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NASA Wins 3 2021 Webby Awards, 2 People’s Voice Honors
NASA-JPL web experiences are among NASA’s winners at the 2021 Webby awards, which recognize excellence on the internet.
NASA received three Webby Awards and was honored as the People’s Voice winner in two categories in the 2021 Webby Awards competition. The awards, given by the International…
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Salts Could Be Important Piece of Martian Organic Puzzle, NASA Scientists Find
A NASA team has found that organic, or carbon-containing, salts are likely present on Mars, with implications for the Red Planet’s past…
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In a First, Scientists Map Particle-Laden Rivers in the Sky
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Windy regions high in the atmosphere can transport pollutants like dust or soot thousands of miles around the world and disrupt…
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Robotic Navigation Tech Will Explore the Deep Ocean
Terrain-relative navigation helped Perseverance land – and Ingenuity fly – autonomously on Mars. Now it’s time to test a similar system while exploring another frontier.
On May 14, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Okeanos Explorer will depart…
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NASA Sets Briefing to Discuss Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Next Steps
Editor’s note: The briefing scheduled for Friday, April 30, to discuss next steps for the helicopter has moved to a new time, 11:30 a.m. EDT (8:30 a.m. PDT).
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As a politician, space was Bill Nelson’s thing. He started out as a state lawmaker near Florida’s Space Coast, ascended to Congress in 1978, then became the House’s first sitting member to actually go to space in 1986, flying as a payload specialist aboard Space…
Elon Musk-founded SpaceX is in the process of rolling out Starlink as a satellite internet provider around the world. As part of a new partnership, Google Cloud data centers will be home to key Starlink infrastructure in order to let enterprise users better access key services.
This partnership starts with SpaceX building Starlink ground stations inside Google data centers for “secure…
A senior lawmaker proposed a controversial piece of legislation on Wednesday that directs NASA to pick a second company to build the agency’s next Moon landers — in addition to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which was awarded a $2.9 billion NASA contract to build a lander earlier…
As you’ve surely heard, last night’s guest host on Saturday Night Live was not a charismatic movie actor promoting a new project but instead an endlessly hyped CEO named Elon Musk. Over the course of an hour and a half, SNL had Musk dress up as a misunderstood Wario…
SpaceX is now accepting Dogecoin, and it’ll be paid exclusively in the cryptocurrency to launch an upcoming satellite named DOGE-1 to — yes — the Moon.
The DOGE-1 is a cubesat meant to acquire “lunar-spatial intelligence” using onboard cameras and sensors. It’s being sent and paid for by a company named Geometric Energy Corporation, and it’ll be flown up on a Falcon 9 rocket in the…
