All posts tagged "space"
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3.4KFutureMars Orbiter Spots The Opportunity Rover After Storm But It’s Still Radio Silent
A few months ago, NASA’s Opportunity rover went silent as a Martian storm raged across the planet and left the Opportunity unable...
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2.0KFutureNASA Tests Small Satellite That Can Track Global Storms
The RainCube (Radar in a CubeSat) is NASA’s newest satellite. It’s as big as a shoebox and it can basically fit in...
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2.8K1FutureJapan Takes First Step Towards Making The Space Elevator A Reality
The Japanese researchers from the Shizuoka University had initially planned to launch the two ultra-small cubic satellites that mark the first stage...
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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...
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11.0KFutureA World First: Two Japanese Rovers Land Successfully On Moving Asteroid
Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 was launched from Earth back in November 2014, backpacking on a H-IIA rocket, in an attempt to arrive in the...
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6.0KFutureNASA Receives First Light Image From the Parker Solar Probe
The Parker Solar Probe was sent out into space back in August , beginning its seven-year mission that will ‘touch the Sun’. Now...
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2.7KFutureJapanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa To Become SpaceX’s First Lunar Tourist
A few days ago, Elon Musk posted a Twitter message stating that SpaceX had signed up their very first passenger to fly...
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3.1KMiscPlanet-Hunter TESS Shares First Image Captured Since Launch
The TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) is following in Kepler’s footsteps and reminds us once again how small and insignificant we really...
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2.1KMiscIn The Near Future, We Might Be Able To Apply For Space Traffic Controller Jobs
The Sputnik satellite was launched into space on October 4th, 1957, marking not only our first step into the Cosmos, but also...
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3.9KFutureJapanese Supercomputer ATERUI II Puts The Cosmos At Our Fingertips
Probably and astronomer’s greatest wish would be to actually hold a planet between their hands and place it gently under a microscope...
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2.6KFutureHard To Kill: Kepler Telescope Awakens Again As It Nears 20th Mission
[adrotate group=”12″] Kepler has once again been awakened, after having been put on sleep mode and it seems like the resilient...
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5.2KFutureFrom Tanegashima Space Center to ISS: Japan to Begin Testing Space Elevator
[adrotate group=”12″] Going into space via rocket is already a difficult thing as it is – not only does it involve...
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7.9KFutureFirst Indian Manned Space Mission Will Happen By 2022
Today marks the 72nd Independence Day for India and the country is already looking ahead to its 75th one after a very...
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4.4KVehiclesSpaceX Showcases Dragon Spacecraft Controls For The Very First Time
On Monday, Space X invited the press to its factory in Hawthorne, California for an astronaut event, marking the first time SpaceX...
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11.0KFutureNASA New Horizons Encounters Hydrogen Wall
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft continues to speed away from the Sun and it is, at this moment, 6.4 billion km away from...
