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NASA’s exoplanet hunter TESS spots a record-breaking 3-star system

NASA Space Technology Using NASA’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), scientists have spotted a record-breaking triple-star system so tightly bound that it could fit comfortably between the sun and its closest planet, Mercury. The system, designated TIC 290061484 contains twin stars that race around each other once every 1.8 Earth days as […]

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Concludes Space Station Scientific Mission

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Concludes Space Station Scientific Mission

Technology tamfitronics NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin are returning to Earth after months aboard the International Space Station conducting scientific experiments and technology demonstrations for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission. The four launched on March 3 aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center […]

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Liftoff! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Launches to International Space Station

Liftoff! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Launches to International Space Station

NASA Space Technology The two crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission launched at 1:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station. This is the first human spaceflight mission launched from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, and the agency’s ninth commercial crew rotation mission […]

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NASA’s Record-Breaking Laser Demo Completes Mission

NASA’s Record-Breaking Laser Demo Completes Mission

NASA Space Technology NASA’s TBIRD (TeraByte InfraRed Delivery) demonstration and its host spacecraft — the PTD-3 (Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-3) — have completed their technology demonstration. The TBIRD payload spent the past two years breaking world records for the fastest satellite downlink from space using laser communications. NASA’s PTD series leverages a common commercial spacecraft to […]

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NASA’s newly unfurled solar sail has started ‘tumbling’ end-over-end in orbit, surprising observations show

NASA’s newly unfurled solar sail has started ‘tumbling’ end-over-end in orbit, surprising observations show

NASA Space Technology An artist’s interpretation of NASA’s fully-deployed Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) in orbit around Earth.(Image credit: NASA) A NASA spacecraft that recently unfurled a state-of-the-art solar sail in Earth orbit is “tumbling or wobbling” through space as it circles our planet, new observations show. NASA representatives told Live Science that the […]

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