NASA is back in control of its CAPSTONE spacecraft after the lunar orbiter lost power and communications and spent weeks powered down in safe mode while tumbling through the void.
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Microbial life may have flourished on early Mars but those early Martians may have been the cause of potentially life-ending climate change on the Red Planet.
The early Martian atmosphere was most likely rich in carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and if the first microbes on Mars behaved like those on early Earth, gulping CO2 and H2 and expelling methane, the researchers found an effect akin to, but opposite from, Earth’s warming climate: Mars froze instead.
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Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) say they have developed a method to run suites of simulations to better understand turbulence in fluid flows and so deliver more efficient combustion for improved space propulsion systems.
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SpaceX has yet to send Starship to orbit, but that’s not stopping the company from selling rides aboard the future megarocket. Dennis and Akiko Tito are the first passengers announced for SpaceX’s second commercial spaceflight around the Moon. The pair, along with 10 others, will fly aboard the company’s Starship on a trajectory that will take the spacecraft through cislunar space.
No date has been set for the mission, as a fully stacked Starship has yet to leave the ground. The billionaire couple refrained from disclosing the price, according to Ars Technica, but you can bet it was a pretty penny.
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NASA sets November date for next SLS Moon rocket delay, er, launch
NASA now hopes to blast an unmanned Orion capsule atop a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the Moon on November 14 after suffering, among other delays, a setback due to Hurricane Ian smashing up Florida.
The nearly 100-metre-tall heavy launch vehicle was slowly wheeled back to the hangar on September 26 to shelter from the devastating storm. Now that Hurricane Ian has blown over, NASA can roll the rocket back out onto the launchpad at Cape Canaveral on the US East Coast to prepare for yet more delays, sorry, actual launch next month.
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Opinion: The Outer Space Treaty is 55 and out of date
what’s the word or phrase for feeling seen, and not being happy about it?
Reverse Exhibitionism
Puke can not be destroyed. Or is that just information about puke?
What?
