9 April 2008
KinetX Questioned About Relativity Effects on MESSENGER Trajectory
Scientists from around the world have been questioning the KinetX Navigation Team about relativistic effects that were modeled in order to estimate the trajectory of the MESSENGER spacecraft during its historic first encounter with the planet Mercury...
23 January 2006
Liftoff! New Horizon is Pluto-bound
The first mission to distant planet Pluto is under way after the launch Jan. 19 of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. ...
20 January 2006
Valley Firm Steers Pluto Ship
Thursday's launch of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto was being monitored extra closely by a small company in Tempe called KinetX, Inc. In fact, the company will be watching the mission closely for the next nine-plus years as the spacecraft makes the 3 billion-mile journey ...
5 June 2005
New Horizons - The PI's Perspective: A Nation's Expedition to the Edge of the Solar System
Most people think of New Horizons as being from Maryland, since the spacecraft was designed, assembled and tested at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (APL) there, and once in flight, the spacecraft will be operated from APL. ...
23 May 2003
NASA picks Tempe company for Pluto mission
The planet Pluto, discovered 73 years ago by an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, now has another Arizona connection. KinetX Inc., a privately held Tempe company ...