Category: Space and Tech
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NASA Celebrates ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson With Building Naming Ceremony
On Friday, NASA celebrated the agency’s first African American female engineer, Mary W. Jackson, with a ceremony formally naming the agency’s headquarters building in Washington in her honor. Jackson began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) – the forerunner of NASA – in April 1951. From her initial role as a…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Gives High-Definition Panoramic View of Landing Site
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 21, after rotating its mast, or “head,” 360 degrees, allowing the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument to capture its first panorama after touching down on the Red Planet on Feb 18. It was the rover’s second panorama…
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NASA Takes Steps to Reduce Aviation Emissions, Invigorate US Economy
NASA is seeking proposals for ground and flight demonstrations of integrated megawatt-class powertrain systems for subsonic aircraft. The deadline for proposals for this solicitation is 5 p.m. EST April 20. The demonstrations will help rapidly mature and transition integrated Electrified Aircraft Propulsion (EAP) technologies and associated EAP vision systems for introduction into the global…
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NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Provides Front-Row Seat to Landing, First Audio Recording of Red Planet
New video from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface of Mars. A microphone on the rover also has provided the first audio recording of sounds…
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Touchdown! NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet
The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers). Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California at 3:55 p.m. EST (12:55 p.m. PST). Packed with groundbreaking…
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Farthest known object in Our Solar System
In January 2018, a faint object was detected in our solar system. The object is so far away from our sun astronomers gave it a nickname, Farfarout. It was detected using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and follow up observations were made with Gemini North telescope in Hawaii and the Magellan Telescopes in Chile…
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Hyundai Motor Group Introduces Advanced Humanoid Robot ‘DAL-e’ for Automated Customer Services
‘DAL-e’ is an AI-powered automated robot offering bespoke customer services at a HMG showroom with plans for adoption in diverse operating environments DAL-e boasts language processing, facial recognition and automated mobility capabilities for seamless wall-to-wall services under Covid-19 situation Pilot operation begins at a Hyundai Motor showroom in Seoul with a view to further optimization,…
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WATCH LIVE: SPACEX TRANSPORTER-1 MISSION
SpaceX is targeting Saturday, January 23 for launch of Transporter-1, SpaceX’s first dedicated SmallSat Rideshare Program mission, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The 42-minute launch window opens at 9:40 a.m. EST, or 14:40 UTC. Falcon 9’s first stage booster previously supported launch of Crew Dragon’s second demonstration mission, the…
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Hyundai Motor Company Teases First Image of IONIQ 5
Image previews fundamental shift in BEV design approach IONIQ 5 features signature ‘Parametric Pixels’ and eco-friendly elements to offer distinctive design experience Hyundai’s dedicated BEV lineup brand provides all-new enhanced customer experiences through advanced mobility solutions New series of teaser videos showcase IONIQ 5’s Vehicle-to-Load (V2L) technology that functions as a general power supply and…
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The 2021 Quadrantids Can Be Seen Tonight (video)
The winter sky activity continues into the new year with The Quadrantids Meteor Shower. While most meteor showers are usually named after the constellations that is their radiant point, not Quadrantids… The radiant point for this shower is the constellation Boötes…. The shower is named after the now obsolete constellation, Quadrans Muralis, which was…