NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Provides Front-Row Seat to Landing, First Audio Recording of Red Planet
Sunday, 21 February 2021 21:43
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New video from NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface of Mars. A microphone on the rover also has provided the first audio recording of sounds from Mars.
From the moment of parachute inflation, the c NASA releases first video of Perseverance rover landing on Mars
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NASA releases first audio from Mars, video of landing
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Sunday, 21 February 2021 19:37Galileo/GNSS vacancies at ESA
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We are looking for Global Navigation Satellite System experts to join our team and support the design and development of the next generation of satellites for Europe’s GNSS System, Galileo. If you have experience in GNSS systems, space systems, project planning or Galileo architecture read on to find out more.
Pentagon chief Austin stands behind Air Force amid investigation of Space Command basing decision
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has issued a statement in support of the U.S. Air Force’s handling of the basing decision for U.S. Space Command, his spokesman said.
Austin’s statement follows an announcement Feb.
Pentagon chief Austin stands behind Air Force amid probe of Space Command basing decision
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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has issued a statement in support of the U.S. Air Force’s handling of the basing decision for U.S. Space Command, his spokesman said.
Austin’s statement follows an announcement Feb.
To defend the high frontier, Space Force wants digitally minded troops
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If fighter pilots are the rock stars of the Air Force, it could be said that software coders and app developers are the fighter jocks of the Space Force.
“Software touches everything we do in the Space Force,” said 1st Lt.
Big ideas in small packages: The seeds and worms making their way to the ISS
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On Feb. 20, 2021, Northrop Grumman will launch its Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard an Antares rocket to deliver several tons of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station for its 15th resupply mission (CRS-15). Included in these bulky supplies will be a handful of items that weigh no more than a few grams—a sampling of seeds, some microscopic proteins, and a few small worms. Yet it is these tiny organisms that may yield the biggest impact to this mission, affecting the future of space travel while delivering life altering benefits to those of us still on Earth.
Three experiments, sponsored by NASA's Biological and Physical Sciences Division, focus on the diversity of space biology and physical sciences:
Bone cancer survivor to join billionaire on SpaceX flight
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General Atomics selects Firefly to launch NASA Earth science instrument
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WASHINGTON — General Atomics selected Firefly Aerospace to launch a small Earth science satellite for NASA on an Alpha rocket in 2022.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems announced Feb. 18 that it will launch its Orbital Test Bed (OTB) 2 satellite on Firefly’s Alpha rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
How to use space to conserve history
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Space can help to identify historic landscapes and conserve cultural buildings. Find out how by joining a free ESA digital workshop introduced by UNESCO’s chief cultural heritage manager alongside ESA's director general.
Mars dust devils in action
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Mars dust devils in action Mars helicopter reports in, New color images available
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Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have received the first status report from the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which landed Feb. 18, 2021, at Jezero Crater attached to the belly of the agency's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.
The downlink, which arrived at 3:30 p.m. PST (6:30 p.m. EST) via a connection through the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, indicat Space for all is this student's goal
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The latest NASA rover, scheduled to land on Mars tomorrow after traveling more than six months in interplanetary space, is carrying with it a special instrument called MOXIE. About the size of a car battery, MOXIE will inhale carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere and transform it into a breath of oxygen.
That's the plan, at any rate. On Earth, Maya Nasr and other members of the MOXIE