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How the XRISM spacecraft can study the X-ray universe with only 36 pixels

Submit on Friday, May 3rd, 2024 19:11

It may have fewer pixels than the screen of a 1989 Game Boy, but the Resolve device on the XRISM space telescope will broaden our view of the cosmos.

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Boeing drone dressed as ‘Star Wars’ X-wing lands at Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

Submit on Friday, May 3rd, 2024 18:11

A Boeing CV2 Cargo Air Vehicle dressed like a “Star Wars” X-wing fighter has been donated to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

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Boeing’s Starliner is ready to fly astronauts after years of delay. Here’s what took so long.

Submit on Friday, May 3rd, 2024 17:11

Boeing’s Starliner is finally ready to fly astronauts, after several years of delay. The capsule’s designers put the extra time to good use, NASA and Boeing representatives say.

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Astronauts on the moon could stay fit by running in a Wheel of Death

Submit on Friday, May 3rd, 2024 03:11

Scientists suggest lunar astronauts can stay fit by running sideways within a Wheel of Death.

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Curious asteroid Selam, spotted by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, is a cosmic toddler

Submit on Friday, May 3rd, 2024 03:11

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft serendipitously found a small moonlet orbiting the mission’s asteroid target Dinkinesh. Scientists named it Selam, and have now learned that Selam is a cosmic toddler.

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Watch live: China launching Chang’e 6 mission to far side of the moon early May 3 (video)

Submit on Friday, May 3rd, 2024 02:11

China’s Chang’e 6 sample return mission to the moon’s far side is scheduled to launch early Friday morning (May 3), and you can watch the action live.

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NASA’s Hubble Telescope is back in action — but its TESS exoplanet hunter may now be in trouble

Submit on Friday, May 3rd, 2024 00:11

Both the Hubble Telescope and TESS exoplanet hunter went into safe mode on April 23. Hubble is back on, but TESS remains off.

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Watch ULA assemble Atlas V rocket ahead of Boeing Starliner astronaut test flight (video)

Submit on Friday, May 3rd, 2024 00:11

United Launch Alliance’s new video highlight’s how the Atlas V launch vehicle for Boeing’s Starliner was stacked and mated to the spacecraft.

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