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Archive for March 23rd, 2021

‘We stand with you,’ NASA’s Perseverance rover team tells people of Boulder after mass shooting

March 23rd, 2021 by

A leader at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory paid tribute to Boulder, Colorado Tuesday (March 23) in the hours after 10 people were killed in a mass shooting in the city.

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See the Space Force’s 1st small rocket launch of 2021 in these photos

March 23rd, 2021 by

The Space Force launched its first small rocket of 2021 this month in an experiment that dumped water vapor into Earth’s ionosphere.

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SpaceX will launch a new Starlink fleet before sunrise Wednesday. Here’s how to watch.

March 23rd, 2021 by

SpaceX will launch its next fleet of Starlink satellites into orbit for the company’s broadband megaconstellation on Wednesday (March 24).

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Watch live @ 4:28 am ET: SpaceX launching 60 Starlink satellites

March 23rd, 2021 by

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 60 satellites for the company’s Starlink satellite internet constellation Wednesday (March 24) at 4:28 a.m. EDT (0828 GMT). Watch it live!

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NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity could fly for 1st time on April 8

March 23rd, 2021 by

We may be just over two weeks away from the first powered flight by an aircraft on an alien world.

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An asteroid the size of a semi-truck and two other space rocks are flying by Earth today

March 23rd, 2021 by

Three asteroids are making close approaches to our planet today (March 23), but don’t worry; the small rocks pose no threat as they drift by Earth, passing closer than the average distance between our planet and the moon.

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Astronauts on Mars missions could suffer cognitive and emotional problems, new research suggests

March 23rd, 2021 by

Deep space missions to Mars will be much more physically and mentally demanding than the journeys we’ve made so far during 60 years of human space exploration.

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Scientists unlock the ‘Cosmos’ on the Antikythera Mechanism, the world’s first computer

March 23rd, 2021 by

Scientists may have finally made a complete digital model for the Cosmos panel of a 2,000-year-old mechanical device called the Antikythera mechanism that’s believed to be the world’s first computer.

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