Turn on Boeing staff in Mississippi have just fired the central stage of the super-heavy-duty Space Launch System (SLS) rocket being built for NASA, which is destined to launch massive amounts of hardware to be used in upcoming Artemis missions to the Moon, and possibly Mars after that. “It is …
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Measurements from NASA’s Transit Exoplanet Study Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the strange environment of KELT-9b, one of the hottest known planets. “The rarity factor is high with KELT-9b,” said John Ahlers, an astronomer at the Universities Space Research Association in Columbia, Maryland, and …
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NASA’s plans to explore the ice moons of the Solar System are getting more details as the space agency is developing a robot that would use steam to feed in deep space. In a post on its website, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory notes that researchers are developing a soccer-ball-sized robot …
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With NASA slated to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa sometime in the next decade, researchers are increasingly confident that the ocean on the celestial satellite “might be habitable.” Speaking at the Goldschmidt 2020 Conference earlier this month, NASA researchers said they have developed a model that shows that Europe, the sixth …
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By: Desktop Trends | New delhi | Updated: June 29, 2020 1:30:49 pm The lost item does not pose a risk to spacewalk or the ISS. (Image credit: nasa.gov) An astronaut joined the millions of debris orbiting the Earth when he lost a small mirror attached to his spacesuit during …
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