If we’re to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we’ll have to know what challenges await them when they get there. Enter M-MATISSE, a potential precursor to a crewed mission to the Red Planet.
Category: 2. Space
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The Mars mission that could prep for a human landing (w/video)
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EnduroSat USA names former DARPA official as CEO to lead U.S. expansion
WASHINGTON — European satellite manufacturer EnduroSat has appointed Paul “Rusty” Thomas as chief executive of its U.S. subsidiary, EnduroSat USA, as the company scales up operations.
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I Am Artemis: Joe Pavicic
Listen to this audio excerpt from Joe Pavicic, Artemis operations project engineer
Joe Pavicic will never forget when he told the Artemis launch director teams were NO-GO for launch.
Before…
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NASA’s SPHEREx Is Mapping the Infrared Universe in 102 Colors – And It’s All Public
SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen stargazers alike can trace water, organics, and the universe’s first moments while NASA’s open-science philosophy…
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NASA Flips a Mars Orbiter Upside Down – And Discovers a Hidden World
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ten-times-stronger echoes, exposing hidden ice and geology more than a mile underground. Engineers painstakingly schedule these flips…
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Polar Tourists Give Positive Reviews to NASA Citizen Science in Antarctica
Citizen science projects result in an overwhelmingly positive impact on the polar tourism experience. That’s according to a new paper analyzing participant experiences in the first two years of FjordPhyto, a NASA Citizen Science…
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Tiny Crystals Hidden in Cosmic Ice Could Rewrite What We Know About Water and Life
Scientists have uncovered a hidden structure inside the Universe’s most common ice—found on comets, moons, and interstellar dust—challenging decades of belief. What was thought to be shapeless, “amorphous” ice is actually embedded with tiny…
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Defense startups across Europe need a blueprint to compete
No one has to be reminded that we’re living at a dangerous time, and across Europe, leaders are scrambling to find the money to strengthen the bloc’s defenses. The continent’s defense startups are increasingly playing their part….
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Astronomers Catch Planets in the Act of Being Born
A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ‘pebbles’ around two young stars.
These seeds to make new worlds are thought to gradually clump together over time, in much…
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Sound of The Big Bang Suggests Our Galaxy Floats Inside a Void : ScienceAlert
Sound waves ‘fossilized’ in the arrangements of galaxies across the Universe support the theory that the Milky Way galaxy floats adrift in a giant void in space.
If this is the case, we could be teetering at the brink of solving one of the…
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