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A momentous mission to put a commercial lander on the surface of the #moon is carrying samples of #DNA that are meant to preserve an archive of coded information - plus the personal genetic code of...
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Tonight's launch aims to send out America's first commercial #moon lander on United Launch Alliance's first #VulcanRocket, which is powered by Blue Origin's first BE-4 engines. Success not guaranteed....
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UPDATE: Successful first launch for United Launch Alliance's #VulcanRocket (and Blue Origin's BE-4 rocket engines) sends America's first commercial moon lander on a lunar odyssey - earning kudos from...
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Hours after a seemingly picture-perfect launch of its commercial lunar lander, #Astrobotic reported that a failure in the #Peregrine spacecraft's propulsion system was causing a "critical loss" of...
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#Astrobotic confirms that it won't be able to have its #Peregrine spacecraft make a soft landing on the #moon, due to an oxidizer tank leak that may have occurred because a valve failed to seal. The...
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Citing concerns about crew safety, #NASA says it'll take an extra year to prepare for the #Artemis 2 mission, which is now scheduled to send astronauts around the #moon in 2025; and for Artemis 3 in...
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Another reason to stick around until 2030 or so ... by then, it may be affordable to take a #supersonic cross-country trip. If so, today's rollout of the #X59 experimental jet by #NASA and...
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"What's the #multiverse?" Physicist Paul Halpern answers that question and explains why the far-out subject is so mesmerizing for scientists in the latest episode of the #FictionScience podcast, hosted...
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#PowerLight Technologies' first claim to fame was winning $900,000 in a #NASA contest for power-beaming systems, back in 2009. Now it's working on #laser systems that can beam power for earthly...
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First Mode is shifting its short-term focus from hydrogen fuel-cell systems for heavy trucks to less expensive diesel-electric hybrids. The company is reducing its U.S. workforce by about 20% to...
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#Gravitics, #PortalSpace Systems and #StarfishSpace will receive contracts worth up to $1.7 million each through the 2023 #SpaceWERX Tactically Responsive Space Challenge. Find out what they're up...
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Ten days after its launch, the #Astrobotic#Peregrine lunar lander has fallen back to Earth, ending a #moon mission that was doomed by a propellant leak....
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Even though mission managers have run up against a problem with power generation, today's successful touchdown of the #SLIM#moon lander marks one giant leap for #Japan's #space program....
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With an assist from #Westinghouse, Zeno Power is making steady progress on its plan to create a next-generation nuclear battery that could be used in places ranging from the bottom of the ocean to the...
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Scientists theorized that soda lakes were prime locations for the origin of life billions of years ago - and then they found a great real-world example just a few hundred miles north of their home...
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Now we know why Japan's #SLIM#moon lander hasn't been able to recharge its batteries: The spacecraft has been upended with its solar cells pointing in the wrong direction. But there's still hope....
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Rest easy, #Ingenuity ... After almost three years of aerial reconnaissance, the first flying vehicle to take off from #Mars has made its last landing. More extraterrestrial aircraft are in the works....
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#ZenoPower and the U.S. Department of Energy say they're working together to recycle radioactive material from Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a new type of strontium-based #nuclear battery. The deal...
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The disappearance of famed aviator #AmeliaEarhart in 1937 during her round-the-world attempt has inspired plenty of discoveries and dead ends over the decades. Will this lead to the end of the mystery,...
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A space-centric startup called #Quindar has raised $6 million to boost its cloud-hosted, AI-driven software platform for automated spacecraft management:...
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