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Season Five of ‘The Invisible Network’ Explores the Deep Space Network

.The NASA podcast explores a variety of space communications and navigation topics, and the upcoming fifth season will focus on the JPL-managed Deep Space Network. NASA’s “The Invisible Network” podcast returns on June 9 for a six-episode season about NASA’s Deep Space Network. Managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the Deep Space Network provides critical…
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NASA Selects Minority-Serving Institution Proposals to Receive Support

. NASA Selects Minority-Serving Institution Proposals to Receive Support The awardees in the first MSI Space Accelerator have been announced after a competitive application process in which they were encouraged to think like startup businesses. Three teams from minority-serving academic institutions have been selected as awardees in a first-of-its-kind competition to…
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5 Things to Know About NASA’s New Mineral Dust Detector

Called EMIT, the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation will analyze dust carried through the atmosphere from dry regions to see what effects it has on the planet. Each year, strong winds carry more than a billion metric tons – or the weight of 10,000 aircraft…
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Twitter’s reportedly shifting teams away from Spaces, newsletters, and communities

Twitter is pulling employees off of working on major consumer-facing features like audio Spaces, communities, and newsletters and instead plans to refocus their efforts on user growth and personalization, according to Bloomberg. The changes come as a pending buyout by Elon Musk is already casting a shadow on every move the company makes — and follows just weeks after Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal…
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NASA Invites Media to Discuss Space Station Science, Climate Research

. NASA Invites Media to Discuss Space Station Science, Climate Research One of the primary payloads aboard the cargo flight is the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation or EMIT. NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT (10 a.m. PDT) Thursday, June 2, to discuss the hardware, technology demonstrations, and science experiments…
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