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Oct 13, 2021

Photographer offers visual slant on space shuttle in ‘Orbital Planes’

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Kickstarter campaign offers signed books, photo prints.


For more than 30 years, Roland Miller has used photography to bring new light to the U.S. space program, from visual tours of abandoned launch pads to floating among the laboratories on the International Space Station. Now, Miller is preparing to release his third collection, this one focused on the space shuttle, the winged orbiters that were central to U.S. human spaceflight for three decades.

Orbital Planes: A Personal Vision of the Space Shuttle” presents Miller’s own interpretation of the iconic spacecraft, based on his effort to capture the fleet in its transition to retirement.

Oct 13, 2021

NASA’s Perseverance Initiates Remarkable Sample Return Mission

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NASA, along with the European Space Agency, is developing a campaign to return the Martian samples to Earth.

Oct 13, 2021

How to watch NASA’s Lucy asteroid mission launch this week online

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NASA is getting ready to launch a new science spacecraft Saturday (Oct. 16) to study asteroids near Jupiter, and you can watch mission coverage live all week.

Lucy — which will study Trojan asteroids, or asteroids that share the orbit of the giant planet — will fly to space from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. With blast-off targeting 5:34 a.m. EDT (0934 GMT), live launch coverage will begin at 5 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT) on NASA Television, the NASA app, NASA social media channels and here at Space.com.

Oct 12, 2021

Epic Particle Collider Experiment in US Could Reveal How Matter Holds Itself Together

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When the Nobel Prize-winning US physicist Robert Hofstadter and his team fired highly energetic electrons at a small vial of hydrogen at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1,956 they opened the door to a new era of physics.

Until then, it was thought that protons and neutrons, which make up an atom’s nucleus, were the most fundamental particles in nature.

They were considered to be ‘dots’ in space, lacking physical dimensions. Now it suddenly became clear that these particles were not fundamental at all, and had a size and complex internal structure as well.

Oct 12, 2021

New Perseverance Photo Reveals Martian Rocks In Incredible Detail

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Every Mars rock has a story to tell.


We all know that Mars is a rocky and dusty planet. But what happens when you get up close to its surface? The results are mighty impressive.

Oct 11, 2021

Gravitas: India’s game plan to win the global space race

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India is entering the space industry.


India is opening doors for private companies to enter space.
PM Narendra Modi launched the Indian Space Association that will serve as a “single-window” for matters of space technology.
What is India’s game plan to win the global space race?
Palki Sharma tells you.

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Oct 11, 2021

The Biggest Comet Ever Discovered Is About to Cruise

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Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a gigantic comet — and they say it’s headed towards Earth.

The comet was discovered by University of Pennsylvania astronomers Pedro Bernadinelli and Gary Bernstein, according to The Daily Beast. The pair initially found evidence of a 60 to 100 mile wide comet seven years ago and have finally released a paper confirming it late last month in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Dubbed the Bernardinelli-Bernstein (BB) comet, the astronomers also described it as the “nearly spherical cow of comets” in the paper.

Oct 11, 2021

1,000 days on the moon! China’s Chang’e 4 lunar far side mission hits big milestone

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The historic mission is still going strong.


A Chinese lander and rover are still up and running more than 1,000 Earth days after they made a historic first-ever landing on the far side of the moon.

The Chang’e 4 lander carrying the Yutu 2 rover touched down in Von Kármán Crater on Jan. 2 2019, and the robotic mission has been exploring the unique area of our celestial neighbor ever since.

Oct 10, 2021

NASA’s asteroid spacecraft Lucy launches this week on ambitious 12-year mission

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NASA’s next asteroid-bound mission to explore the earliest days of our solar system is nearly ready to launch.

The Lucy spacecraft is targeting a launch window that opens on Saturday (Oct. 16). After blastoff, the spacecraft will make a 12-year journey to the outer solar system, where it will visit half a dozen ancient “Trojan” asteroids that orbit in the same path as the planet Jupiter.

Oct 10, 2021

It’ll Soon be Possible to Make Satellite Phone Calls With Your Regular Phone

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Not all who wander are lost – but sometimes their cell phone reception is. That might change soon if a plan to project basic cell phone coverage to all parts of the globe comes to fruition. Lynk has already proven it can use a typical smartphone to bound a standard SMS text message off a low-earth-orbiting satellite, and they don’t plan to stop there.

Formerly known as Ubiquitilink, Lynk was founded a few years ago by Nanoracks founder Charles Miller and his partners but came out of “stealth mode” as a start-up in 2019. In 2020 they then used a satellite to send an SMS message from a typical smartphone, without requiring the fancy GPS locators and antennas needed by other, specially made satellite phones.

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