[ad_1] Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Pastby Sarah Parcak When the Soviets sent Sputnik into orbit, they weren’t just kicking off the Space Race but ushering in an entirely new era for humanity. Suddenly the stars were within reach and we were afforded the clearest view in history of our home planet. […]
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Initial Creative Emmy winners include Apple, Netflix and NASA
[ad_1] Other victors were decidedly less conventional. Apple’s take on Carpool Karaoke won as the best short form variety series, while Google’s VR short film Age of Sail picked up three awards for color and design. The Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media award was split evenly between the AI-themed Twitch series Artificial and the Oculus […]
NASA and ESA will team up to deflect Earth-bound asteroids
[ad_1] NASA will provide the collider, the Double Asteroid Impact Test (DART). It should launch in summer 2021 and will smack into the smaller of the two Didymos asteroids at about 14,764MPH. An Italian cubesat, LICIACube, will study the moment of impact. After that, the ESA will launch a Hera probe in October 2024 to […]
Arecibo Observatory nets $19 million grant to search for dangerous asteroids
[ad_1] Asteroids that are predicted to come within 5 million miles of the Earth are considered a potential threat by NASA. While that seems like a vast distance, gravity could shift an asteroid’s orbit closer and closer to Earth, eventually resulting in an impact. A proactive approach is certainly preferred for this type of work, […]
NASA’s much-delayed James Web Space Telescope has finally been assembled
[ad_1] The telescope will be the successor to Hubble, and it includes a five-layer sunshield which blocks infrared light from the sun to keep the delicate components cool. The sunshield was already integrated with the spacecraft that will launch the project, and the telescope itself had to be lifted onto to this combination using a […]
NASA starts accepting kids’ name suggestions for its Mars 2020 rover
[ad_1] NASA will whittle the competition down to 52 semi finalists per group, each representing their state or territory. The public will have a chance to vote on nine finalists in January 2020, and you’ll find out the name on February 18th, 2020, a year before the rover is expected to land on the Martian […]
Bell’s self-flying cargo drone completes its first flight
[ad_1] “We are excited to reach this milestone, and look forward to continuing to advance this technology for our customers,” said Scott Drennan, vice president of Bell’s Innovation team. The company will be testing the APT 70 for the rest of the year. Following that trial period, it plans to use the vehicle to conduct […]
NASA’s new moon-landing supercomputer is more powerful and more eco-friendly
[ad_1] Aitken can run simulations at up to 3.69 petaflops of theoretical performance and has 221 TB of storage. It has 1,150 nodes and 46,080 cores and is powered by a HPE SGI 8600 system using second-generation Intel Xeon processors with Mellanox InfiniBand for networking. To keep all that computing power cool, the housing module […]
Divorce dispute leads to accusation of crime in space
[ad_1] McClain has acknowledged accessing the account, but said she was checking finances as she’d always done during the relationship, with Worden’s knowledge and permission. McClain was “totally cooperating,” according to her attorney. This isn’t the first instance of crime allegations linked to space programs. The New York Times noted that NASA caught a widow […]
NASA confirms mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa
[ad_1] Researchers first presented their proposal to NASA in 2017, revealing a boxy lander that would study both the surface and what’s below. The team didn’t need confirmation of the mission to get started — there have already been tests for its data antenna. The moon is potentially the best candidate for life in the […]