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Repair kit for NASA"s NICER mission heading to space station

NASA will deliver a patch kit for NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, on the agency's Northrop Grumman 21st commercial resupply mission. Astronauts will conduct a spacewalk to com.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgJul 30th, 2024

India approves development of reusable launcher, space station module

The Indian government has approved $2.7 billion in new spending for its space program. Enlarge / Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma and Virendra Sachdeva, two members of Narendra Modi's ruling BJP party, celebrate the landing of India's C.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated News3 hr. 54 min. ago

Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel after decades of debate

Now you can run your space laser or audio production without specialty patches. Enlarge / Cutting metal with lasers is hard, but even harder when you don't know the worst-case timings of your code. (credit: Getty Images).....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated News7 hr. 22 min. ago

You can now charge your General Motors EV at a Tesla Supercharger

Owners of a General Motors-built EV can now charge at any Tesla Supercharger station after buying an adapter......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated News9 hr. 22 min. ago

Artemis I mission data show astronauts sent to the moon aboard Orion will be protected from radiation

According to a large team of technical and health specialists, astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft will be well protected from radiation when the Artemis II mission travels to the moon and back next year......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated News12 hr. 21 min. ago

NASA watches a peanut-shaped asteroid drift past Earth

Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly shaped asteroids that recently passed by Earth, and both look like over-sized peanuts......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated News12 hr. 54 min. ago

London sparkles in astronaut’s gorgeous night shot from the ISS

A gorgeous image captured by a recent arrival at the International Space Station shows the night lights of London gleaming......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated News12 hr. 54 min. ago

Observations provide crucial insights into the nature of a white dwarf–brown dwarf binary

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have performed spectrophotometric observations of an eclipsing white dwarf–brown dwarf binary known as WD1032+011. Results of their observational campaign, published September 10 on the preprint s.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated News14 hr. 22 min. ago

London sparkles in astronaut’s gorgeous night shot from ISS

A gorgeous image captured by a recent arrival at the International Space Station shows the night lights of London gleaming from 250 miles up......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated News20 hr. 54 min. ago

Eviction filings can destabilize tenants" lives, even when they win their case

After Charla's landlord failed to repair leaks that caused the ceiling to collapse in her daughter's bedroom, she withheld her rent. Shortly after, her landlord filed an eviction case against her for nonpayment......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 19th, 2024

iPhone 16 battery uses electric glue that will make it easier to repair

A few days ago, we learned that the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max batteries would be more expensive to replace than other models. I speculated … The post iPhone 16 battery uses electric glue that will make it easier to repair appeared first on.....»»

Category: gadgetSource:  bgrRelated NewsSep 18th, 2024

South Africa"s Gauteng province launches water data hub, so residents can now keep track of shortages and repair issues

South Africa is a water-scarce country. In other words, it has an excess of demand over available supply. It also has low water security—the ability to ensure sustainable access to good quality water. The country's economic hub and biggest populati.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsSep 18th, 2024
Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsSep 18th, 2024

Could you find what a lunar crater is made of by shooting it?

Americans are famously fond of their guns. So it should come as no surprise that a team of NASA scientists has devised a way to "shoot" a modified type of sensor into the soil of an otherworldly body and determine what it is made out of. That is prec.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsSep 18th, 2024

How scientists are keeping the Orion spacecraft safe from radiation

NASA's Orion spacecraft will need to protect astronauts from dangerous radiation when they visit the moon in the upcoming Artemis missions......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsSep 18th, 2024

Reinventing the clock: NASA"s new tech for space timekeeping

Here on Earth, it might not matter if your wristwatch runs a few seconds slow. But crucial spacecraft functions need accuracy down to one billionth of a second or less. Navigating with GPS, for example, relies on precise timing signals from satellite.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 18th, 2024

Measuring moon dust to fight air pollution

Moon dust, or regolith, isn't like the particles on Earth that collect on bookshelves or tabletops—it's abrasive and it clings to everything. Throughout NASA's Apollo missions to the moon, regolith posed a challenge to astronauts and valuable space.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 18th, 2024

Work is underway on NASA"s next-generation asteroid hunter

The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 18th, 2024

Magnifying deep space through the "Carousel Lens"—rare alignment offers unique opportunity to study cosmology

In a rare and extraordinary discovery, researchers have identified a unique configuration of galaxies that form the most exquisitely aligned gravitational lens found to date. The Carousel Lens is a massive cluster-scale gravitational lens system that.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 18th, 2024

James Webb image shows two galaxies in the process of colliding

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope captures one of the universe's most dramatic events: the colliding of two galaxies......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsSep 18th, 2024

Polaris Dawn Astronauts Perform First Private Space Walk in a Stellar Success for SpaceX

The world’s first commercial space walk, performed by billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis, tested new technology and was practically flawless.....»»

Category: scienceSource:  sciamRelated NewsSep 18th, 2024