Tag: Nasa
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Space 2018: best of the year
2018 has been another amazing year in terms of space exploration and rocket launches. Now that we’re almost at the end, I’d like to…
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Sources for your space exploration research.
Since I’m now deep down in my (non fiction) book about space (I’m due to submit to the publisher in a couple of weeks,…
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After Insight, Osiris-REX sees Bennu -finally!
After having started the week with the (truly amazing) landing of Insight on Mars, I close it with the news of another event not…
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Insight has landed. NASA’s historical mission is a success.
After a journey across space started in May of this year, Nasa’s InSight probe has landed tonight on Mars as planned, while the world held its breath.…
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Welcome back, Hubble!
Worries about Hubble’s operations have troubled the last month or so, at least since Friday, October 5, 2018, when the telescope was put into safe…
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Why Space X has to upscale its operations (hint: we want the ISS to keep on going)
In case you haven’t heard the news, that’s the story of the day: Soyuz, the Russian vector that since the retirement of the Space…
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Enter The Goblin, the planet that changed it all.
Do you remember the never-ending quest (and controversies) about the hypothetical Planet Nine (or Ten, depending on the way you count them)? Well, get…
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NASA win an Emmy Award
Among this week’s news, there’s one I believe especially worth sharing. NASA won this year’s Emmys in the category Outstanding Original Interactive Program with the…
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Space Features of the Week (12 August)
In the latest weeks I couldn’t do my usual science &space round-ups, so here it is, with some recent and less recent, but still…
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Jupiter’s New Moons
If you thought (like me) that Jupiter only had 65 moons, get ready to be surprised: according to NASA, there are (at least) 12…
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Wordbuilding -Creating your alien life
I have already written in the past about how alien (in the sense of odd) nature can possibly be. Today I’d like to explore the…
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Meet Ultima Thule, New Horizons’ Next Target
Everybody remembers New Horizons, right? The probe, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in January 2006, did a truly historic flyby of Pluto on July 14,…
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All eyes on Mars
Curiosity (NASA’s rover launched in 2011 and that landed on the Martian surface on August 6, 2012) keeps delivering. Today, NASA announced that the rover “has…
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Space Features of the Week (26 May)
It has been a while since I’ve done this, so I think a quick roundup of some interesting space and science features recently in…
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All is ready for Mars InSight Lander.
NASA’s next mission to Mars is a go, already on the launching pad. The probe is InSight Mars lander, which is scheduled to lift off from…
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Get to known Delta IV
There are plenty of news about Space X’s Falcon Heavy, the new heavy lifter for space exploration, with a reason: the endeavour is exceptional,…
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Exoplanet update
I regularly review features about exoplanets, together with giving periodical updates on their number and recent discoveries. Here for the latest stats: The catalogue…
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The Cartography of the Solar System – Mars
This is my second post about cartography and maps of other celestial bodies of the Solar System (the first one, the Moon, is here)…
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Vesta, and why we have a mission there
Vesta is a well-known place in terms of space exploration, but one people don’t necessarily know a lot about, let alone understand why NASA…
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Planet Nine (or X) makes the news again
It is not the first time I write about that mysterious object supposedly orbiting our Solar System (see previous articles here and here), mentioning the…
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Space Features of the Week (27 January)
I’ve recently seen a few interesting things in the press, so it’s the moment for another roundup of what’s happening in outer space (and…
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(Awesome) videos about space
I have recently come across some amazing videos – and here they are! Definitively worth watching. The first is a “visualization explores the Orion…
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2018 -what to look forward to (space-wise)
This year I’ve decided, for once, not to do any New Year Resolutions. After all, I’ve started 2018 in bed with strong flu and…
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Best of 2017 (astro) news
At -2 (or 1, depending on which part of the globe you’re based) to 2018, it’s the moment for a quick recap of 2017…