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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...
Scientific American3d
Asteroid Bennu Is Packed with Life’s Building Blocks, New Studies Confirm
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
Step Into the Future: NASA’s Synthetic Universe Brings Roman’s Vision to Life
Scientists have created over a million simulated cosmic images using the power of supercomputers to anticipate the capabilities of NASA’s upcoming Roman Space Telescope. These synthetic images allow ...
Aviation Week15d
Nuclear Reactor Test Requirements Put DRACO Launch Plans On Hold
The DARPA-NASA nuclear thermal propulsion project is extending its time frame for an on-orbit demonstration. Credit: Lockheed Martin A vision to accelerate U.S. access to cislunar space and the ...
The Indian Express15d
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket on first test flight
New Glenn is the latest in a series of big, new rockets to launch in recent years, including United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan, Europe’s upgraded Ariane 6 and NASA’s Space Launch System or SLS, the ...
NBC New York15d
SpaceX loses Starship mid-flight, but catches booster again after launch
At its base are 33 Raptor engines, which together produce 16.7 million pounds of thrust — about double the 8.8 million pounds of thrust of NASA's Space Launch System rocket, which launched for ...
WPXI15d
Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket reaches orbit on first test flight
New Glenn is the latest in a series of big, new rockets to launch in recent years, including United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan, Europe’s upgraded Ariane 6 and NASA's Space Launch System or SLS ...