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SpaceX Plans To Develop 'Marslink' Network To Provide Internet On Mars
SpaceX has introduced a Marslink concept, a satellite-based communication network around Mars, to support interplanetary data exchange for future Mars missions. NASA reviewed this and other proposals, including Blue Origin's Blue Ring orbital tug and Lockheed Martin's MAVEN-based network. The Marslink network would build on SpaceX’s Starlink tech...
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NASA Engineers Restore Voyager 1 Communications After 15 Billion-Mile Transmission Disruption
NASA successfully reconnected with Voyager 1 after an unexpected communication disruption caused by a shutdown of the spacecraft’s primary transmitter. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California pinpointed the cause as Voyager’s fault protection system, which manages power by shutting down non-essential systems. With a second...
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Could Severely Damage Ground-Based Radio Telescopes, Says Study
Elon Musk's Starlink satellites are causing significant disruption for astronomers worldwide. Scientists from the Netherlands, particularly the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), have reported that the growing network of Starlink satellites is interfering with radio waves used for vital space research. The satellites, designed to p...
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NASA Captures Images Of Large Asteroids That Zipped By Earth
On June 27th, asteroid 2011 UL21 made its closest recorded approach to Earth, passing by at a safe distance of 17 times the Earth-Moon distance.
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2011 AG5: Oblong Asteroid As Big As Empire State Building Passes Earth
On February 3, the asteroid came quite close to Earth before leaving at a safe distance of 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers).
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Investor Network FAAD Gets Approval To Launch Rs 300 Crore Fund
The network will build the war chest in the coming months to invest across sectors in early-stage startups with special focus on healthtech, agritech, deep tech, and cleantech space, FAAD said.
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Chandrayaan-2: NASA Reportedly Joins ISRO’s Attempts to Contact Vikram
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is continuing its attempt to reach out to India's moon lander sending communication signals with its Deep Space Network (DSN), said officials.
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How NASA Is Trying To Get Chandrayaan Lander To "Communicate With Home"
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is continuing its attempt to reach out to India's moon lander sending communication signals with its Deep Space Network (DSN), said officials.
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11-Year-Old Mission Ends As NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Goes Silent
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending an 11-year-old historic mission to explore the two largest bodies in the main asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres, the US space agency said.
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Cassini Spacecraft's First Dive Between Saturn And Its Rings Successful
Cassini's first-ever dive through the narrow gap between the planet Saturn and its rings on April 26 was successful and the spacecraft is now in the process of beaming back science and engineering data collected during its passage, NASA said on Thursday.
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New Horizons Probe Healthy After Hiccup, NASA Says
"Our rapid recovery was supported by other NASA missions that provided New Horizons with some of their valuable Deep Space Network antenna time."
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Asteroid To Say Hello To Santa This Christmas Eve
NASA scientists have generated the highest-resolution images to date of an Asteroid that will safely fly past Earth on the Christmas eve at a distance of 11 million km.
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NASA's New Worry: Traffic Jams. Near Mars.
With an increasing number of space missions bound for Mars, NASA is now making efforts to avoid a traffic jam.
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NASA Captures Earth Flyby of 'Space Peanut'
NASA scientists have captured a peanut-shaped asteroid that approached close to Earth last weekend. The next time an asteroid will approach Earth this close will be in 2054.
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Asteroid That Flew Past Earth Has Small Moon
The asteroid that flew past the Earth January 26 has its own small moon, NASA said.
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SpaceX Plans To Develop 'Marslink' Network To Provide Internet On Mars
SpaceX has introduced a Marslink concept, a satellite-based communication network around Mars, to support interplanetary data exchange for future Mars missions. NASA reviewed this and other proposals, including Blue Origin's Blue Ring orbital tug and Lockheed Martin's MAVEN-based network. The Marslink network would build on SpaceX’s Starlink tech...
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NASA Engineers Restore Voyager 1 Communications After 15 Billion-Mile Transmission Disruption
NASA successfully reconnected with Voyager 1 after an unexpected communication disruption caused by a shutdown of the spacecraft’s primary transmitter. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California pinpointed the cause as Voyager’s fault protection system, which manages power by shutting down non-essential systems. With a second...
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Could Severely Damage Ground-Based Radio Telescopes, Says Study
Elon Musk's Starlink satellites are causing significant disruption for astronomers worldwide. Scientists from the Netherlands, particularly the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), have reported that the growing network of Starlink satellites is interfering with radio waves used for vital space research. The satellites, designed to p...
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NASA Captures Images Of Large Asteroids That Zipped By Earth
On June 27th, asteroid 2011 UL21 made its closest recorded approach to Earth, passing by at a safe distance of 17 times the Earth-Moon distance.
-
2011 AG5: Oblong Asteroid As Big As Empire State Building Passes Earth
On February 3, the asteroid came quite close to Earth before leaving at a safe distance of 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers).
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Investor Network FAAD Gets Approval To Launch Rs 300 Crore Fund
The network will build the war chest in the coming months to invest across sectors in early-stage startups with special focus on healthtech, agritech, deep tech, and cleantech space, FAAD said.
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Chandrayaan-2: NASA Reportedly Joins ISRO’s Attempts to Contact Vikram
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is continuing its attempt to reach out to India's moon lander sending communication signals with its Deep Space Network (DSN), said officials.
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How NASA Is Trying To Get Chandrayaan Lander To "Communicate With Home"
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is continuing its attempt to reach out to India's moon lander sending communication signals with its Deep Space Network (DSN), said officials.
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11-Year-Old Mission Ends As NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Goes Silent
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending an 11-year-old historic mission to explore the two largest bodies in the main asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres, the US space agency said.
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Cassini Spacecraft's First Dive Between Saturn And Its Rings Successful
Cassini's first-ever dive through the narrow gap between the planet Saturn and its rings on April 26 was successful and the spacecraft is now in the process of beaming back science and engineering data collected during its passage, NASA said on Thursday.
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New Horizons Probe Healthy After Hiccup, NASA Says
"Our rapid recovery was supported by other NASA missions that provided New Horizons with some of their valuable Deep Space Network antenna time."
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Asteroid To Say Hello To Santa This Christmas Eve
NASA scientists have generated the highest-resolution images to date of an Asteroid that will safely fly past Earth on the Christmas eve at a distance of 11 million km.
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NASA's New Worry: Traffic Jams. Near Mars.
With an increasing number of space missions bound for Mars, NASA is now making efforts to avoid a traffic jam.
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NASA Captures Earth Flyby of 'Space Peanut'
NASA scientists have captured a peanut-shaped asteroid that approached close to Earth last weekend. The next time an asteroid will approach Earth this close will be in 2054.
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Asteroid That Flew Past Earth Has Small Moon
The asteroid that flew past the Earth January 26 has its own small moon, NASA said.
