biosentinel
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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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A Satellite That Launched Aboard SLS Is Already in Trouble
The launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 mission sent the Orion capsule on a journey to the Moon, in addition to 10 cubesats included as secondary payloads. The Space Launch System’s upper stage successfully deployed the tiny satellites yesterday, but one of them appears to be malfunctioning.