www.msss.com/Contact: Michael Ravine, ravine@msss.comFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 15 November 2018  MSSS SIGNS CONTRACT WITH LOCKHEED MARTIN FOR 2021 LUCY JUPITER TROJAN MISSION   Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS)...
MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS, INC. SAN DIEGO, CA 92191-0148 TELEPHONE: (858) 552-2650, EXT. 500 http://www.msss.com/ Contact: Michael Ravine, ravine@msss.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 08 June 2017     JunoCam Photographs Jupiter from Pole to Pole   NASA’s...