space
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What Are Asteroids Made Of?
Just over 12 months ago, we were sitting at Woomera, in the Australian outback, waiting for a streak of light in the sky to testify that the Hayabusa2 spacecraft had returned from its voyage to collect a little piece of a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. Unfortunately for us, it was cloudy in Woomera that day…
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Swinburne Gets a New Out of This World Supercomputer
Swinburne is designing and installing a new space-focused supercomputer with the support of $5.2 million in funding from the Victorian government.
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The Dream Chaser Spaceship Promises ‘Orbital Reef’ Tourism for Mere Mortals
The Dream Chaser Space Plane is set to support missions to the ISS and space tourism by the end of the decade.
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Material From Asteroid Ryugu Starts To Give Up Secrets of Early Solar System
Just over a year ago, material from the Japanese Hayabusa 2 mission to Asteroid (162173) Ryugu arrived back on Earth . And this week, the first two papers reporting analysis of the material have been published in Nature Astronomy. Excitingly, they suggest we may be on the brink of discovering whether water and organic material,…