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World’s Largest Hydrogen Tank Will Make It Easier for NASA to Launch SLS Megarocket
Preparations for the crewed Artemis 2 trip to the Moon are in full swing, with NASA rolling-out various fixes, upgrades, and new technologies to support the mission, which could happen as soon as 2024. Among the more exciting developments are a gigantic new hydrogen fuel tank and an updated escape system that harkens back to…
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Engineers Are Racing to Salvage a Cubesat That Launched With NASA’s Moon Mission
A mission to measure lunar water-ice on the Moon is in jeopardy after the cubesat failed to fire its engines shortly after launch. Time is now running out, as the team has until mid-January to fix the spacecraft’s thrusters and give it a second chance to enter lunar orbit.
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Follow Along With NASA’s First Deep Space Biology Experiment
BioSentinel, a first-of-its-kind experiment from NASA, is carrying living organisms over 1.6 million kilometres into deep space to test the long-term effects of cosmic radiation on living things — in this case, yeast. NASA has unveiled a new real-time visualisation tool so the public can follow along with BioSentinel’s progress.
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NASA Hid These Easter Eggs for Space Nerds on the Artemis 1 Orion Capsule
Following its trip to the Moon and back, NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down into the Pacific Ocean on Sunday. The inaugural flight for the Artemis program may have been uncrewed, but Orion carried five souvenirs to honour a legacy of lunar exploration.