Five things to know about how NASA's tiny twin polar satellites will study the Arctic and Antarctic

Twin shoebox-size climate satellites will soon be studying two of the most remote regions on Earth: the Arctic and Antarctic. The NASA mission will measure the amount of heat the planet emits into ... Read More

Rocket Lab launches NASA's solar sail technology into orbit

April 23 (UPI) --Rocket Lab launched NASA's new composite solar sail into space where it will undergo weeks of testing, using ... satellites in orbit to just over 6,000. Science News // 3 days ... Read More

Tiny satellites can provide significant information about space

CubeSats are satellites constructed of cubic units, or U, a bit smaller than a square tissue box, or about 10 centimeters (about 4 inches) on each side. (A 2U CubeSat, for instance, is about the size ... Read More

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days after a court approved an injunction to ban the song in the city ABC News’ Zohreen Shah embeds with a UCLA business class that’s ditching textbooks and texts, instead using an AI software ... Read More

NASA wants to come up with a new clock for the moon, where seconds tick away faster

WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA wants to come ... as it now with GPS, satellites and intricate computer and communications systems, he said. Those microseconds matter when high tech systems interact ... Read More

Nasa's about to lose its eyes on Earth & scientists are worried

An undated image captured by the Terra satellite shows the collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica Sometime in the next few years - no one knows exactly when - three Nasa satellites ... Read More

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NASA re-establishes communication with Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft that went silent for months

NASA and Voyager 1 are communicating back and forth again, after the most distant human-made object in space stopped sending usable data back to the space agency nearly five months ago. NASA’s ... Read More

Nasa satellite's 'shocking' space junk near-miss was even closer than thought

Nasa's TIMED spacecraft and the defunct Russian spy satellite Cosmos 2221 experienced an alarmingly close encounter in orbit, space.com reported. Initial estimates suggested that the two ... Read More

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New Sensor Detects Errors in MRI Scans May 2, 2024 — A new prototype sensor is capable of detecting errors in MRI scans using laser light ... of Biology and Technology Apr. 30, 2024 — Organic ... Read More

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