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  17 hours ago

  Students Build Short-Lifespan Satellite With AA Batteries, $20 Arduino Board

  ExtremeTech - Adrianna Nine

  A close-up of SBUDNIC's Kapton polyimide drag sail. SBUDNIC isn’t just a laboratory plaything, either—it’s in orbit right now. In May 2022, SBUDNIC …

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  4 days ago

  New Horizons Team Provides Update on Iconic Spacecraft's Discoveries

  ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam

  NASA launched the New Horizons probe so long ago that Pluto was still considered the ninth planet. Following its 2015 encounter with Pluto, New …

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  MIT Develops Mix-and-Match Space Robots

  ExtremeTech - Adrianna Nine

  Humans may have gotten us up to space, but we owe many of our stellar successes to robots. From automating menial tasks and supervising repairs to …

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  4 days ago

  New Electric Airplane Takes Off Like Conventional Planes

  ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam

  The days of the internal combustion engine may be numbered as electric vehicles continue to proliferate, but airplanes and their polluting engines …

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  6 days ago

  NASA Wants $1 Billion to Build 'Tug' to Deorbit Space Station

  ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam

  NASA's proposed 2024 budget aims mostly to continue funding for the agency's current projects, but there's one substantial new expenditure on deck. …

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  6 days ago

  Newly Discovered Asteroid Could Strike Earth on Valentine's Day 2046

  ExtremeTech - Ryan Whitwam

  If you find yourself without a date on Valentine's Day 2046, that may not be the worst thing that happens to you that day. Observations of a newly …