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A solar-powered rocket Could be our ticket into interstellar Distance

Expand (charge: Haitong Yu When Jason Benkoski is correct, the route to interstellar space starts in a delivery container tucked from a lab high bay from Maryland. The setup seems like something from a low-budget sci-fi movie: A single wall of this container is lined with a huge number of LEDs, an inscrutable metallic trellis […]

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SpaceX, NASA plan next Business Cab into the space station this weekend

NASA will establish four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule that weekend at the provider’s very first regular crew turning to the lunar laboratory. The excursion, three weeks following SpaceX finished a high-profile trial conducted, will start a new age in human spaceflight for NASA since commercial companies start dominating U.S. assignments from low-earth orbit. […]

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NASA plans {} network Around the moon

Nokia was selected by NASA to construct the very first ever mobile network around the moon. The telecommunications company said on Monday that the partnership will produce a route toward”sustainable human existence to the lunar surface,” and also is going to lead to the very first LTE/4G communications program in distance. Nokia’s Bell Labs unit […]

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Chitin May be used to Assemble tools and habitats Around Mars, Research finds

Expand / scientists mixed chitin–a natural polymer present in abundance in arthropods, in addition to fish scales–using a mineral which reproduces the properties of Martian soil to produce a workable new substance for building shelters and tools on Mars. (charge: Javier G. Fernandez) Space aficionados that dream about a single day colonizing Mars should grapple […]