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Before NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Soars On Titan, Model Is Tested On Earth
NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft lander is designed for flight on Saturn's moon Titan. See a "half-scale Dragonfly lander model" in tests at NASA Langley. Credit: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory M ...
Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong
Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include ...
Astronomers thought Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster was an asteroid. It points to broader problems tracking objects in deep space
Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.
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NASA satellites catch Earth's magnetic field making music
In fact, the discovery actually supports a key part of the theory about how chorus waves work. Using data from the Magnetospheric Multiscalar satellites, Liu and colleagues measured the distribution ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...