All posts tagged "space"
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3.0KFutureChina Tests Life on Mars With a Camp in the Desert
China has built a camp in the arid landscape of the Qinghai province, near the peak of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, for the...
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4.2KFutureSpaceX’s Dragon Crew Aces ISS Docking Test
You might remember that, in February, NASA green-lit SpaceX’s Crew Dragon test flights. Now SpaceX has performed the very first test with...
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2.8KMiscNASA Clears SpaceX’s Crew Dragon For March Test Flight
NASA managers held a review on Friday where the flight readiness of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon commercial ferry ship...
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3.2KFutureChina Plans to Build Its Own Solar Farm in Space
Solar power has been gaining more and more traction in the past few years and, while we’re making progress, we could be...
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2.1KFutureOpportunity Says Its Last Goodbye After 15-year Long Mars Mission
Last year, NASA lost contact with the Opportunity rover, following a dust storm that roamed across the Martian landscape. The team back on...
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2.1KMiscTrump Will Sign “American AI Initiative” Order Today
The Trump administration hasn’t stayed quiet on space operations control, hence the Space Force initiative, but it did not take a stance...
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16.9KFutureChinese Satellite Captures Photograph of The Earth From Behind The Moon
Just last month, China landed its Chang’e 4 lunar probe on the far side of the Moon, the ‘dark side’ that never...
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2.6KFutureSpaceX Fires Up Mars Rocket Engine Successfully
SpaceX has been working hard on the Raptor rocket engine and, this weekend, while everyone was busy watching the Super Bowl, the...
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2.7KMiscSpaceX Possibly Weeks Away From Crew Dragon Launch
SpaceX fired up Crew Dragon’s rocket engines for a short time on Thursday, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rocket’s...
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2.5KFutureChina’s Chang’e 4 Has Successfully Landed on the Far Side of the Moon
It’s only been a day since we got news from NASA about New Horizon’s successful Ultima Thule flyby and we already have...
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5.0KFutureParker Solar Probe Sends First Photo Of Its Close Encounter With the Sun
The Parker Solar Probe launched back in August and, since then, it has broken the record for the fastest space probe and...
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3.0KVehiclesVirgin Galactic Will Attempt to Reach Space for the First Time
Back in 2008, Virgin Galactic said that it will be offering sub-orbital tourist flights within 18 months but has, since then, been...
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2.6KFutureLet’s Listen to InSight’s Playlist: The Sounds of Mars
The InSight Lander touched Martian soil just a month ago and it has already started working diligently towards it smission – it...
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5.3KFutureNASA Announces That Voyager 2 Has Entered Interstellar Space
NASA has announced that, for the second time in history, an object made by humans has gone beyond the heliosphere – the...
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2.4KFutureChina Launches Lunar Probe Chang’e-4
China launched the Chang’e-4 mission on December 7th and successfully managed to send the spacecraft into the lunar transfer orbit. The probe...
