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Jun 11, 2018
NASA confirms its $1 billion Jupiter mission will cheat death for at least 3 more years
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Hooray for Juno!
Though NASA’s Juno spacecraft has probed Jupiter’s secrets for nearly two years, the $1 billion mission was set to crash into the planet’s clouds in July. Now, however, the agency has confirmed Business Insider’s previous report that Juno will get three additional years of flight.
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Jun 10, 2018
The asteroid rush sending 21st-century prospectors into space
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: futurism, space
A race is on to mine billions of dollars in resources from the solar system’s asteroids, fuelling our future among the stars.
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Jun 10, 2018
Breakthrough in search for Martian life as Curiosity finds organic matter and seasonal methane
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: innovation, space
What did they find out?
NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered the best evidence yet that life may have once existed on Mars.
Jun 7, 2018
The Trump Self-Defense Doctrine for the New Space Era
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: security, space
A new space era is dawning and will be upon us by the early 2020s. In the face of emerging novel threats and vulnerabilities, whether the self-defense doctrine allows us to counter the threat before the attack occurs can make the difference between peace and war.
President Trump unveiled the America First National Space Strategy on March 23 covering both commercial and civil space, and national security space. This important document has drawn few comments, which are typified by the observation of Spacepolicyonline.com founder and editor Marcia Smith that “the Trump strategy contains little that is new.”
Indeed, most of the national security provisions, which are the focus of this article, are only different in rhetoric but not in substance from those of the Obama administration and it’s predecessors. However, that they are the same is fine because they are equally essential for the new space era.
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Jun 7, 2018
NASA Found Evidence of Organic Matter on Mars. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal
Posted by Nicholi Avery in category: space
Jun 6, 2018
NASA is announcing a new discovery from Mars on Thursday — here’s how to watch it live
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: climatology, space
Here’s how to watch the announcement live.
NASA’s Curiosity Rover has found some new and exciting information about Mars, and the space agency is announcing that discovery to the world on Thursday.
The Curiosity Rover launched from Earth in November 2011 and landed on Martian soil on August 6, 2012. It has since been cruising around the red planet’s surface, functioning as a 9-foot-wide roving science machine.
Jun 6, 2018
Vela X-1 is plowing its way through the galaxy
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: energy, space
Every now and again you run into an astronomical object where everything about it is mind blowing. And I get to share it with you! Let me introduce you to a binary star that will crush your imagination and make you realize the Universe is way cooler than you knew.
A few million years ago, and 6,000 light years from Earth, two stars were born out of the gas and dust in the galaxy in a cluster with many other stars. These two formed together, so close their mutual and growing gravity bound them together, forcing them to orbit one another. And they grew huge: By the time they switched on and became true stars, they each had more than two dozen times the mass of the Sun.
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