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Archive for November 9th, 2023

NASA’s hunting for ‘strategic minerals’ in the desert with a modified U-2 spy plane. Here’s why

November 9th, 2023 by

NASA is flying the agency’s high-altitude ER-2 aircraft over the American Southwest in order to map deposits of minerals that are critical for electronics manufacturing.

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A satellite’s very tiny camera took a very blurry picture of Earth — and it’s perfect

November 9th, 2023 by

ESA’s TRISAT-R satellite has a camera that’s only about the size of a coin, yet it managed to capture a view of our entire world.

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September launch failure likely caused by ‘electrical arc,’ Rocket Lab says

November 9th, 2023 by

Rocket Lab has identified an unwanted ‘electrical arc’ as the likely cause of its September launch failure, though the company’s investigation continues.

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Artemis moon astronauts will need oxygen. NASA wants to extract it from lunar dust

November 9th, 2023 by

NASA wants to figure out how future moon-dwellers can produce, capture and store breathable oxygen from lunar soil.

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Should I buy a camera on Black Friday 2023?

November 9th, 2023 by

Is it worth waiting for Black Friday for a camera deal or should you buy one in the early Black Friday sales?

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SpaceX will launch Ireland’s 1st-ever satellite this month

November 9th, 2023 by

EIRSAT-1, a student-led gamma-ray astronomy cubesat, is due to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the end of November.

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James Webb Space Telescope reveals most distant Milky Way galaxy doppelganger

November 9th, 2023 by

Astronomers have found the most distant Milky Way look-alike we’ve seen the universe, challenging theoretical predictions of galaxy evolution.

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NASA’s exoplanet-hunting telescope spies 8 ‘super-Earths’

November 9th, 2023 by

Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have identified eight new super-Earths that orbit close to their host stars.

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