Space
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16.9KUnited Arab Emirates enters Mars race with plans for summer mission
If all goes as planned, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will not be the only spacecraft headed to the red planet this summer....
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15.3KSpaceX reusability may soon be in good company as Rocket Lab catches rocket with a helicopter
Rocket Lab, the world’s most prominent dedicated small satellite launcher, has made significant headway on plans to recover and reuse the booster...
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51.0KMeteorites give new insights into Martian water
Mars is a dry, desert world devoid of any life (that we know of). But once upon a time, that wasn’t the...
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29.0KNASA’s Mars helicopter is ready for launch
NASA’s next Mars rover, recently dubbed Perseverance, is currently undergoing launch preparations at its launch site, the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in...
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36.9KSpaceX, NASA enter final phase of training for imminent astronaut launch debut
SpaceX and NASA are working together to make sure they’re ready to start flying crews to the space station. Two astronauts, Doug...
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39.2KSpaceX Starlink wins permit to send internet to customers like you
SpaceX has been busy building its Starlink satellite constellation. To date, the company has launched more than 350 of the internet-beaming satellites...
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52.8KSpaceX talks results of ‘DarkSat’ coating aimed at reducing brightness of Starlink satellites
SpaceX successfully launched another batch of Starlink satellites into space on March 18, the fourth such launch this year. That brings the...
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15.7KFuture Mars astronauts’ diet will likely include space lettuce
Elon Musk wants to send a million people to Mars, and we would love to see that happen sooner rather than later....
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26.9KSpaceX, NASA ready for first crewed launch from US soil in almost a decade
On Wednesday, March 18th, NASA invited media to attend SpaceX’s highly anticipated upcoming Demo-2 mission confirming that SpaceX would be the first...
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35.2KEurope postpones Mars mission over ExoMars rover issue and Coronavirus
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced that its ExoMars rover would not fly this year. The mission, a collaboration with the Russian...
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77.1KNASA’s Curiosity rover discovers interesting Martian organics
NASA’s Curiosity rover touched down on the red planet, tasked with one major goal: to assess the habitability of Mars. The rover...
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17.4KNASA’s newest Mars rover gets christened with a ‘strong’ official name
NASA’s next Mars rover will depart Earth in July, bound for the red planet. After landing in Feb. of next year, the...
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22.8KNASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover captures epic view of Martian surface
NASA’s Curiosity rover is quite the photographer. As most Americans were busy chowing down on their favorite Thanksgiving dinner, the six-wheeled robotic explorer...
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27.9KDARPA’s $12 million launch challenge will go unanswered
Astra, a stealthy aerospace startup operated out of Alameda, CA, emerged from the shadows last month as it attempted to capture a...
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190.5K‘Marsquakes’ are a thing and they can tell us a lot about the red planet
NASA’s InSight lander has spent the last year listening to the deep rumble of the red planet’s interior. And its first batch...
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101.6KMars could have a Leap Day like Earth but way more complicated
February 29, “leap day”, is an oddity on the calendar that occurs every four years in an attempt to sync up the...
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55.7KNASA’s Mars Lander finds that the Red Planet’s magnetic field is really weird
Researchers studying the red planet uncovered a big surprise: the Martian magnetic field is about 10 times stronger than previously thought, and...
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19.1KNASA’s next mission could study one of these bizarre moons
Venus, Triton, or Io? Where would you send NASA’s newest mission? The space agency is in the midst of planning out its...
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111.8KMartian dust storms are driving away spacecraft-saving dust devils
Dust devils are pretty common on Mars – the Red Planet is, after all, a very dusty and windy place. What’s a...
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28.6KRocket Lab’s NASA Moon launch to kick off new era of ultra-cheap deep space exploration
Rocket Lab will soon take its tiny Electron rocket further than any similarly-sized vehicle before it, sending a NASA satellite to the...
