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NASA's CIO On Managing IT In The Final Frontier

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More details: Found here Headlines: • "China Commits to Carbon Neutrality" - China, the world's largest emitting country, aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, a significant shift in global climate efforts. (Source: BBC News) • "NASA's Perseverance Rover Discovers Ancient River Delta on Mars" - NASA's Mars rover has found evidence of an ancient river delta on Mars, providing valuable insights into the planet's past habitability. (Source: National Geographic) • "EU Sets 55% CO2 Emissions Reduction Target" - The European Union has agreed to reduce its CO2 emissions by at least 55% by 2030, a move that could have significant implications for the global energy sector. (Source:

SpaceX Prepares For Sixth Starship Test Launch: What To Know

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Read more: Visit website Headlines: Last month, SpaceX pulled off an incredible feat. On the fifth test flight of its enormous Starship rocket, the booster stage returned to the launchpad and was caught in midair by two large mechanical arms on the launch tower. The launch may occur as early as Tuesday during a 30-minute time slot starting at 5 p.m. Eastern time. SpaceX will stream coverage of the test flight beginning about 30 minutes before liftoff from SpaceX's site in South Texas near the city of Brownsville. The Starship rocket system is the largest ever built — 397 feet tall, or about 90 feet taller than the Statue of Lib

Asteroids And Earth's Fate: Are We Really Prepared To Prevent A Catastrophe?

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More details: See here Headlines: Earth's Fate": • NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office is working to track and catalog all near-Earth asteroids, with a focus on those larger than 140 meters in diameter, which could cause catastrophic damage if they were to impact Earth (Source: NASA) • The European Space Agency's Space Situational Awareness program is monitoring asteroid and comet orbits to better predict potential threats and improve preparedness (Source: ESA) • Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a new method for detecting and tracking small asteroids, which could uncover many more potentially hazardous asteroids (Source:

Space And Astronomy - The New York Times

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Read more: Visit website An independent researcher found that noise recorded miles away from the site of a recent test flight was equal to standing 200 feet from a Boeing 747 during takeoff. For a century, exoplanet hunters have "discovered" planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest find is for real. The agency's top medical official was responding to rumors that Suni Williams had lost an unusual amount of weight during an extended stay in orbit. Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brie

New NRL Robotics Suite To Service Orbiting Satellites

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Source: See here Headlines: The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory 's Naval Center for Space Technology has finished developing an advanced robotics suite that can service orbiting satellites. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites Integrated Robotic Payload aims to advance efforts to design, build, integrate and test new satellite servicing capabilities, the U.S. Navy said Thursday. If successful, the program would allow the U.S. government to repair and upgrade satellites in deployment, leading to significant savings. Glen Henshaw , a senior scientist for robotics and autonomous systems at NRL, no

Bloomberg - Are You A Robot?

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