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7.2KVehiclesWatch NASA’s Dart Spacecraft Smash An Asteroid In World’s First Planetary Defense Mission
The incredible NASA DART mission finally took place and the video will keep you on the edge of your seat. In a...
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952FutureNASA’s Juno Spacecraft “Hears” Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
One of the highlights mission scientists shared in a briefing at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting consists of an audio track collected...
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4.9KFutureChina’s First Reusable Spacecraft Lands Safely After a Two-day Flight
The Chinese run news agency, Xinhua, announced that the first experimental reusable Chinese spacecraft successfully landed on September 6th after spending two days in...
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2.0KFutureNASA Planning to Fly Personnel on Suborbital Private Spacecraft
NASA’s new Flight Opportunities Program plans to expand beyond the scope of launching astronauts. The agency is currently working with commercial suborbital private...
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5.0KMiscUp To A Dozen Orion Spacecrafts Ordered by NASA for Moon Missions
The Orion is a spacecraft created to fly crewed missions to space and was designed by Lockheed Martin, an American global aerospace,...
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2.4KFutureHayabusa2 Spacecraft Successfully Lands on Ryugu Asteroid
Japan launched the Hayabusa2 spacecraft back in November 2014 for a mission that sent it in the path of the Ryugu asteroid...
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3.0KFutureSpaceX Wins NASA Contract For Neutron Star Research Spacecraft
SpaceX has won a $50.3 million contract with NASA that will cover “the launch service and other mission-related costs” for the launch...
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2.9KFutureNASA Will Send a Spacecraft To Fly Over Titan
Titan’s been the subject of a lot of debate and new discoveries lately. First, the Cassini spacecraft managed to capture the dust...
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2.0KVehiclesIsraeli SpaceIL Will Not Attempt A Second Spacecraft Moon Landing
A small robotic lander from Israeli non-profit SpaceIL attempted to touch down on the Moon back in April. The spacecraft, called Beresheet,...
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2.1KFutureESA Announces Spacecraft For First Jupiter System Mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace both took part in the International Paris Air Show this week. It was there that...
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3.2KFutureNASA Spacecraft Snaps New Bennu Asteroid Picture, Finds More Interesting Data
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security Regolith Explorer) spacecraft has left Earth on September 2016 for a rendez-vous with asteroid...
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4.7KFutureSpaceX Chosen by NASA To Slam A Spacecraft into An Asteroid
NASA has recently announced that SpaceX has won a contract for the space agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. The mission,...
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4.1KFutureFirst Woman in Space On A Commercial Spacecraft: Virgin Galactic’s Beth Moses
It was at the end of February when Virgin Galactic’s passenger spacecraft VSS Unity sped up towards the skies above the Mojave...
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2.6KGamingHoloLens AR Headsets Used By Lockheed Martin To Build Spacecraft
Aerospace organizations have traditionally kept to paper manuals to give their workers the necessary instructions and it’s only been in the recent...
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6.0KFutureCassini Spacecraft Captures Dust Storms On Titan For The First Time
The Cassini spacecraft has explored Saturn and its moons between 2004 and 2017 and the data from it now has revealed what...
