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    Crewless Starliner lands safely

    Crewless Starliner lands safely Boeing Co.’s glitchy space capsule returned to Earth without a crew, after a test flight that was marked by technical problems and delays. The CST-100 Starliner departed the International Space Station at 6:04 p.m. Friday New York time and landed in White Sands...
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    Blue Origin Mars mission delayed

    Blue Origin Mars mission delayed A Blue Origin LLC mission to send satellites to Mars will be delayed until at least early 2025 over concerns about whether the Jeff Bezos-backed firm would be ready to launch as planned this year. NASA said Friday that it would forgo an October flight “to avoid...
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    Goodbye little Mars helicopter

    Goodbye little Mars helicopter A 1.8kg Nasa helicopter that ran an unprecedented six dozen flights on Mars will fly no more, the US space agency said Thursday. During Ingenuity’s most recent flight, on Jan. 18, one of the helicopter’s blades might have struck the ground while coming in for...
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    Nasa says it has no evidence of drug use at SpaceX

    Nasa says it has no evidence of drug use at SpaceX Elon Musk’s SpaceX isn’t in violation of workplace rules on alcohol and drugs that could jeopardise the rocket launch and satellite service provider’s government contracts as far as Nasa is aware, according to the space agency. “The agency...
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    NASA launches massive spacecraft to asteroid using SpaceX

    NASA launches massive spacecraft to asteroid using SpaceX NASA’s massive Psyche spacecraft launched Friday atop SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket on an unprecedented journey to probe a metal-rich asteroid for insight into Earth’s own rocky core. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, one of the world’s most...
  7. Vorastra

    Telescope video shows part of the sun breaking off and forming a vortex, making scientists scratch their heads

    https://www.businessinsider.com/sun-polar-vortex-video-from-solar-plasma-break-2023-2?amp
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    Orion spacecraft completes flyby of Moon in preparation for orbit

    Orion spacecraft completes flyby of Moon in preparation for orbit Nasa’s new Orion crew capsule came within 81 miles of the lunar surface Monday. Its path also took the spacecraft over the Apollo 11 landing site, Tranquility Base, where astronauts first landed on the Moon in 1969. The flyby...
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    SLS rocket finally launches on Moon mission

    SLS rocket finally launches on Moon mission Nasa launched its most powerful rocket in 50 years early Wednesday, sending an uncrewed capsule skyward on a 25-day mission to orbit the Moon and return safely to Earth. The agency’s Space Launch System rocket, with an Orion capsule perched atop it...
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    Nasa and Sansa break ground on comms facility to be used in Moon missions

    Nasa and Sansa break ground on comms facility to be used in Moon missions The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) on Tuesday signed a letter of intent to formalise a space exploration partnership. The signing was followed by a...
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    Mission success — Dart spacecraft knocked asteroid off trajectory

    Mission success — Dart spacecraft knocked asteroid off trajectory Nasa says a mission to nudge a distant asteroid off course succeeded, showcasing a potential new method for saving Earth from dangerous space rocks that astronomers might identify in the future. A Nasa spacecraft called Dart...
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    SpaceX launches 6th crewed mission

    SpaceX launches 6th crewed mission SpaceX launched a crew of four on a Nasa mission to the International Space Station, including a Russian cosmonaut and the first Native American woman to travel to space. The blast-off, scheduled for noon local time Wednesday from Kennedy Space Center in...
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    Nasa and SpaceX wants to bump Hubble Space Telescope into higher orbit

    Nasa and SpaceX wants to bump Hubble Space Telescope into higher orbit Nasa said Thursday that it’s working with SpaceX to study using the company’s Dragon spacecraft to boost the space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit. Nasa and SpaceX signed a Space Act Agreement to look...
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    Nasa slams Dart spacecraft into asteroid

    Nasa slams Dart spacecraft into asteroid A Nasa spacecraft successfully crashed into an asteroid approximately 6.8 million miles (10.9 million kilometres) from Earth in a test to determine if the impact can nudge the space rock slightly off course. Nasa launched its Dart spacecraft in November...
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    Troubled SLS programme suffers another big setback

    Troubled SLS programme suffers another big setback Nasa’s latest rocket demonstrated one of the biggest and most enduring frustrations that comes with launching new and highly complicated space technology: waiting. Though expectations were high for Monday’s scheduled first launch of Nasa’s new...
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    Astronauts Forced to Take Shelter as Debris Cloud Threatens Space Station

    https://gizmodo.com/astronauts-forced-to-take-shelter-as-debris-cloud-threa-1848057874
  17. Jan

    5 important things happening in tech today - 16 June 2021

    5 important things happening in the tech world today Samsung has developed a chip that will bring flagship-like performance to more mid-range phones and the company said it will start appearing in smartphones from this month, June 2021. 25% of all graphics cards shipped in Q1 2021 went to...
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    Watch - Nasa performs the first helicopter flight on Mars

    Watch - Nasa performs the first helicopter flight on Mars Nasa successfully performed the first-ever powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet on Monday. The flight – which lasted for about 40 seconds – was carried out by the ultralight solar-powered helicopter Ingenuity on...
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    NASA honours Japie van Zyl by renaming Mars flight location after him

    NASA honours Japie van Zyl by renaming Mars flight location after him NASA has honoured Stellenbosch University alumnus and former solar system exploration director Japie van Zyl by naming the location of its upcoming Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's flight after him. Van Zyl was born in Outjo...
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    NASA to look into SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket engine failure

    NASA to look into SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket engine failure NASA will review an engine failure last month that caused Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s Falcon 9 rocket booster to land in the sea after a satellite launch, as the U.S. agency prepares for the next crewed flight to the...
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    First video released of Perseverance rover landing on Mars

    First video released of Perseverance rover landing on Mars The successful Mars landing of the rover Perseverance on Feb. 18 provides the U.S. with the chance to accomplish several firsts: a drone helicopter flight on another planet, access to an ancient river delta that may yield microbial...
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