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Bezos' Blue Origin Rocket “Has A Chance”

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Reference: See here Headlines: Up until now it is Elon Musk's SpaceX that has added snappy names to its floating landing vessels. Musk's fleet is named ⁘Just Read the Instructions', ⁘A Shortfall of Gravitas' and ⁘Of Course I Still Love You'. Now The Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin rocket business is getting into the act. For example, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is playfully called ⁘So you're telling me there's a chance'. Dave Limp, Blue Origin's CEO, explains that the company had what he called a "cool history" of naming key hardware. "We're calling New G

NASA Wants To Send Humans To Mars In The 2030s ⁘ A Crewed Mission Could Unlock Some Of The...

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Source: Visit website Headlines: • "Japan's Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Makes Historic Landing on Dwarf Planet Ceres" (CNN) • "Elon Musk's Starlink Satellite Internet Service Makes Global Debut" (The Verge) • "NASA's Perseverance Rover Discovers Evidence of Ancient Lake on Mars" (Space. com) • "China's Tianwen-1 Spacecraft Successfully Enters Mars Orbit" (Xinhua News) • "SpaceX's Crew-1 Mission Returns to Earth with NASA Astronauts Aboard" (NASA) • "European Space Agency's Rosalind Franklin Rover Set to Explore Mars in 2023" (The Guardian) • "Scientists Discover Water on Moon's Surface, Raising Hope for

SpaceX's Starship 'Chopstick Landing' Technique Just Made Every Kerbal Space Program Enthusiast Go...

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Reference: Found here Kerbal Space Program is one of those games where, if you caught the bug, it never really left you. I still sometimes fall asleep at night envisioning new and creative ways to build rockets that fail miserably, despite not having touched the game for well over a year now. Watching the latest SpaceX Starship booster return footage though, I felt that familiar itch return again (via BBC News ). Elon Musk's pet space project has achieved many remarkable feats in the past few years, but manoeuvring a Super Heavy rocket booster down to a launch pad under its own po

Turkish Discovery Officially Recognized As 'Asteroid'

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Reference: Visit website Headlines: The project was led by Ayşe Arslan, a science teacher at Düzce BILSEM who has been engaged in space observation for five years, along with Ömer Selim Esen, a 14-year-old ninth grade student at Düzce Turgut Özal Anadolu High School. Their work was part of the "Asteroid Discovery Campaign," supported by the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC). Ayşe Arslan shared her excitement with Anadolu Agency (AA), noting that after their application to the Asteroid Discovery Campaign was accepted, they began their observations using data sets provided to them. They u

The Latest Frontiers Of Space Exploration And History

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Read more: Visit website Recent discoveries suggest Christopher Columbus might have been a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, according to DNA analysis conducted by Spanish researchers. This revelation sheds light on the enduring mystery surrounding Columbus's origins, a matter long contested by multiple nations. The head of the Italian Space Agency, Teodoro Valente, emphasizes the critical role of private investment in space exploration. Ahead of the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, Valente argues against demonizing private companies, stating

New Breakthrough Helps Free Up Space For Robots To 'Think', Say Scientists

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Read more: Found here Headlines: Engineers have worked out how to give robots complex instructions without electricity for the first time which could free up more space in the robotic 'brain' for them to 'think'. They say this world first opens up the possibility of a new generation of robots, whose bodies could operate independently of their built-in control centre, with this space potentially being used instead for more complex AI powered software. The findings, published in Advanced Science could also enable the creation of robots able to operate in situations where electricity-powered devices cannot work, such a

Lebanon Rocked By Wave Of Hand-held Radio Blasts As 'Solar Energy Systems Explode...

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Source: Found here Headlines: Lebanon has been rocked by a second wave of blasts, this time linked to hand-held radios, as reports have emerged that solar energy systems have exploded in several areas as well. Following the second wave of explosions, Israel's defence minister declared a "new phase" of the war as its army turned its attention to the northern front with Lebanon. Multiple reports have come in from Lebanon saying hand-held radios used by Hezbollah have exploded across the country's south, and in the southern suburbs of the capital. On the ground in Beirut - a 'city under siege': The sound of the bombings is terrif