Category: Space and Tech
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NASA Plans for More SLS Rocket Boosters to Launch Artemis Moon Missions
NASA has taken the next steps toward building Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters to support as many as six additional flights
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UPDATE: STARLINK MISSION
SpaceX is standing down from today’s launch in order to allow additional time for pre-launch checkouts in advance of its tenth Starlink mission. Falcon 9 and its payloads, 57 Starlink satellites and 2 satellites from BlackSky, a Spaceflight customer, remain healthy. SpaceX teams are evaluating the next earliest launch opportunity and will announce a new target…
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NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins, Crewmates to Discuss Upcoming Spaceflight
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins will discuss her upcoming second mission to the International Space Station, along with cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, during a news conference at 4 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 1, from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The news conference will be broadcast live on…
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WATCH LIVE: STARLINK MISSION
SpaceX is targeting Friday, June 26 at 4:18 p.m. EDT, 20:18 UTC, for launch of its tenth Starlink mission, which will include 57 Starlink satellites and 2 satellites from BlackSky, a Spaceflight customer. Falcon 9 will lift off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Falcon 9’s first stage previously supported…
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NASA and HeroX Launch Lunar Loo Challenge to Find Way for Astronauts to Poop on the Moon
One Small Step for Man/Woman, One Lunar Poop for Humanity: NASA Seeks Innovative Lunar Toilet
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NASA, Partner Space Agencies Amass Global View of COVID-19 Impacts
In response to the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) have joined forces to use the collective scientific power of their Earth-observing satellite data to document planet-wide changes in the environment and human society. The wealth of these agencies’ collective information now is available at the…
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NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA. Jackson started her NASA career in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Jackson, a mathematician and aerospace…
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NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover – Countdown to Mars (Media Briefing)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Follow the road to launch for our next mission to the Red Planet, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. NASA leadership and a panel of scientists and engineers will preview the upcoming mission at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) on Wednesday, June 17. Briefing participants will be: – NASA…
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A Recipe for Cooling Atoms to Almost Absolute Zero
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA’s Cold Atom Lab aboard the International Space Station cools atoms down to a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, or the temperature at which atoms should stop moving entirely. Nowhere in the universe are there atoms that reach this temperature naturally. But how do scientists accomplish this feat? It’s…
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NASA Awards Artemis Contract for Gateway Crew Cabin
NASA has finalized the contract for the initial crew module of the agency’s Gateway lunar orbiting outpost. The Gateway is a key component of NASA’s long-term Artemis architecture and the HALO capability furthers our plans for human exploration at the Moon in preparation for future human missions to Mars These first two elements of the…