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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Phones Home

July 1, 2023
The 52nd flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is now in the official mission logbook as a success. The flight took place back on April 26, but mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California lost contact with the helicopter as it descended toward the surface for landing. The Ingenuity team expected the communications dropout because a hill stood between the…
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15 Years of Radio Data Reveals Evidence of Space-Time Murmur

June 29, 2023
The motion of black holes and other massive objects through space can create ripples in the fabric of the universe, called gravitational waves. On June 28 scientists announced the first evidence of a background of long-wavelength gravitational waves that fills the cosmos.
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NASA to Provide Coverage for Launch of ESA ‘Dark Universe’ Mission

June 27, 2023
The ESA (European Space Agency) and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 11:11 a.m. EDT (8:11 a.m. PDT) Saturday, July 1, to launch the Euclid spacecraft. Euclid is an ESA mission with contributions from NASA that will shed light on the nature of dark matter and dark energy, two of the biggest modern mysteries about the universe. Liftoff will be from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida…
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JPL Creates World’s Largest PDF Archive to Aid Malware Research

June 15, 2023
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is well known for landing rovers on Mars, exploring the solar system with robotic probes, and developing sensitive science instruments that observe Earth and other planets. But less well-known is the lab’s cutting-edge work in the digital world. In support of a wider effort to make the internet more secure, JPL data scientists have created the largest single…
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Review Board: NASA-JPL Psyche Progress Outstanding, Launch on Track

June 6, 2023
Steps taken by NASA, the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, and Caltech, to put the Psyche mission on track for an October 2023 launch have been outstanding, according to an independently appointed review board. NASA and JPL convened the board last summer after the Psyche mission team requested to delay the spacecraft’s August 2022 launch to a metal-rich asteroid of the…
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