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Europe unveils mini nuclear system for moon rovers on extreme lunar missions
The RPS uses two Stirling engines to convert the heat generated by the decay of Plutonium-238 (Pu-238) into electricity.
NASA JPL’s 2025 Missions: Pioneering the Next Era of Exploration
NASA JPL is diving into an eventful 2025 with ambitious space missions despite challenges like the Eaton Fire. Exciting ...
Cleveland’s NASA Glenn Research Center tied to Blue Origin launch experiment
NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has ties to Tuesday morning's Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launch from the ...
Last ice age quiz: How much do you know about Earth's frosty past?
How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking ...
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Falcon 9 rocket launches iSpace and Firefly Space lander on its way to the moon
Two new moon dwellers are on their way: on January 15, a Falcon 9 launch vehicle from SpaceX took off with two lunar landers from ... the Resilience lander has a food production experiment on ...
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Chinese New Year 2025: Year of the Snake and Lunar New Year traditions
Lunar New Year — also commonly called Chinese New Year — marks the start of the new year based on lunar calendars, or monthly cycles of the moon's phases. The lunar new year starts with the ...
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Two lunar landers are on the way to the Moon after SpaceX’s double moonshot
The two robotic lunar ... from the lander's instruments. The landing by Intuitive Machines marked the first successful soft landing on the Moon by a US spacecraft since the last Apollo mission ...
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Preparing Final Saturn Rocket For Flight
In the nearby Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB), the Apollo prime crew of Commander Thomas Stafford, Command Module Pilot Vance Brand ... During launch, the DM rested inside the Spacecraft ...
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2 private lunar landers head toward the moon in a roundabout journey
It's take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the moon two years ago. This time, it has a rover on board with a scoop to gather up lunar ... to Apollo, aims to get ...
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50 Years Ago: Preparing the Final Saturn Rocket for Flight
In the nearby Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB), the Apollo prime crew of Commander Thomas Stafford, Command Module Pilot Vance Brand ... During launch, the DM rested inside the Spacecraft ...
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U.S. private lunar lander to reach moon in early March
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on the way to the moon aboard a commercial lunar lander launched earlier Wednesday. The ...
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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launches two moon missions. All you need to know
In a statement, the Elon Musk-owned company noted that the Falcon 9 rocket launched Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 and Japan-based company Ispace’s RESILIENCE lunar lander. It added that a ...