VICEflipped into All StoriesA Bizarre Spacecraft 'Flyby Anomaly' Has Been Baffling Scientists for 30 Yearsverified_publisherVICE - Becky FerreiraEarth and Jupiter appear to give some passing spacecraft a speed boost, a persistent anomaly so mysterious and unexplained that its very existence is controversial. It was December 8, 1990, and NASA’s Galileo spacecraft was hurtling toward Earth after more than a year in space. Galileo could not …
Taz flipped into Tech Stuff.Spacecraft design could get to Titan in only 2 years using a direct fusion drivephys.org - Andy TomaswickFusion power is the technology that is 30 years away, and always will be, according to skeptics, at least. Despite its difficult transition into a …
The Driveflipped into The DriveChina's Secret Spacecraft Looks To Have Landed At This Remote Base With A Massive Runwayverified_publisherThe Drive - Joseph Trevithick and Tyler RogowayThe craft, which is thought to be a spaceplane designed to land on a traditional runway, also appears to have launched a small payload into …
Popular Mechanicsflipped into Space and SpaceflightThe Radical Spacecraft That Could Send Humans to a Habitable Exoplanetverified_publisherPopular Mechanics - Caroline DelbertSolar One—part light sail, part laser system, part fusion reactor—can theoretically travel at 22 percent the speed of light. In a fascinating new paper, amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero suggests a combination of near-future technologies could carry people to the Alpha Centauri system, home to …
Paul Mooreflipped into Space, Our Future Home?In A Complete Fluke, A European Spacecraft Is About To Fly Past Venus – And Could Look For Signs Of LifeForbes - Jonathan O'CallaghanEarlier this week, scientists announced the discovery of phosphine on Venus, a potential signature of life. Now, in an amazing coincidence, a European and Japanese spacecraft is about to fly past the planet – and could confirm the discovery. On Monday, September 14, a team of scientists said they …
BGRflipped into ScienceNASA just sent a message to the decades-old Voyager 2 spacecraft - and got an answerbgr.com - Mike WehnerWhen NASA sends a spacecraft skyward it usually has a relatively short lifespan, all things considered. Maybe a few years, or perhaps even a decade …
aperçu énergieflipped into DiscoveriesFusion-Drive Spacecraft: Express Solar System Travel, If We Figure It Outverified_publisherfuturism.com - Dan RobitzskiThe concept thruster would make the trip to Titan over twice as fast as Cassini did. A team of scientists is furiously working away at a spacecraft …
Keithflipped into Notice: SpaceTake a breathtaking jaunt over Jupiter in NASA's soaring new Juno spacecraft flyby videoverified_publisherSYFY WIRE - Jeff SpryNASA's intrepid Juno spacecraft has been probing and documenting the Jovian system since it first arrived back in July of 2016, after a five-year …
Thrillistflipped into ThrillistA NASA Spacecraft Just Landed on an Asteroid & the Video Is Gorgeousthrillist.com - Dustin NelsonAn incredible view of an asteroid hundreds of millions of miles from Earth. NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has successfully touched down on the asteroid …
MIT Technology Reviewflipped into MIT Technology ReviewThis spacecraft is being readied for a one-way mission to deflect an asteroidMIT Technology Review - David W. BrownBy 1980, astronomers had determined the orbits of about 10,000 asteroids, including 51 “near-Earth” asteroids (along with 44 near-Earth comets). …
NBC Newsflipped into Top StoriesWatch the exact moment a NASA spacecraft 'tags' an asteroidNBC News - Denise ChowThe images show the OSIRIS-REx space probe thumping the asteroid's surface, throwing dust and rubble up into the camera's field of view. In the end, it was more of a punch than a high five. NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched down briefly on an asteroid Tuesday, gathering samples of the space rock …
AvatarLorenzoflipped into Our WorldWatch Live: A NASA Spacecraft Is About to Land on an Asteroid And Grab a Sampleverified_publisherScienceAlert - ELIZABETH CANTWELLImagine parallel parking a 15-passenger van into just two to three parking spaces surrounded by two-story boulders. On October 20, a University of …
MsCuttsScienceflipped into SpaceStoryboardThe CIA's Bold Kidnapping of a Soviet SpacecraftCurated byPopular ScienceThis heist that risked it all is among our favorite Cold War tales of space and science.
Mashableflipped into Mashable's Top StoriesWatch a NASA spacecraft touch down on asteroid Bennuverified_publisherMashable - Mark Kaufman"This is like sampling the original ingredients for making planets." Earlier in October, NASA successfully collected rocky samples from asteroid Bennu, a relatively small, well-preserved space rock some 200 million miles from Earth. On Friday, NASA released footage of the spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, …
Avatardorowiseflipped into spaceThe Hayabusa2 spacecraft is about to drop a chunk of asteroid in the Australian outbacktheconversation.com - Trevor IrelandBefore most people wake up this Sunday morning, a small space capsule will be dropped off to Earth, landing in Woomera, South Australia. The capsule …
Sonny Kūʻehuikapono Seto Myersflipped into Space LlamaAstronomers bounced a laser off a spacecraft whirling around the moonLive Science - Rafi LetzterThat's one precise laser shot. For the first time, scientists have successfully bounced a laser off a mirror that's attached to a spacecraft whirling …
macroeflipped into Eye OpenersNASA's Dawn spacecraft discovers a hidden ocean under Ceres' icy shellverified_publisherCNET - Jackson Ryan Aug. 10 2020Bright spots on Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, point to an underground ocean that remains active today.
Samflipped into Personal InterestsCould a Dragon spacecraft fly humans to the Moon? It’s complicatedverified_publisherArs Technica - Eric Berger"Do you really want to get to the Moon by 2024 or not?" On a recent Sunday afternoon, a black-and-white spacecraft raced through the atmosphere, …
AvatarValkorflipped into Out There: Space ExplorationNASA Successfully Landed a Spacecraft on an Asteroid for the First Time in Historyverified_publisherMy Modern Met - Jessica StewartThere's something historic to celebrate at NASA. For the first time in the agency's long history, a NASA spacecraft touched down on an asteroid. On October 20, OSIRIS-REx briefly landed on the Bennu asteroid, which is located 200 million miles from Earth. The quick touch-and-go (TAG) landing …
D Rocketusflipped into U.S.A. And World InfoNASA spacecraft stirs up a rocky blizzard on asteroid Bennu as it attempt to collect samplesverified_publisherCBS News - By William HarwoodPictures from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft show a sample collector pressed into the surface of the asteroid Bennu Tuesday stirred up a rocky blizzard …
Syd Barrettflipped into Blinded Me With Science NASA Spacecraft Spots a Massive, Ancient Planet With a Knack for Survival | KQEDkqed.org - Ben BurressA NASA satellite known as TESS may have discovered a massive extrasolar planet twice as old as any planet in our solar system. While astronomers need …
