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Ars Technica’s Stephen Clark reports: For those who follow NASA’s human spaceflight program, a burning question for the last year-and-a-half has been what caused the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield to crack and chip away during atmospheric reentry on th… Continue reading NASA Is Treating Orion’s Heat Shield Problems As a Secret
“After safely splashing down on Earth as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission Friday, a NASA astronaut experienced a medical issue,” NASA reported Friday.
But today there’s an update:
After an overnight stay at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola in Fl… Continue reading NASA Astronaut in Good Health After Experiencing ‘Medical Issue’ After SpaceX Splashdown
NASA has revealed a full-scale prototype for six telescopes designed to detect gravitational waves. Phys.Org reports: The LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission is led by ESA (European Space Agency) in partnership with NASA to detect gravita… Continue reading NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope For Gravitational Wave Observatory
In one of the strangest partnerships we’ve come across, Axiom Space and Prada (yes, that Prada) have teamed up to produce the space suits NASA astronauts will wear when they return to the Moon as part of the space agency’s Artemis program.Continue Read… Continue reading NASA’s Moon suit gets runway treatment in Prada partnership
For the first time in 50 years, humans will walk on the moon again. Currently planned for as soon as 2026, the Artemis III mission “will be one of the most complex undertakings of engineering and human ingenuity in the history of deep space exploration… Continue reading NASA’s Artemis Mission To Moon Unveils New Spacesuit Designed By Prada
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares an op-ed written by Michael R. Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, UN Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions, and chair of the Defense Innovation … Continue reading ‘NASA’s $100 Billion Moon Mission Is Going Nowhere’
High-resolution images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot have revealed that it’s not as stable as we thought. Instead, the Spot is squeezing in and out, with NASA describing it as “jiggling like a bowl of gelatin.”Continue… Continue reading Jupiter’s Great Red Spot unstable, ‘jiggling like a bowl of gelatin’
Here’s the thing about radio signals. There is wild and interesting stuff just getting beamed around all over the place. Phrased another way, there are beautiful signals everywhere for those …read more Continue reading Supercon 2023: Receiving Microwave Signals from Deep-Space Probes
Data from NASA’s Curiosity rover collected on Mars is shedding new light on how the Red Planet became uninhabitable in the distant past due to a changing climate that caused the surface water to evaporate or be locked away as ice.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Curiosity rover sheds new light on how Mars became uninhabitable
ESA’s Hera spacecraft designed to assess NASA’s experiment to deflect an asteroid has launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. At 14:52 GMT, the robotic probe lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket to begin its three-year mission.Continue … Continue reading Watch: Hera asteroid defense mission lifts off