[ad_1] The robot and one of its companions, Honey, flew to the station on April 17th. When in service, the Astrobee robots will effectively become spaceborne Roombas — they’ll test how well robots can handle day-to-day maintenance and assist the crew. Ideally, future robots will take care of this drudgery so that humans can focus […]
Category: Nasa
NASA details the most distant world we’ve ever observed
[ad_1] The paper, published in Science, contains information on the “planetesimal’s” development, geology and composition. As NASA previously said, Ultima Thule has two lobes that make it look like snowman, though it’s actually flattened like a pancake. Those two lobes appear to have formed close to one another before they became an orbiting pair that […]
NASA teams up with SpaceX, Blue Origin to design a human lunar lander
[ad_1] The agency is hoping the initiative could lead to the development of a human landing system that includes a transfer vehicle astronauts can use from its proposed orbital moon base called the Gateway to low-lunar orbit. In addition, the lander must also have a descent element that can carry the astronauts to the lunar […]
Senators ask the FCC to limit 5G auction to protect weather forecasts
[ad_1] The concern raised in the original Navy memo is that weather forecasts could be lost or degraded due to interference from 5G operating in the 24 GHz band. As the memo explains, the Navy relies on forecasts from NOAA and NASA that use remote sensing in the 23.6-24 GHz bands to determine water vapor. […]
Trump administration proposes another $1.6 billion for Moon efforts
[ad_1] The amended budget will need to clear both sides of Congress before it can take effect. Whether or that happens isn’t certain. This assumes no objections to the budget that lead to it dying in the House or the Senate, whether or not they pertain to spaceflight — a wholly independent issue could sink […]
NASA wants your memories of the Apollo 11 Moon landing
[ad_1] You have until the end of 2019 to submit recordings, although you’ll have your “best chance” of making it into the official audio series if you send your file before June 14th. Longer clips may be reserved for the web or social networks. There’s a certain amount of publicity in this for NASA, especially […]
Dust storms may have stolen all of Mars’ water
[ad_1] At one point, Mars had a thick atmosphere and up to 20 percent of its surface was covered by liquid water, scientists figure. Around 4 billion years ago, however, Mars lost its magnetic field and with little to protect it from destructive solar winds, the red planet lost much of its atmosphere. That left […]
NASA’s Hubble Legacy Field image contains 16 years of data
[ad_1] It encompasses a region in the sky that includes those shown in older Hubble mosaics — the Ultra Deep Field and the eXtreme Deep Field — and contains 265,000 galaxies. That’s 30 times as many galaxies as previous deep field images, enough to cover an area that’s almost as wide as the moon. While […]
NASA was sold faulty rocket parts for almost 20 years
[ad_1] LSP, along with NASA’s Office of the Inspector General and the US Department of Justice, have discovered the Sapa Profiles falsified critical tests on the aluminum it sold. For almost two decades, employees would doctor failing numbers or violate other testing standards, such as increasing the speed of testing machines or using sample sizes […]
SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule suffers ‘anomaly’ in testing
[ad_1] The company had been gearing up for a mission abort test that would have fired all eight of Crew Dragon’s SuperDraco engines in mid-launch, showing that the capsule could get away from its host rocket in an emergency. That test was supposed to take place in June, but it’s not certain this will happen […]