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Archive for September 13th, 2022

Mars rover and drone prototypes brave strong Iceland winds in analog test

September 13th, 2022 by

Robots working together will assist astronauts on rocky worlds like the moon and Mars, if Earth tests like this show it’s possible.

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NASA probe ready to slam into an asteroid this month in landmark planetary defense test

September 13th, 2022 by

On Sept. 26, DART will slam headfirst into a small asteroid, the rare case when a spacecraft’s destruction is the desired outcome.

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Watch SpaceX launch 54 Starlink satellites from Florida Tuesday night

September 13th, 2022 by

SpaceX will send another big batch of Starlink satellites to orbit on Tuesday night (Sept. 13) — and bring the first stage of a rocket back to Earth.

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Launch of Artemis 1 moon rocket delayed to Sept. 27 at the earliest

September 13th, 2022 by

Sept. 23 is no longer an option for the launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission. The agency is now targeting Sept. 27, with a possible backup date of Oct. 2.

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Dwarf planet collision may have sent strange ultra-hard diamonds to Earth

September 13th, 2022 by

Strange hexagonal diamonds may have been jettisoned into space when a dwarf planet collided with a large asteroid around 4.5 billion years ago.

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Failure of Blue Origin’s New Shepard a reminder that spaceflight is still hard

September 13th, 2022 by

In-flight failures are always startling, given the dramatic visuals that accompany them. But the possibility of failure should always be in the back of our minds.

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‘We choose to go to the moon…’ again: NASA marks 60th anniversary of JFK speech

September 13th, 2022 by

As NASA again prepares to set sail “on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure” ever embarked, the agency’s leaders returned to where JFK stated, “We choose to go to the moon.”

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New moon mineral discovered in China’s lunar samples

September 13th, 2022 by

Chinese scientists have found a new lunar mineral in the form of a crystal lurking inside samples collected from the moon in 2020.

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