space

Why NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Uses Nuclear Energy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 30, 2020
Radioactive plutonium is crucial for keeping this and other power-hungry deep-space missions warm and working for years on end

By David Aragorn
NASA Announces The Next Astronauts To Fly On SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Spacecraft In 2021 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 30, 2020
NASA has announced the astronauts that will fly on the third crewed SpaceX mission, revealing a multi-national crew of four that will travel to the International Space Station (ISS).

By David Aragorn
Martian dreams: Mars probe part of Alberta scientist’s childhood dream 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 29, 2020
A Canadian scientist says helping NASA with a mission to Mars to look for signs of life is the fulfillment of a childhood dream.

By David Aragorn
A black hole circling a wormhole would emit weird gravitational waves 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 29, 2020
Hypothetical tunnels in spacetime could show up in LIGO and Virgo data

By David Aragorn
Mysterious meteorites came from an asteroid with a liquid metal core 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 28, 2020
Most meteorites that fall to Earth belong to one of two broad groups – there are rocky ones, and there are metallic ones that were once molten iron. But one puzzling group of meteorites appears to belong to both camps at once, and now scientists have determined that the parent body had a rocky shell and a liquid metal core, which likely generated a strong magnetic field.

By David Aragorn
Nasa Mars rover: How Perseverance will hunt for signs of past life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 28, 2020
Nasa’s Perseverance rover, due to launch to Mars this summer, will search an ancient crater lake for signs of past life. But if biology ever emerged on the Red Planet, how will scientists recognise it? Here, deputy project scientist Ken Williford explains what they’re looking for.

By David Aragorn
NASA camera spots China’s Tianwen-1 Mars spacecraft speeding away from Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 28, 2020
Spacecraft or space rock?

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover gets its nuclear power source 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 25, 2020
The nuclear power generator for NASA’s Perseverance rover has been installed on the spacecraft atop an Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral, and mission managers gave a green light Wednesday to continue preparations for the rover’s July 30 launch.

By David Aragorn
China launches its first unmanned mission to Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 25, 2020
China successfully launched an unmanned probe to Mars on Thursday in its first independent mission to another planet, in a display of its technological prowess and ambition to join an elite club of space-faring nations.

By David Aragorn
Spacewatch: Nasa delays James Webb space telescope to October 2021 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 24, 2020
Delay is result of coronavirus pandemic and technical challenges as troubled project is set to cost £6.8bn

By David Aragorn