NASA's New Horizons to continue exploring outer solar system
NASA has announced an updated plan to continue New Horizons' mission of exploration of the outer solar system.
Space Exploration
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Third launch attempt scheduled for NASA super pressure balloon
NASA is targeting Saturday, May 13 (Friday, May 12 in U.S. EDT) to conduct a second super pressure balloon (SPB) test flight launching from Wānaka Airport to further test and qualify the technology, which can offer cost ...
Planetary Sciences
May 12, 2023
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Australia wants a space industry. So why won't we pay for the basic research to drive it?
In the past few years, Australia has formed its own space agency and launched a defense "space command". Billions of dollars for defense, and hundreds of millions for civilian space, have been allocated from the public purse ...
Space Exploration
Mar 23, 2022
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Jakob van Zyl, key Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer, dies
Jakob van Zyl, an engineer who held crucial positions at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was involved in numerous space exploration missions over decades, has died. He was 63.
Space Exploration
Aug 28, 2020
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New NASA ebook reveals insights of Earth seen at night from space
Earth has many stories to tell, even in the dark of night. Earth at Night, NASA's new 200-page ebook, is now available online and includes more than 150 images of our planet in darkness as captured from space by Earth-observing ...
Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2019
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Video: 100 years of gravity
One hundred years ago this month, observations performed during a total solar eclipse proved for the first time the gravitational bending of light predicted by Albert Einstein's new theory of gravity, general relativity. ...
Astronomy
May 24, 2019
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Video: ESA's Earth Explorers surpassing expectations
Forging state-of-the-art space technologies, ESA's Earth Explorer satellite missions continue to surpass expectations with a range of interesting and complementary results that go beyond their original goals.
Earth Sciences
May 14, 2019
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Celebrate the end of Saturn mission with a free ebook – The Ringed Planet
Today, Nasa's Cassini spacecraft will point itself toward the surface of Saturn, and end with a crash its 13-year mission delving into the mysteries of the ringed planet's system.
Space Exploration
Sep 15, 2017
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Interns make archived NASA planetary science data more accessible
An internship program offered by NASA's Planetary Data System's Small Bodies Subnode hosted at the Planetary Science Institute is making archived scientific information more accessible to researchers and the public.
Social Sciences
May 17, 2016
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National labs put power behind NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto
After a journey of three billion miles lasting more than nine years, NASA's New Horizons mission finally flew by Pluto and its mysterious moons. The craft is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) that was ...
Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2015
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