In a hardscrabble crater on Mars, a tiny helicopter with a smartphone brain is now days away from trying the first powered flight to another world. NASA hopes that its spindly robotic helicopter, named ingenuity, will prove that thin flight is possible in dangerously thin Martian air and help us …
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Pure-play space stocks spread. Businesses and business models are new and seem like the stuff of science fiction. Navigating the space will not be easy. A framework, as well as some comparisons with existing businesses, can help investors. The “new space” can be divided into three parts. Launch Services is …
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China’s space probe Tianwen-1 will enter Mars orbit next month after traveling more than 400 million kilometers since its launch on July 23 last year. According to the China National Space Administration, the probe has been in space for 163 days and is currently 8.3m away from Mars. This flight …
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Axiom Space has announced that it is building an office fee park and manufacturing center at Houston Spaceport in Ellington Field. This development is an optimistic sign that, despite the drag on by Congress, a commercial replacement of the International Space Station (ISS) could well take place. As the ISS …
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TOKYO (AP) – It looks like small pieces of charcoal, but clay samples collected from a planet on Earth by a Japanese spacecraft and returned to Earth were hardly disappointing. The specimens described on Thursday by Japanese space officials are as large as 1 centimeter (0.4 inches) and are hard …
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