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Rocket Lab launches 200th satellite to orbit (photos, video) (Image Credit: Space.com) Rocket Lab launched five “Internet of Things” (IoT) satellites to orbit on Sunday night (Nov. 24), continuing to build out a constellation for the French company Kinéis. An Electron launcher carrying five of Kinéis’ spacecraft lifted off from Rocket Lab‘s […]
NASA satellites reveal Earth’s continents are getting drier (Image Credit: Space.com) The amount of freshwater found on our planet has dropped significantly in the last decade, NASA satellites have found. An international team of scientists reviewed observations taken by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites operated by NASA, the German […]
Earth bids farewell to its temporary ‘mini moon’ that is possibly a chunk of our actual moon (Image Credit: Phys.org) A supermoon with a partial lunar eclipse rises over Lake Michigan in Chicago, Sept. 17, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File Planet Earth is parting company with an asteroid that’s been tagging […]
Rocket Lab launches 200th satellite to orbit (photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) Rocket Lab launched five “Internet of Things” (IoT) satellites to orbit on Sunday night (Nov. 24), continuing to build out a constellation for the French company Kinéis. An Electron launcher carrying five of Kinéis’ spacecraft lifted off from Rocket Lab‘s New […]
SpaceX launching 23 Starlink satellites from Florida early Nov. 25 (Image Credit: Space.com) SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast early Monday morning (Nov. 25). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink spacecraft — including 12 with direct-to-smartphone capability — is scheduled to lift […]
WEAVE spectrograph uncovers dual nature of galaxy shock (Image Credit: Phys.org) WEAVE decomposition of gas in Stephan’s Quintet, overlaid on a JWST image. The red highlights gas shocked by the collision, while green and blue shows star-forming regions. The purple areas represent bubbles with an unknown origin. The black contours show neutral […]
How amateur radio is connecting astronauts in space with kids on Earth (Image Credit: Space.com) Consider this: It is now four decades ago that astronaut Owen Garriott, callsign W5LFL, pioneered amateur radio communication from space. He was a crewmember on the space shuttle program’s STS-9 mission. During that space shuttle flight in […]
How a mini-team of NASA archivists is restoring astronomical history (Image Credit: Space.com) Precious data from space missions, going back decades, is being carefully restored and archived by scientists at NASA’s Space Science Date Coordinated Archive, allowing researchers today to make new discoveries by delving into the history books. “What’s surprising is […]
NASA tests cellphone-sized underwater robots for future ocean world missions (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) A swarm of tiny robots destined to search for life on a faraway moon recently began its journey in a swimming pool here on Earth. The SWIM robots — short for Sensing With Independent Microswimmers — demonstrated impressive […]
Eileen Collins’ Unlikely Journey to Becoming the First Woman to Command NASA’s Space Shuttle (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) Eileen Collins didn’t want to put her life on the big screen. Standing on the dimly lit stage at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village at the premiere of a feature-length documentary about her life […]
