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Speedy Downloads: Why NASA Is Turning to Lasers For Next-Gen Space Comms

John Johnson Jr, Knowable Magazine 18/11/2023

Photo: NASA/Ben Smegelsky. NASA’s recently launched asteroid hunter, Psyche,...

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NASA Solar Probe Begins Second Orbit of Sun

The spacecraft has been delivering data from its instruments to Earth...

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India’s First Private Moon Rover Will Launch One Week Before $30m Deadline

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/11/2016

TeamIndus was founded in 2010 to become the first...

An image of Jupiter's diverse clouds taken by the New Horizons probe in 2007 (then en route to pluto). Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SWRI

NASA Juno Scientists Keen on Studying Water on Jupiter

Vasudevan Mukunth 06/07/2016

In a reddit AMA, scientists said that studying the...

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NASA Operators Manage to Bring K2 Out of Emergency Mode

The Wire Staff 12/04/2016

The reasons for why it happened aren't yet clear...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft, imaged by an artist. Credit: NASA

Planet-Hunting K2 Spacecraft in Trouble

The Wire Staff 09/04/2016

When K2 was last contacted on April 4, NASA...