The 1960s Tech Keeping NASA’s Voyager Probes Alive for Nearly 50 Years
Solar panels are next to useless in the outer solar system, so NASA’s Voyager probes rely on nuclear batteries—technology ...
NCAA March Madness: 99.99% Of Brackets Now Busted On Second Day Of Tournament
The odds of achieving a perfect bracket for the college basketball tournament are about 1 in 9.22 quintillion.
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'We should be living on Mars by now!' Red Planet and Voyager 1's Pale Blue Dot steal the spotlight in NYC rock show
Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...
Cuts to NASA’s budget could derail America’s Mars ambitions
Such major and arbitrary cuts to NASA’s budget would do very little to save money, but they will undercut and decimate one of ...
Assault at Antarctic base could be a warning for future travellers to Mars
A tense situation among members of an isolated base in Antarctica could foretell conflicts among astronauts on a long ...
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NASA Is Planning to Shut Down Another Piece of Voyager 2
In an effort to conserve Voyager 2's dwindling energy and extend the spacecraft's mission, NASA has shut down another of its ...
Radioisotope generators—inside the 'nuclear batteries' that power faraway spacecraft
Powering spacecraft with solar energy may not seem like a challenge, given how intense the sun's light can feel on Earth.
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Cuts to NASA’s budget could derail America’s Mars ambitions
These programs include the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, the Voyager probes, all our orbiters and rovers at Mars and dozens of other missions. Continued robotic missions ...
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SpaceX will send the first humanoid robot to Mars next year
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has stated that SpaceX will launch the first humanoid robot to Mars next year, and if that goes well, ...