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Jan
23
2023
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By Fredric M. Wiseman
NASA provides a payout of $35,000 to find harmful Algal blooms

NASA provides a payout of $35,000 to find harmful Algal blooms

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NASA provides a payout of $35,000 to find harmful Algal blooms. The winner will be awarded $12,000. The second and third prizes are worth $9,000 or $6,000. The United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) offers $10,000 in cash rewards to identify harmful algal blooms on photos captured from space. The contest is called "Tick Tick Bloom' contestants must study satellite images of bodies of water in the inland regions to find and categorize algal blooms according to their intensity. The winner will win $12,000. The second and third prizes are worth $9,000 and $6,000 . The top five…
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Jan
06
2023
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By Debbik S.
NASA is in financial trouble for a broader Earth science mission

NASA is in financial trouble for a broader Earth science mission

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NASA is in financial trouble for a broader Earth science mission. NASA will allow three of its aging Earth sciences missions to be included in an upcoming review of extended missions in the face of budgetary pressures that could affect its entire portfolio of missions. In a town hall held at a town hall on Dec. 15 during the Autumn Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, NASA officials revealed that they had invited Aqua, Aura and Terra missions to propose proposals for the 2023 final review of Earth science missions in their extended phase. The three spacecraft which were created…
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Dec
31
2022
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By Fredric M. Wiseman
ISRO to concentrate on science experiments, first human space flight for 2023

ISRO to concentrate on science experiments, first human space flight for 2023

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ISRO to concentrate on science experiments, first human space flight for 2023. It is expected that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will shift its research and development efforts to science in 2023, with specific projects to Sun (Aditya) as well as the Moon (Chandrayaan-3) while the startup market is poised to explode in the space applications sector. The coming year will witness a series of tests on India's first human space flight Gaganyaan. Gaganyaan with the first mission that is uncrewed expected to take place in the final quarter of 2023, aimed at testing the effectiveness of the launch…
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Dec
11
2022
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By Debbik S.
SPACEX OFFERS PRIVATE JAPANESE HKUTO-R MOONLANDER

SPACEX OFFERS PRIVATE JAPANESE HKUTO-R MOONLANDER

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SPACEX OFFERS PRIVATE JAPANESE HKUTO-R MOONLANDER SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched ispace's small Hakuto R M1 lunar lander towards the Moon after a delay of nearly two weeks. Liftoff occurred at 2:38 AM EST (7:38 UTC), Dec. 11, 2022 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. According to SpaceX's Twitter account, the launch was delayed in late November to allow for additional preflight checks. The Falcon 9 rocket launched the 750-pound (340 kilogram) lander into space. It did so in just 47 minutes and 53 minutes respectively. Both were placed in a ballistic lunar transfer…
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Nov
24
2022
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By Fredric M. Wiseman
NASA loses contact for 47 minutes with Artemis 1’s Orion satellite craft

NASA loses contact for 47 minutes with Artemis 1’s Orion satellite craft

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NASA loses contact for 47 minutes with Artemis 1's Orion  - NASA lost contact with its Orion moonbound capsule unexpectedly on Wednesday morning (Nov. 23), and the reasons are still unknown. Since its launch toward the moon on NASA's Artemis 1 mission last Wednesday (Nov. 16,) Orion has been performing well. This Wednesday, Nov. 23, brought a blip. Mission controllers lost communication at 1:09 AM EST (0609 GMT), while reconfiguring a link between Orion and the Deep Space Network (the set of radio dishes NASA uses to communicate with its farflung spacecraft). Cal City is looking for proposals for property…
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Nov
19
2022
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By Fredric M. Wiseman

Artemis 1’s Orion capsule is still on track for Monday’s moon flyby

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Artemis 1's Orion capsule is still on track for Monday's moon flyby - Artemis 1 team members stated that Orion performs even better in deep space than expected. NASA's Artemis 1 Orion capsule, which is designed to fly by the Moon on Monday (Nov 21), has exceeded expectations in deep space, according to agency officials. On Wednesday, Nov. 16, the Artemis 1 mission launched. It sent an uncrewed Orion towards the moon on a large Space Launch System (SLS), rocket. Orion is making his first ever journey beyond Earth orbit. However, the capsule has been performing checks like a veteran,…
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Oct
26
2022
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By Kevin Bonner
Scientists discover a ‘frightening’ extremely mysterious objects in space

Scientists discover a ‘frightening’ extremely mysterious objects in space

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Scientists discover a 'frightening' extremely mysterious objects in space An astronomers' group has written a new paper that describes the mystery of a distant object that does not fit into any scientific definitions, thus its mystery. The study, which was published in the journal of science Nature Astronomy earlier this week provides a fascinating neutron star thought to be the tiniest known neutron star to be discovered to date. According to the study this particular neutron star's radius is only 6.2 miles and weighs 77 percent of the mass of the Sun. This is highly odd considering that the majority…
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Sep
18
2022
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By Helen E. Blake
Can astronauts pass through the Van Allen belt?

Can astronauts pass through the Van Allen belt?

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The answers behind can astronauts pass through the Van Allen belt? Is answered in the article below. There's an imperceptible, attractive power field encompassing our planet, safeguarding us from the unsafe solar breezes that could demolish Earth. Yet, this defensive cover is likewise a whirling ring brimming with destructive radiation. Furthermore, to leave Earth's climate, space explorers need to go through it. The Van Allen belts are rings of vigorously charged particles that have been caught by Earth's magnetic field. So can astronauts pass through the Van Allen belt? When was the Van Allen belt discovered? It got its name…
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