NASA’s next Mars rover has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for its launch to the Red Planet this July. Two Air Force C-17 Globemaster cargo planes carrying the Mars 2020 rover as well as the cruise stage, descent stage and Mars Helicopter touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at about 3 p.m. EST (12 p.m. PST) today, completing…
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‘Space unites us’: First Iranian-American astronaut reaches for stars
Jasmin “Jaws” Moghbeli earned her fierce nickname during her time as a decorated helicopter gunship pilot who flew more than 150 missions in Afghanistan. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-01-space-iranian-american-astronaut-stars.html…
‘Why I Finally Switched from Chrome to Firefox – and You Should Too’
In 2018 an associate technology editor at Fast Company’s Co.Design wrote an article titled “Why I’m switching from Chrome to Firefox and you should too.” Today shanen shared a similar article from Digital Trends. Their writer announces that after years of experimenting with both browsers, they’ve also finally switched from Chrome to Mozilla Firefox — “and you should too.” The biggest…
Rocket Lab Launches Highest Mission Yet To Put Astro Digital Satellite In Orbit
XXongo writes: Sometimes it seems that all the space news focuses on SpaceX, but another private rocket company, Rocket Lab, is also making history with their bargain-basement space launcher, the Electron. The Electron booster just completed its seventh launch, this time carrying a satellite to the highest orbit yet, 1000 km. The launch carried the Astro Digital “Corvus” satellite. At $5.7…
China’s Helicopter Prototype Looks Like a UFO
CNN has a story about a Chinese prototype helicopter that looks like a UFO. Slashdot reader ClickOnThis shares the report: China has been unveiling a lot of new weaponry lately, but one of their latest reveals looks really, well, out of this world. Called the “Super Great White Shark” by Chinese media, the aircraft conjures up images of 1950s sci-fi movies…
NASA’s Mars helicopter attached to Mars 2020 rover
Engineers attached NASA’s Mars Helicopter, which will be the first aircraft to fly on another planet, to the belly of the Mars 2020 rover today in the High Bay 1 clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-08-nasa-mars-helicopter-rover.html…
Meet a family of NASA space robots
NASA engineers are working on a new family of space robots that can roll, climb, and use artificial intelligence to navigate around obstacles in rough terrains on other worlds. Meet the family, here. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/nasa-space-robots-lemur-ice-worm-robosimian…
Flying on Saturn’s moon Titan: What we could discover with NASA’s new Dragonfly mission
Flying on other worlds is the next leap in the exploration of our solar system. The Mars Helicopter will piggyback on the NASA Mars 2020 rover mission to demonstrate the technology. But this is only the start. The real prize will be the Dragonfly mission in 2026, sending a drone to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan – as just announced by NASA….
‘Titans in a jar’ could answer key questions ahead of NASA’s space exploration
Researchers from Southern Methodist University (SMU) could help determine if Saturn’s icy moon—Titan—has ever been home to life long before NASA completes an exploratory visit to its surface by a drone helicopter. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-titans-jar-key-nasa-space.html…
US revamps volcano early warning system
There are 161 active volcanoes in the United States, more than 1/3 of which have been classified as posing a high threat to nearby communities. A new law aims to improve volcano monitoring. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/us-revamps-volcano-early-warning-system…