by dankeelan | Nov 9, 2023 | Space
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter just made its 65th and 66th Red Planet flights, two short hops that helped prep the chopper for a coming stretch in which it will be cut off from ground control. Flight 65 occurred on Nov. 2. The 4-pound (1.8...
by dankeelan | Nov 2, 2023 | Space
Two NASA astronauts completed their first spacewalk together outside of the International Space Station, the fourth all-female EVA (extravehicular activity) in history. Expedition 70 crewmates Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara replaced a bearing to...
by dankeelan | Oct 26, 2023 | Safety, Space
SpaceX has asked the u.s. federal aviation administration (faa) to correct a report warning that components from reentering starlink constellation satellites could injure or even kill people on the ground. The FAA, a regulatory body that licenses the launch...
by dankeelan | Oct 19, 2023 | Satellites, Space
Scientists have long thought that the burning up of space junk in Earth’s atmosphere creates air pollution that can affect the planet’s climate. Now, for the first time, they’ve managed to detect the presence of these pollutants in the air high above...
by dankeelan | Oct 19, 2023 | Space
SpaceX intends to boost its unprecedented launch cadence to dizzying new heights. Elon Musk’s company has already launched 74 orbital missions in 2023, more than any private outfit ever has in a single year. (The previous record was 61, set by SpaceX in 2022.)...
by dankeelan | Oct 11, 2023 | Space
Close to seven decades after the launch of humanity’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik, Earth is surrounded by millions of pieces of space junk that could collide and cause significant damage to satellites, but most of them are too small to be...
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