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NASA Repairs the Most Distant Human Spacecraft in Existence from 15 Billion Miles Away
NASA Repairs the Most Distant Human Spacecraft in Existence from 15 Billion Miles Away

17 Jun 2024, 08:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA said that for the first time in months the Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back full science data from 15 billion miles away

 
Webb Telescope Hunting for Living Aliens on Other Planets, Galaxy Doesn't Want Them Found
Webb Telescope Hunting for Living Aliens on Other Planets, Galaxy Doesn't Want Them Found

11 Jun 2024, 16:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Despite the James Webb telescope being the most powerful ever built, it still needs years and a lot of help to prove life exists elsewhere

 
Phase-Change Materials Can Give Never-Ending Power to Subsea Robots, Sensors, and More
Phase-Change Materials Can Give Never-Ending Power to Subsea Robots, Sensors, and More

10 Jun 2024, 12:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA and a company called Seatrec are working on a power generating method that harnesses the ocean's temperature changes

 
Astronauts in Spacesuits Touch the SpaceX Starship Landing System for the First Time
Astronauts in Spacesuits Touch the SpaceX Starship Landing System for the First Time

6 Jun 2024, 12:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA took two astronauts to California to play with a prototype of the SpaceX Human Landing System (HLS) that will put humans on the surface of the Moon

 
Real-Life Astronauts Test the Habitation Module of Humanity's First Distant Space Station
Real-Life Astronauts Test the Habitation Module of Humanity's First Distant Space Station

4 Jun 2024, 11:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency (ESA) completed the first series of tests of its Gateway Lunar International Habitat (Lunar I-Hab)

 
NASA Satellite Swarm Does Things No Other Satellite Swarm Has Done Before, More to Come
NASA Satellite Swarm Does Things No Other Satellite Swarm Has Done Before, More to Come

3 Jun 2024, 14:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA said the primary missions of the Starling satellite swarm have been met ten months after the mission was launched, further tests on the horizon.

 
NASA Spacecraft Survives Much Closer Encounter With the Sun Than It Was Designed To
NASA Spacecraft Survives Much Closer Encounter With the Sun Than It Was Designed To

30 May 2024, 10:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA released an update on the status of the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft after its close encounter with the Sun, says all works as intended

 
Badass Yarns and High-Tech Glue Keep America's Moon Spacecraft From Burning on Re-Entry
Badass Yarns and High-Tech Glue Keep America's Moon Spacecraft From Burning on Re-Entry

28 May 2024, 11:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA provided us with more details on the brand new material used for part of the Orion heat protection system

 
Spacecraft With Brilliant Blue Glow Trail Passes Mars, Moves Further Into Space
Spacecraft With Brilliant Blue Glow Trail Passes Mars, Moves Further Into Space

28 May 2024, 08:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says the xenon ion thrusters of the Psyche spacecraft are working as intended, namesake target asteroid to be reached in 2029

 
Brand New American Spaceplane Enters Final Stretch to Launch
Brand New American Spaceplane Enters Final Stretch to Launch

23 May 2024, 11:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Sierra Space and NASA have begun the final testing procedures on the Dream Chaser spaceplane called Tenacity ahead of launch later this year..

 
NASA to Start Building the World's First Mild Hybrid-Electric Engine for Airplanes
NASA to Start Building the World's First Mild Hybrid-Electric Engine for Airplanes

21 May 2024, 09:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced it is getting ready to start putting together a new kind of aircraft engine aimed at cutting fuel needs by ten percent

 
America to Fly First Plane With No Forward-Facing Windows Since the Spirit of St. Louis
America to Fly First Plane With No Forward-Facing Windows Since the Spirit of St. Louis

20 May 2024, 14:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The X-59 supersonic experimental aircraft will have no forward-facing windows, just like the 1920s Spirit of St. Louis, and it'll fly supersonic

 
NASA Starts Walking the Long Paper Path That'll Put Its X-59 Supersonic Plane in the Air
NASA Starts Walking the Long Paper Path That'll Put Its X-59 Supersonic Plane in the Air

17 May 2024, 10:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced it bureaucratic ended the first step in clearing the plane for flight, a few more on the horizon

 
Tiny Moon Amalthea Photobombs NASA Juno Probe Photo of Jupiter, Looks Super Cute
Tiny Moon Amalthea Photobombs NASA Juno Probe Photo of Jupiter, Looks Super Cute

16 May 2024, 23:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For some, it's the first time they've ever seen, let alone heard of this little moon barely the size of a small US state in surface area.

 
Artemis Accords Finishes Drag Race to 40 Signatories, Welcomes Lithuania
Artemis Accords Finishes Drag Race to 40 Signatories, Welcomes Lithuania

16 May 2024, 00:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Owing to its close proximity to global leaders in the aerospace sector in Sweden and Germany, Lithuania has seen a spike in the number of jobs in aerospace.

 
NASA Invents a New Super Alloy, Gives Green Light to American Companies to Make It
NASA Invents a New Super Alloy, Gives Green Light to American Companies to Make It

13 May 2024, 14:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced it licensed its 3D-printed alloy called GRX-810 to four American companies that'll make it for widespread use

 
Boeing Starliner Fails to Launch (Again), This Time Don't Blame Boeing
Boeing Starliner Fails to Launch (Again), This Time Don't Blame Boeing

7 May 2024, 07:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An issue with the United Launch Alliance Atlas V that was supposed to carry the Starliner spaceship to the ISS caused the mission to be scrubbed

 
NASA Shows a Jet Engine Small Enough to Fit on a Kitchen Table
NASA Shows a Jet Engine Small Enough to Fit on a Kitchen Table

30 Apr 2024, 09:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA shares a number of details on the small-scale jet engine test bed it calls DGEN380 Aero-Propulsion Research Turbofan

 
NASA Catches Laser Beam From a Spaceship Millions of Miles Away, Finds a Cat Video Inside
NASA Catches Laser Beam From a Spaceship Millions of Miles Away, Finds a Cat Video Inside

29 Apr 2024, 11:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA announced a new test of the Psyche Deep Space Optical Communications that proved 25 Mbps data transfer speeds from 150 million miles

 
People Pretending to Live on Mars Have Been Isolated for 300+ Days, Gunning for a Year
People Pretending to Live on Mars Have Been Isolated for 300+ Days, Gunning for a Year

29 Apr 2024, 08:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA is slowly moving to complete the first year-long Mars crew experiment in the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog facility