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NASA's tiny CAPSTONE cubesat launches on pioneering moon mission The 55-pound (25 kilograms) cubesat launched today (June 28) atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster, which lifted off from the company's Launch Complex 1 on the Māhia Peninsula of New Zealand at 5:55 a.m. EDT (0955 GMT; 9:55 p.m. local time in New Zealand).
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Watch Mercury roll by as BepiColombo probe makes superclose flyby A new video released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on Monday (June 27) shows the crater-riddled surface of the solar system's smallest planet Mercury as captured during a super close flyby of the BepiColombo spacecraft.
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Alien super-Earths may get a habitability boost from hydrogen-rich atmospheres Alien rocky worlds cocooned in hydrogen and helium could prove habitable to life as we know it for billions of years, with key features such as temperate conditions and liquid water, a new study finds. On Earth, there is life virtually wherever there ...
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Mini-mission to blaze NASA's trail back to the moon An engineer at Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems inspects solar arrays on NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Dominic Hart. NASA and commercial companies are ready to launch a 55-pound spacecraft from New Zealand to the moon Tuesday on a pathfinder ...
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After software delays, NASA says Psyche asteroid mission won't launch this year After "herculean" efforts to overcome the software testing problem, NASA concluded last week that the Psyche mission will not be able to launch with acceptable risk levels during a launch period between Sept. 20 and Oct. 11, said Lori Glaze, director of ...
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Microwave-size spacecraft launches to test new orbit between Earth and the moon The CAPSTONE mission will be the first to fly in a unique orbit intended for use by the Artemis program's Gateway lunar outpost. Daniel Rutte/NASA. Sign up for CNN's ...
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They Found Two New Craters on the Moon and Discovered a New Mystery After months of scrutinizing photographs of the lunar surface, scientists have finally found the crash site of a forgotten rocket stage that struck the far side of the moon in March. They still do not know for sure which rocket the wayward debris ...
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New double crater seen on the moon after mystery rocket impact New images shared by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling the moon since 2009, have revealed the location of the unusual crater. The impact created two craters that overlap, an eastern crater measuring 59 feet (18 meters) across and ...
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'Primordial' Alien Planets May Be Habitable For Billions Of Years Suggests New Research Should astronomers widen the definition of "potentially habitable" when looking at exoplanets? Yes, say the authors of a new paper published in Nature Astronomy today that argues that rocky exoplanets with atmospheres dominated by hydrogen and helium ...
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NASA's CAPSTONE Launch to the Moon: How to Watch At the start of 2022, a variety of launches to the moon by space agencies and private companies appeared to be on the horizon. So far, none of them have gotten off the launchpad. But on Tuesday, the first moonshot of the year, CAPSTONE, is scheduled to ...
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