In 2013, the European Space Agency (ESA) deployed this Gaia The space mission, an observer of the next pay generation that will spend the next five years collecting data on the position, distance and proper speed of the stars. The resulting data will be used to build today’s largest 3D …
Read More »SpaceX sends new dragon spacecraft to ISS full of science experiments
The new version of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft makes its first cargo flight into orbit following the liftoff above the Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday morning. Dragon 2 is heading to the International Space Station as part of the 21st launch under the Commercial Resilience Services Agreement between Elon Musk’s …
Read More »The Voyager mission finds a new type of electron explosion at the edge of our solar system
Although Voyager probes left our solar system years ago, as they travel through international space, they are still searching for cosmic rays exploding 23 billion kilometers (14 billion miles) away from our sun. A detailed analysis of recent data from both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 has now led to …
Read More »SpaceX upgrades space station cargo ship – launches first in new line of Spaceflight Now
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has been launched from Pad 39 on Sunday. Credit: Katie Derby / Spaceflight Now An upgraded version of SpaceX’s Dragon Cargo Freighter from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Sunday is packed with 2.2 tons of supplies and experiments, the first of at least nine re-flights to …
Read More »Here comes the vaccine. But will the Alabami people take it?
Perman Hardy said he lost more than ten family members in COVID-19 this year. The virus is suddenly and unexpectedly destroying its rural, black belt community. “It simply came to our notice then. I continue to die in my family, every month, every week. It’s raining, “he said of the …
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