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“SpaceX’s latest Starship prototype went out in a blaze of glory. The Starship SN10 spacecraft touched down successfully after a high-altitude test flight today (March 3), a major milestone for the company and its crewed Mars ambitions. But the …
“Previous NASA Mars rovers mostly used an operating system from Wind River Systems. But this time, the space agency chose Linux for Perseverance’s Ingenuity helicopter drone. When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars this week, it also brought …
“The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message, thanks to a puzzle-lover on the spacecraft team — and space lovers solved it within hours. Engineers wanted an unusual pattern in the orange …
News NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Provides Front-Row Seat to Landing, First Audio Recording of Red Planet
“New video from NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface …
News NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Show Us More Stars at Higher Resolution—Here’s What That Means for Astronomy
“The combination of high resolution and infrared-detecting instruments on NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will reveal stars that are currently hidden even from the powerful Hubble Space Telescope. The wealth of additional star data will allow astronomers to …
News Renesas’ Intersil-Brand Radiation-Hardened ICs Onboard the Hayabusa2 Six-Year Asteroid Samples Retrieval Mission
“Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced that its radiation-hardened (rad-hard) integrated circuits (ICs) were onboard the Hayabusa2 spacecraft that returned asteroid samples to Earth in an armored re-entry capsule on December 6 …
News Tianwen-1 probe’s successful entry into Mars orbit represents China’s ambitious endeavor to make innovations
“China’s first Mars exploration mission Tianwen-1 successfully slowed down for the third time near Mars at 06:29 a.m. on Feb. 24 Beijing time and entered the Mars parking orbit. The Mars probe will spend about three months …
News Hewlett Packard Enterprise accelerates space exploration with first ever in-space commercial edge computing and artificial intelligence capabilities
“Astronauts and researchers can process data at the edge and speed time-to-insight from months to minutes with launch of HPE’s Spaceborne Computer-2, an edge computing system for the International Space Station Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it is …
“NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), the foundational elements of the Gateway. As the first long-term orbiting …
“The agency’s latest and most complex mission to the Red Planet has touched down at Jezero Crater. Now it’s time to begin testing the health of the rover. The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another …