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NASA tests new solar sail in low orbit. Could lead to more advanced space travel techniques!
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Space data centres: ‘A figment of the imagination’ but one that could make Europe a space leader
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Processing data from the James Webb Space Telescope • John Davies
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NASA newest solar sail system launched (2024-04-23)
If this tech interests you keep an eye out for June/July when they expect to deploy the sail. Rocket Lab’s Electron blasted off at 6:32 p.m. ET on April 23, successfully delivering both payloads...
If this tech interests you keep an eye out for June/July when they expect to deploy the sail.
Rocket Lab’s Electron blasted off at 6:32 p.m. ET on April 23, successfully delivering both payloads to low Earth orbit. - Gizmodo
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After a busy initial flight phase, which will last about two months and includes subsystems checkout, the microwave oven-sized CubeSat will deploy its reflective solar sail. The weeks-long test consists of a series of pointing maneuvers to demonstrate orbit raising and lowering, using only the pressure of sunlight acting on the sail. - NASA
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How Sweden is failing its spacetechs – it's not about the budget, says one founder who moved his company to Finland
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Spacesuits need a major upgrade for the next phase of exploration
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Flipped bit could mark the end of Voyager 1‘s interstellar mission
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Norwegian state-run telco Telenor announced plans to sell its satellite division to Space Norway, part of the country's space agency
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Japan to create ¥1 trillion fund to develop outer space industry
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NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft twelve billion miles away
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory-led team use Iceland as a stand-in for Venus to test radar technologies that will help uncover the planet's ground truth
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Lunar Codex: Digitised works of 30,000 artists to be archived on moon
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A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb – goodbye mirrors, hello diffractive lenses
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Harvard professor Avi Loeb has found fragments of a meteoroid that he believes could be from a spacecraft from another civilization or some technological gadget
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Dr. Angela Collier, theoretical physicist, discusses aliens, crackpots, and Avi Loeb
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Apollo 12 source code: Looking at the original flown code printout, and the 1202 error fix
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Assessment of the technological viability of photoelectrochemical devices for oxygen and fuel production on Moon and Mars
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Would building a Dyson sphere be worth it? We ran the numbers.
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A software glitch forced the Webb Space Telescope into safe mode. The $10 billion observatory didn’t collect many images in December, due to a now-resolved software issue.
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DARPA moving forward with nuclear thermal engine design
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Webb telescope successfully unfurls its tennis court-size sunshield in space
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NASA’s latest Mars rover has the same processor as an iMac from 1998
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In Iceland, testing the drones that could be the future of Mars exploration
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Six Boeing-supplied 20kW solar arrays to augment existing International Space Station power system
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The steampunk rover concept that could help explore Venus
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SpaceX reveals monthly cost of Starlink internet in its "Better Than Nothing Beta"
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NASA just sent a new $23 million space toilet to the International Space Station
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The operating systems that keep spacecraft running
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What is a Dyson sphere?
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DirecTV fears explosion risk from satellite with damaged battery
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How to escape a supernova: Stellar engines
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Apple has secret team working on satellites to beam data to devices
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What makes NASA's Artemis suit the best space suit yet?
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A report by NASA's inspector general paints a damning picture of the space agency's relationship with Boeing, saying NASA overpaid Boeing by hundreds of millions of dollars
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Space-grade CPUs: How do you send more computing power into space?
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The world’s largest 3D metal printer is churning out rockets
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Making an exact, working replica of the Apollo 11 moon camera
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Software woven into wire: Core rope and the Apollo Guidance Computer
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Apollo’s brain: The computer that guided man to the Moon
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NASA's flagship James Webb Space Telescope, will run Javascript for instrumentation control using a defunct & proprietary interpreter with a list of errata last updated in 2003
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Chinese rocket company Linkspace successfully tests hovering a rocket
@linkspace_china: LinkSpace did a very successful test on rocket recycling on March 27, 2019. It will support us to open the next PLAN. Thank you Dr. @robert_zubrin for being here to witness this exciting milestone. Later, NewLine Baby(RLV-T5) will undergo higher flight tests in the future. https://t.co/9aIpLopstW
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Appendix F: Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle
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Why getting back to the moon is so hard
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