US Warns Its Space Industry Against Cyberattacks, Hacking by Foreign Entities

US Warns Its Space Industry Against Cyberattacks, Hacking by Foreign Entities

ByNews Polite

US counterintelligence agencies on Friday warned the American space industry to guard against efforts by foreign intelligence entities to steal research and trade secrets as they try to boost their own countries’ space programs.  “We anticipate growing threats to this burgeoning sector of the US economy,” a US counterintelligence official…

NASA Spacecrafts at Mars Record Biggest Meteor Strikes, Impact Craters Yet

NASA Spacecrafts at Mars Record Biggest Meteor Strikes, Impact Craters Yet

ByNews Polite

Two NASA spacecraft at Mars — one on the surface and the other in orbit — have recorded the biggest meteor strikes and impact craters yet. The high-speed barrages last year sent seismic waves rippling thousands of miles across Mars, the first ever detected near the surface of another planet,…

NASA Puts Pysche Mission on Hold, Blames Late Delivery of Navigation Software

NASA Puts Pysche Mission on Hold, Blames Late Delivery of Navigation Software

ByNews Polite

NASA put an asteroid mission on hold on Friday, blaming the late delivery of its own navigation software. The Psyche mission to a strange metal asteroid of the same name was supposed to launch this September or October. But the agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab was several months late delivering its…