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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Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) – After beating bone cancer, Haley should have a piece of surprise cake in orbit on the first private flight of the Arsenox SpaceX. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital announced Monday that the 29-year-old physician assistant – a former patient hired last spring – will start …
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Example of an article titled Image: NASA SpaceX can be a lot of contradictory things, but you have to accept one thing: NASA has approved. So much so that it will use SpaceX as the launch company for the SPHREX program. The SPHEREx project is seriously great. Used for the …
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The 2021 fiscal was almost unnoticed in part of the ubiquitous spending bill recently passed by NASA, a provision that appears to free the upcoming Europa Clipper mission from the Space Launch System (SLS). According to Space News, the order that the Europa Clipper mission will be launched on the …
Read More »Imaginary image depicting the starship on top of its super heavy booster. Image: SpaceX Not content to keep things simple or straightforward, SpaceX plans to catch its next super heavy booster rocket at the launch launch tower, allowing it to reconnect an hour later. Don’t get confused Falcon heavy, Will …
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