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NASA's CAPSTONE: Flying a New Path to the Moon
How can a satellite the size of a microwave oven help shape human missions to the Moon and beyond? CAPSTONE will fly in a unique, halo-shaped orbit around the Moon before the orbit is used by Gateway, NASA's future lunar outpost for our...
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NASA and ESA Spacecraft Track a Solar Storm Through Space
While we track CMEs with a number of instruments, the sheer size of the solar system means that our observations are limited, and usually taken from a distance. However, scientists have recently used data from ten NASA and ESA spacecraft...
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Designing Lucy’s Path to the Trojan Asteroids
Lucy is the first mission to explore the Jupiter Trojans – two swarms of asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit, leading and trailing the giant planet by sixty degrees. These primitive bodies are thought to be the “fossils” of planet...
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What Spacecraft Saw During the 2017 Solar Eclipse
On Aug. 21, 2017, a solar eclipse passed over North America. People throughout the continent experienced a partial solar eclipse, and a total solar eclipse passed over a narrow swath of land stretching from Oregon to South Carolina,...
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NASA | TDRS: Continuing The Fleet
NASA is preparing to launch the first in a series of three third generation advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, known as TDRS-K. This latest addition to the fleet of seven will augment a space communications network that...
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How LISA Pathfinder Detected Dozens of 'Comet Crumbs'
LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA contributions, successfully demonstrated technologies needed to build a future space-based gravitational wave observatory, a tool for detecting ripples...
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NASA | TDRS: The Network That Enables Exploration
NASA is preparing to launch the second in a series of three, third generation advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, known as TDRS. This latest addition to the fleet of eight, TDRS-L will augment a space communications network that...
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NASA | Landsat's Orbit
How long does it take for Landsat 8 to orbit the Earth? Or view the full surface of the globe? Jim Irons, the Project Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center tells you what you want to know. As a Landsat satellite flies over the...
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NASA | Cynthia Simmons Women@NASA 2014
Cynthia Simmons - Instrument Project Manager in the Flight Projects Directorate at Goddard Space Flight Center The Women@NASA project is the perfect opportunity to celebrate women from across the agency who contribute to NASA’s mission...
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Tactical Voting in the Leadership Election - TLDR News
Throughout the Conservative leadership contest theirs been speculation that candidates have encouraged their supporters to vote tactically. With the final two candidates selected we look back over the process and examine if there really...
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OSIRIS-REx Sheds Light on Hazardous Asteroid Bennu
On September 25, 2135, an asteroid called Bennu will make a close flyby of Earth. Our planet’s gravity will tweak Bennu’s path, making it a challenge to calculate its future trajectory. During the flyby, there is an extremely small...
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People of Artemis
The Moon has inspired and beckoned generations to explore. NASA’s Artemis I mission will forge a new path to the Moon, charting a course for a new, diverse generation of explorers. We’ll develop the cutting-edge technology we'll need to...
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A Slingshot from Earth to Asteroid Bennu
OSIRIS-REx is NASA's mission to explore near-earth asteroid Bennu, collect a sample, and return it to Earth. To get to Bennu, however, OSIRIS-REx must first leave the plane of Earth's orbit and match the orbital tilt of its target. On...
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Decades of Sun from ESA & NASA’s SOHO
December 2, 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO — a joint mission of the European Space Agency and NASA. Since its launch on that date, the mission has kept watch on the Sun. This view of...
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Discovering Eurybates' Satellite
On Jan. 9, 2020, the Lucy Mission officially announced that it would be visiting not seven, but eight asteroids. As it turns out, Eurybates, one of the asteroids along Lucy’s path, has a small satellite. Shortly after the Lucy team...
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Counting Comets
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a joint mission between ESA (the European Space Agency) and NASA, was not designed to find comets — its original goal was to study the Sun from its deep core to the outer layers of its atmosphere....
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Christine Wheaton Shares Lessons Learned from a Data Breach
Having suffered a data breach at her own company, Henry Ford Health System's CISO Christine Wheaton shares the lessons learned, and the challenges her company faced in response.
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Hubble Makes Unexpected Dark Matter Discovery
Astronomers seem to have revealed a puzzling detail in the way dark matter behaves. They found small, dense concentrations of dark matter that bend and magnify light much more strongly than expected. Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space...
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How NASA Plans to Return to the Moon | Apollo
NASA hasn't sent humans back to the Moon in almost 50 years, but in the next decade, the agency has ambitious plans for a lunar revival. Check out the entire Apollo series here!: https://bit.ly/2ApSfg9 Read More: What’s Really...
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The Apollo 12 Landing Site
This video showcases the Apollo 12 landing site, visualized in three dimensions using photography and a stereo digital elevation model from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. The locations of the flag shadow, experiment package,...
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Where in the Solar System are the Trojan Asteroids?
Lucy is headed to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids! But where exactly in our solar system are these Trojans? They’re probably not quite where you think they are. Watch this video to see the 12-year path our Lucy spacecraft is taking over its...