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Archive for April, 2024

1st female ISS program manager looks ahead to new spaceships, space stations (exclusive)

April 14th, 2024 by

NASA’s Dana Weigel has held leadership positions at the agency for 20 years. Now leading the ISS program, she highlighted the outpost’s increasingly commercial focus.

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Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds

April 14th, 2024 by

The experimental fusion reactor sustained temperatures of 180 million degrees Fahrenheit for a record-breaking 48 seconds.

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This little robot can hop in zero-gravity to explore asteroids

April 14th, 2024 by

A three-legged robot named SpaceHopper could help combat challenges of exploring low-gravity environments, such as asteroids or moons.

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 106 — Space Potpourri!

April 13th, 2024 by

On Episode 106 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq take you on a tour of the coolest space places on Earth.

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Tiny black holes left over from the Big Bang may be prime dark matter suspects

April 13th, 2024 by

Don’t rule out primordial black holes as dark matter suspects just yet! Particle-sized black holes may resist evaporation, surviving long enough to account for the universe’s most mysterious stuff.

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‘You could feel the energy and wonder’: Despite clouds, totality wows crowds during solar eclipse in Syracuse

April 13th, 2024 by

The total solar eclipse on April 8 plunged Syracuse, New York’s Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology into darkness for 90 seconds, creating a wondrous and memorable totality.

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Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft starts testing ahead of moon mission with astronauts in 2025 (video)

April 13th, 2024 by

The Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft began testing on April 10 in an altitude chamber at NASA. The spacecraft will bring four astronauts around the moon no earlier than 2025.

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In a virtual reality universe, upcoming ‘JUICE’ mission flies by Jupiter’s moon Callisto

April 13th, 2024 by

To test its autonomous software, the JUICE mission team pretended to fly the spacecraft past Jupiter’s fourth moon, and passed the exam with flying colors.

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