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JPL Commits to First-Ever Space Industry Diversity Pledge
Interim Director Larry James joined 22 executives in a commitment to significantly increase the number of women and employees from underrepresented groups by 2030.
Twenty-three space industry executives, including Larry James, interim director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, gathered at…
ASUS launches that Zenbook 14X OLED Space Edition with the mini OLED screen on its lid
April 14, 2022
ASUS has officially launched the Zenbook 14X OLED Space Edition, and it’s available for $1,999.99 on Newegg and Amazon. The laptop comes with a 12th Gen Intel i9-12900H plus integrated Intel Iris Xe graphics — but its futuristic design is what really makes it stand…
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With help from a cryocooler, the Mid-Infrared Instrument has dropped down to just a few degrees above the lowest temperature matter can reach and is ready for calibration.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will see the first galaxies to form…
NASA Shows Off Psyche Spacecraft to Media
April 12, 2022
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NASA Shows Off Psyche Spacecraft to Media
Members of the media were invited to a clean room at JPL to interview mission leaders and see the asteroid-orbiting spacecraft before it ships to Florida for its August launch.
Engineers are putting the final touches on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which is set to launch from Cape Canaveral…
How do you make a good midrange phone better? If you’re Samsung, you swap in a house-made processor, bump up the battery capacity, ditch the in-box charger, and lower the price by $50. Follow that recipe and you get the $449 Galaxy A53 5G.
Samsung also followed the…
Despite SpaceX implying that the US didn’t give money to send Starlink terminals to Ukraine in March, a report from The Washington Post reveals that the government actually paid millions of dollars for equipment and transportation. The report found that the US Agency for…
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US Space Force Releases Decades of Bolide Data to NASA for Planetary Defense Studies
Hosted by JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, the data can be used by the science community to better understand how asteroids break up when entering the atmosphere.
An agreement between NASA and the U.S. Space Force recently authorized the public release of…
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Reroutes Away From ‘Gator-Back’ Rocks
To avoid patches of knife-edged rocks, the mission has taken an alternative path up Mount Sharp.
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover spent most of March climbing the…
SpaceX poised to send first private crew to the International Space Station for Axiom Space
April 7, 2022
Tomorrow morning, SpaceX is set to launch yet another crew of four to the International Space Station from Florida — but unlike most of the company’s passenger flights, this new crop of flyers won’t include any current NASA astronauts. All four members of the crew are…
Army Corps of Engineers closes SpaceX Starbase permit application citing lack of information
April 7, 2022
The US Army Corps of Engineers has closed a permit application for a proposed expansion of SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas — a potential snag in the company’s plans to add new launch and landing pads to the area, as well as substantially grow the site. In a letter viewed by The Verge, the Corps cited SpaceX’s failure to provide requested follow-up information about the…
