Artist’s rendering of the DART spacecraft approaching the asteroid. Drawing: Nasa DART’s demise is finally upon us, as the NASA spacecraft is on a collision course with the tiny asteroid Dimorphos. Here’s how you can watch this hugely important experiment to deflect an asteroid. Short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, the DART mission is the …
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Engineers repair the area where a liquid hydrogen leak was detected during SLS’s second launch attempt on September 3. This photo was taken on September 8 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo: Nasa A demonstration to confirm a repaired hydrogen leak appears to have gone well, with NASA saying Wednesday’s cryogenic tank test …
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Artist’s impression of SUSIE performing a vertical landing (video accelerated 2.5 times). GIF: Ariane/Gizmodo Group French aerospace company ArianeGroup has unveiled a concept reusable upper-stage spacecraft that would be capable of delivering heavy payloads into space and performing crewed missions before landing vertically on Earth. SUSIE, short for Smart Upper Stage for Innovative Exploration, was …
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Representation of DART (left) and LICIACube (right). Image: Italian Space Agency DART will not survive its mission to deflect an asteroid, but the recently deployed LICIACube, a tiny probe equipped with cameras, will document the encounter in great detail. from NASA Asteroid double redirect test (DART) is the space agency’s first demonstration of a defense …
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Representation of DART (left) and LICIACube (right). Image: Italian Space Agency DART will not survive its mission to deflect an asteroid, but the recently deployed LICIACube, a tiny probe equipped with cameras, will document the encounter in great detail. from NASA Asteroid double redirect test (DART) is the space agency’s first demonstration of a defense …
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Artistic representation of NASA’s DART probe and the Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube in the Didymos binary system.Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben A NASA spacecraft called DART is about to deliberately crash into a small asteroid as part of a planetary defense test. While this space rock is nothing to worry about, what we learn from …
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Artist’s rendering of CAPSTONE.Image: Nasa Controllers with the CAPSTONE mission are attempt to regain control of the Probe bound to the Moon, which is currently collapsing, is experiencing temperature issues and is unable to use its solar panels to fully recharge its batteries. In a update released on Monday, Advanced Space described it as a …
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Artist’s rendering of CAPSTONE.Image: Nasa Controllers with the CAPSTONE mission are attempt to regain control of the Probe bound to the Moon, which is currently collapsing, is experiencing temperature issues and is unable to use its solar panels to fully recharge its batteries. In a update released on Monday, Advanced Space described it as a …
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Brush firThey appeared shortly after the Starship’s static firing test on Thursday, September 8, 2022.Screenshot: NASAspaceflight SpaceX conducted a static firing test of a prototype Starship rocket on Thursday, in which the six raptor engines were engaged. The eight seconds the test seemed to go well, except for the problematic brush fire that ensued. The …
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SLS on the Kennedy Space Center launch pad in Florida. Photo: Nasa NASA is preparing to replace a faulty seal linked to a hydrogen leak that led to SLS’s second launch attempt on Saturday. Repairs will take place on the launch pad, which is ideal from a testing perspective, but NASA still needs to get …
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