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Hayabusa2 has been eyeing Ryugu since mid-2018 when it first began creeping up on the asteroid that floats between Earth and Mars in an elliptical orbit. The craft finally touched down on the roughly 3,168-feet in diameter space rock on Friday morning Japanese time and fired a bullet-like device into its surface to collect asteroid …
ESA’s planet-defending Hera mission will set a new record in space. The asteroid investigator will not only be the first spacecraft to explore a binary asteroid system – the Didymos pair – but the smaller of these two worldlets, comparable in size to Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza, will become the smallest asteroid ever visited. …
To land the kind of heavy spaceships that can carry human astronauts to Mars, engineers will need new methods to touch down. As humans get more ambitious with their plans for exploring Mars, we’re going to need to land bigger spacecraft on its surface. Up until now, NASA’s robotic missions have used parachutes, inflatable bubbles, …
NASA has officially declared an end to the mission of the six-wheeled rover on Mars. Opportunity lost power in a dust storm last June, and all efforts to make contact have failed. “Our beloved Opportunity remained silent,” Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said Wednesday at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, …
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FREMONT, Calif. — The twin cubesats that played a key role in NASA’s most recent Mars lander mission have been out of contact with the Earth for more than a month, suggesting their trailblazing mission has come to an end. In a Feb. 5 statement, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said that it not heard from …
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HPO is an astronomy application in C# wich helps astronomers manage and organize their observatories. Calculating many astronomical parameters to record astronomical phenomena has always been very time consuming using the traditional methods. HPO application is changing the game in this field. With a wealth of tools, helps the amateur astronomer calculate and record scientific …
