If Congress’ sweeping new spending bill is signed, it would finally provide full funding to some major NASA projects that have been underfunded over the last few years. Notably, NASA’s program to develop a new human lunar lander would be fully funded as the president’s budget requested, as will a program to develop new commercial space stations in low Earth orbit.
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Meet the project manager of the first rocket to launch from the surface of another planet, the Mars Ascent Vehicle.
Right now, some 182 million miles (293 million kilometers) separate the red clay of Alabama from the dusty red planet Mars. But…
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NASA’s Psyche Gets Huge Solar Arrays for Trip to Metal-Rich Asteroid
With its solar arrays installed, the spacecraft is close to its final configuration ahead of a planned August launch.
NASA’s Psyche mission is almost ready for its moment…
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Space Station to Host ‘Self-Healing’ Quantum Communications Tech Demo
The NASA-funded experiment will test two technologies that could eventually enable quantum computers to communicate with each other no matter where they are located.
A tiny experiment launching to the International Space Station later this year could set the stage for a future…
Samsung confirms hackers stole Galaxy source code
March 7, 2022
Hackers have successfully stolen internal company data and source code for Galaxy devices from Samsung, the South Korean tech giant confirmed today.
News of the breach was first reported earlier this month, with a hacking outfit named Lapsus$ claiming responsibility. The…
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NASA Finds Each State Has Its Own Climatic Threshold for Flu Outbreaks
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NASA satellite data illuminates a critical relationship between low humidity and the outbreak of flu in the U.S.
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NASA Begins Assembly of Europa Clipper Spacecraft
March 4, 2022
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NASA Begins Assembly of Europa Clipper Spacecraft
Science instruments and other hardware for the spacecraft will come together in the mission’s final phase before a launch to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa in 2024.
When it’s fully assembled, NASA’s Europa Clipper will be as large as an SUV with solar arrays long enough to span a basketball court…
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California Fire Led to Spike in Bacteria, Cloudiness in Coastal Waters
Scientists analyzed coastal water quality in the months following a major Southern California wildfire. Their results were eye-opening.
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NASA’s NuSTAR Makes Illuminating Discoveries With ‘Nuisance’ Light
A design quirk in the X-ray observatory has made it possible for astronomers to use previously unwanted light to study even more cosmic objects than before.
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DisplayPort 2.0 is finally starting to make its way out into the world after months of delays, and the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) is working hard to make sure that customers will be able to actually tell whether cables or devices support the benefits of the standard with a new certification program, the group announced today.
The new program is specifically aimed at clarifying…
