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LittleBigPlanet online security issues blamed for permanent server shutdown on PS3 and Vita

September 14, 2021

Sony has permanently shut down the servers for the original three LittleBigPlanet games on Playstation 3 and the handheld LittleBigPlanet on the Playstation Vita, according to a tweet posted by the official LittleBigPlanet account on Monday (via IGN). The new status quo leaves the originally PS3 trilogy of LittleBigPlanet games and the Vita version playable as offline single-player or co-op…

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects Puzzle Pieces of Mars’ History

September 11, 2021

. NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects Puzzle Pieces of Mars’ History The rocks it has analyzed for sample collection are helping the team better understand a past marked by volcanic activity and water. NASA’s Perseverance Mars…

Mars Perseverance Team Members to Be Recognized at Hispanic Heritage Awards

September 9, 2021

. Mars Perseverance Team Members to Be Recognized at Hispanic Heritage Awards The three award recipients – Diana Trujillo, Christina Hernandez, and Clara O’Farrell – are engineers from the NASA rover team. Three Latina…

NASA sets new date for James Webb Space Telescope launch

September 8, 2021

The James Webb Space Telescope, humanity’s next big space-bound eye on the cosmos, has a new launch date of December 18th, NASA announced on Wednesday. It’s the latest among dozens of other delays for a telescope that was originally planned to go to space as early as 2007. The $8.8 billion observatory, named after NASA’s second administrator, is a tennis court-sized successor to NASA’s…

NASA to Host Briefing on Successful Sample Collection of Martian Rock

September 8, 2021

. NASA to Host Briefing on Successful Sample Collection of Martian Rock Panelists will discuss the Perseverance rover’s successful collection of the sample and latest science analysis. NASA will hold a virtual media briefing…

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects First Mars Rock Sample

September 7, 2021

. NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects First Mars Rock Sample The rock core is now enclosed in an airtight titanium sample tube, and will be available for retrieval in the future. NASA’s…

Planetary Radar Observes 1,000th Near-Earth Asteroid Since 1968

September 4, 2021

. Planetary Radar Observes 1,000th Near-Earth Asteroid Since 1968 Your browser cannot play the provided video file(s). Seven days after this historic milestone, a massive antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network Goldstone complex imaged another, far larger object. On Aug. 14, 2021, a small near-Earth asteroid (NEA) designated 2021 PJ1 passed our planet at…

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock

September 3, 2021

. NASA’s Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock Perseverance will obtain additional imagery of the sample tube before potentially completing the process of collecting its first…

Improving Food Security Through Capacity Building

September 2, 2021

. Improving Food Security Through Capacity Building Millions of people suffer from food insecurity around the globe. With the help of Earth-observing satellites, the NASA-USAID SERVIR project is hoping to reduce that number. Food…

NASA’s Deep Space Network Looks to the Future

September 2, 2021

. NASA’s Deep Space Network Looks to the Future The DSN is being upgraded to communicate with more spacecraft than ever before and to accommodate evolving mission needs. When NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover touched down on the Red Planet, the agency’s Deep Space Network (DSN) was there, enabling the mission to send and receive the data that…