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A toaster-sized atomic clock in orbit around Earth is far more accurate than existing space clocks. It will be tested on a mission to Venus to see if it will aid autonomous spacecraft navigation on deep-space missions
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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission slammed into an asteroid moonlet Monday (Sept. 26) to test a planetary defense technique that could redirect a future largeasteroidon a collision course withEarth. TheJames Webb Space Telescopewas among the observatories watching, andfootage wil...
According to NASA, New Horizons is expected to enter interstellar space in the 2040s. New Horizons is the first of NASA's New Frontiers mission probes, which are medium-class missions designed to explore different destinations in the solar system. (Other selected missions include the Juno ...
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Europe and Airbus are playing a major role in this ambitious project, for the first time ever, NASA has entrusted a non-US company to build a mission-critical element for a US Human Spaceflight Mission. Under a European Space Agency (ESA) contract, Airbus is responsible for building the Eur...
Launch Roundup: SpaceX plans for five customer missions; Rocket Lab launch mission for Synspective December 16, 2024 The orbital launch manifest for the week of Dec. 16 through Dec. 22 has been… EuropeanInternationalOtherScience BepiColombo’s fifth flyby of Mercury reveals planet’s surface in...
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The event was too small for researchers to draw any conclusions about the planet's interior, which is one of the goals of the InSight mission. By studying what is below the Martian surface, researchers hope to learn more about the formation of other rocky planets like Earth, Mercury and Ven...