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NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft Is Speaking Gibberish
NASA’s iconic space probe is having trouble communicating with its home planet due to a computer glitch, forcing engineers to resort to decades-old manuals to come up with a way to fix the 46-year-old mission. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is now more than 24 billion kilometres away from Earth. The spacecraft has been exploring the…
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NASA’s First Crewed Lunar Landing Since Apollo May Not Happen Until 2027
Fresh footprints on the Moon aren’t likely to happen in 2025 as NASA hoped. A new report warns of significant delays to the Artemis 3 mission, the result of two key contractors—SpaceX and Axiom Space—not being able to deliver the goods on time. The latest Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, published November 30, highlights major…
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Glitching Hubble Puts Science Missions on Hold
NASA is addressing an issue with a Hubble Space Telescope gyroscope that prompted the observatory to enter safe mode on November 23. Science operations have been suspended as a result, but the space agency doesn’t seem too worried. Hubble, launched on April 24, 1990, and renowned for its significant contributions to astronomy, is experiencing a…
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The Most Mind-Blowing Images Ever Taken of Earth from Space
We’ve been capturing space-based images of Earth for nearly three-quarters of a century, but these eight views of Earth are each profound in their own way. Images of Earth from space are now so commonplace that it’s hard to fathom the pre-spaceflight era—a time when people were forced to use their imaginations instead. The first…