The Perseverance Mars rover is traveling through its initial checkout and activation, retrieving some 7,000 photos to date, releasing its seven-foot-long robot arm and taking a short test drive after a post-landing software upgrade, engineers said Friday. Robert Hogg, deputy mission manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, …
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The Cygnus cargo ship orbited a Northrop Grumman Entrance rocket on Saturday after a picture-perfect launch off the east coast of Virginia, carrying more than 8,000 pounds of supplies and equipment for the International Space Station. The rocket’s two Russian-built RD-181 first-stage engines were ignited at 12:36 p.m., throttle to …
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Text size It is the busiest week of the second quarter earnings season, with 171 S&P 500 companies slated to report. Things start slowly on Monday, before 3M, Advanced Micro Devices, eBay, McDonald’s, Pfizer, Starbucks and Visa reported on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Boeing, Facebook, General Electric, PayPal Holdings, Qualcomm and …
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California-based defense and security research nonprofit Aerospace Corp. will announce plans Wednesday for a $ 100 million research and development facility at the Colorado Springs airport that will employ 200 people. Aerospace employs 240 engineers, scientists, analysts, and cybersecurity specialists in a 78,000-square-foot building opened in 2007 at the airport’s …
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