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Meet VIPER, NASA’s New Water-Hunting, Crater-Crushing Lunar Rover
Conceptual image of VIPER. Image: NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter Equipped with headlights and a suite of powerful instruments, NASA’s VIPER is…
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Ingenuity’s Next Flight on Mars Could Be Its Most Interesting Yet
An illustration of the indomitable Martian helicopter Ingenuity.Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech The flimsy-looking but impressively tenacious Ingenuity has booked its sixth flight on…
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European Space Agency Lays Out Plans for a Lunar Satellite Network
A mock-up of the Heracles lunar lander, slated to head to the moon in the late 2020s.Illustration: ESA/ATG Medialab The…
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SpaceX Lays Out Plan for First Starship Orbital Test Flight
Conceptual image of a Starship launch involving both stages of the reuseable system. Image: SpaceX SpaceX has demonstrated its ability…
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China’s ‘Zhurong’ Rover Is About to Land on Mars
Artist’s impression of the Tianwen-1 lander. Image: Xinhua Later today, China will attempt to become just the second country to…
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Google Cloud Teams Up With SpaceX in Satellite Internet Connectivity Deal
Photo: Jim Watson (Getty Images) Google announced Thursday that it’s partnering with SpaceX to link Elon Musk’s ambitious satellite internet…
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With Ingenuity Out of the Way, Perseverance Rover Gets Cracking on Real Martian Science
Rocks imaged last month by Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS As NASA’s little helicopter whirred off to its new airfield on Mars,…
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NASA Scolds China After Out-of-Control Rocket Lands in Ocean
A Long March 5B rocket in 2020.Photo: STR/AFP (Getty Images) After days of fretting over when and where an out-of-control…
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To No One’s Surprise, Elon Musk Talked About Dogecoin on SNL
One of the most anticipated and hyped moments of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s appearance on Saturday Night Live…
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Ingenuity Helicopter Nails 5th Flight and Begins New Mission
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s fifth flight was captured on May 7, 2021 by one of the navigation cameras aboard the…
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