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Juice radar shows lunar mapping success in Apollo Earthrise region
When ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) performed a lunar flyby in August 2024, its Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) captured its first radargram by listening to radio echoes bouncing off the Moon's surface. The data, tracing surface elevation with a vivid pink-to-yellow line against a dark purple backdrop, aligned closely with NASA's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) elevation mod ExoMars completes successful Earth test of record breaking parachutes
The most advanced parachute system ever developed for Mars landings has passed a critical high-altitude Earth test, safely decelerating a replica ExoMars landing module. The system, featuring the largest parachute ever tested for extraterrestrial use, was deployed from 29 km above Sweden's Arctic Circle using a helium balloon launched from the Esrange Space Center on July 7.
The test simul Brines may form from seasonal frost on Mars study finds
Recent research led by Vincent Chevrier of the University of Arkansas offers new evidence that brines-salt-rich liquid water-could form on the Martian surface under specific seasonal conditions. Drawing on decades of research, Chevrier used atmospheric data from NASA's Viking 2 lander alongside advanced computer simulations to demonstrate that seasonal frost could briefly melt, creating small qu SpaceX scrubs launch of 2 SES mPOWER satellites
SpaceX scrubbed the launch of two O3b mPOWER satellites for Luxembourg-based SES on Monday from Cape Canaveral Space Station.
The Falcon 9 was scheduled to lift off at 5:27 p.m. from Pad 40 but, with 11 seconds on the countdown clock, it was aborted.
During the SpaceX webcast, a launch director said: "T-minus 15 seconds" and was followed by "hold, hold, hold."
A reason for Lunar soil shows promise for in-situ oxygen and fuel production
Scientists have developed a new method to extract water from lunar soil and use it to generate oxygen and fuel, offering a potential path toward sustainable life-support systems on the Moon. The technology, described in the Cell Press journal Joule on July 16, combines water extraction and photothermal CO2 conversion in a single step to reduce resource transport needs from Earth.
"This int NASA tests innovative technique for super-cold fuel storage
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Deepening Stirling engine analysis: Optimized model offers more accurate performance predictions
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'Democratizing space' is more than just adding new players
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How NASA saved a camera from 370 million miles away
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NASA tests scalable satellite tech to launch sensors more quickly
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