China's Tianwen 2 Probe to Undertake Ambitious Asteroid and Comet Mission
Tuesday, 02 July 2024 22:02
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China's Tianwen 2 probe is set to launch on a Long March 3B rocket in May 2025. This ambitious mission aims to return samples from a near-Earth asteroid and then explore a comet, marking a significant step in space exploration.
The probe's first target is the near-Earth asteroid 469219, also known as Kamo'oalewa in Hawaiian. Tianwen 2 will conduct remote sensing to identify potential landi Mapping Mars with Open Science Tools
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Mars rovers uncover new discoveries through careful decision-making by scientists. The Mars 2020 mission focuses on Jezero Crater's geology and searching for signs of ancient microbial life with the Perseverance rover. Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California utilized innovative mapping methods to guide both the rover and the Ingenuity helicopter, using open-s University of Michigan wins NASA's lunar lander challenge award
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The University of Michigan may have topped its college football title with an out-of-this-world science challenge win.
NASA named its team as the winner of its 2024 Human Lander Challenge at a forum in Huntsville, Ala., on Friday.
Michigan beat out 11 other universities throughout the United States who made presentations in front of NASA and space industry experts addressing the Robotic rover could support astronauts on moonwalks
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Robotic companions are a mainstay of sci-fi series everywhere. From R2D2 to Johnny 5, these characters typically have a supporting role in the story and are helpful to their human companions. But what if they were integral to the humans in the story? So much so that they couldn't live without their robotic compatriots?
That's the idea behind Biobot, which was given a NIAC grant in 2018—why not use a robotic companion to carry supporting equipment on human extravehicular activities (EVAs) on other planets?
If you watch the footage from the Apollo missions, you can see how awkward it is for the astronauts to bend over to pick things up. Also, these extraordinarily naturally fit and gifted people seem to fall over an awful lot, given how coordinated they are on Earth. That's probably because of a 61 kg pack on their back that is helping to keep them alive.
Each moonwalker had to carry a life support system on their suit to maintain conditions inside the suit that allowed them to breathe and not cook to death.
NASA Stennis achieves primary success for historic in-space mission
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NASA's Stennis Space Center and partner Sidus Space Inc. announced primary mission success July 2 for the center's historic in-space mission—an autonomous systems payload aboard an orbiting satellite.
"Our ASTRA (Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications) payload is active and operational," NASA Stennis Center Director John Bailey said. "This is an incredible achievement for Stennis, our first-ever in-space mission flying on a new state-of-the-art satellite.
Mission success: HERA crew successfully completes 45-day simulated journey to Mars
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Four dedicated explorers—Jason Lee, Stephanie Navarro, Shareef Al Romaithi, and Piyumi Wijesekara—just returned from a 45-day simulated journey to Mars, testing the boundaries of human endurance and teamwork within NASA's HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog) habitat at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Their groundbreaking work on HERA's Campaign 7 Mission 2 contributes to NASA's efforts to study how future astronauts may react to isolation and confinement during deep-space journeys.
Throughout their mission, the crew conducted operational tasks and participated in 18 human health studies. These studies focused on behavioral health, team dynamics, and human-system interfaces, with seven being collaborative efforts with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the European Space Agency.
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New satellite to show how AI advances Earth observation
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Artificial intelligence technologies have achieved remarkable successes and continue to show their value as backbones in scientific research and real-world applications.
ESA’s new Φsat-2 mission, launching in the coming weeks, will push the boundaries of AI for Earth observation – demonstrating the transformative potential of AI for space technology.
