As part of a new agreement, NASA has contracted with New York Tech, through the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences’ Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC), to have ETIC student employees build unique technology prototypes based on existing NASA patents and create professional marketing materials that NASA can use in efforts to commercialize the technology. According to […]
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on July 30, 2020. It is set to land on the Jezero Crater on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. While there, the Perseverance rover will seek signs of ancient microbial life and collect rock and soil samples for a possible return […]
NASA’s next Mars rover has a new name – Perseverance. Alexander Mather, a 13-year-old student from Virginia submitted the winning name. The seventh-grader submitted the winning entry to the agency’s “Name the Rover” essay contest, which received 28,000 entries from K-12 students from every U.S. state and territory. According to Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of […]
