This record temperature coincides with a year of “extreme weather events across the planet” that, in the United States alone, caused 25 catastrophes causing damage worth more than $1 billion each. At the presentation conference of the 2023 global temperatures survey – which the space agency conducted jointly with the National Office of Oceanic and […]
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NASA chooses 4 to live for a year as if they were on Mars, what are they looking for?
The US space agency showed days ago what it would become “At home” where the crew will spend about a year. It is a communal house, with four bedrooms, a living room and a gym surrounded by red sand that bears the name of Mars Dune Alpha. Mars Dune Alpha is located at NASA’s Johnson […]
NASA successfully launches the Artemis I mission to the moon
Similarly, the capabilities of the Orion ship will be measured, in which up to four crew members can fit, that is, one more than the Apollo, and with water and oxygen reserves that would allow about 20 days of independent travel. Two hours after this launch, and after separating from the SLS rocket, Orion will […]
Falcon Heavy Rocket Takes Off With Two US Armed Forces Satellites
Tuesday’s launch is the fourth flight of the Falcon Heavy, which consists of three Falcon 9 rocket cores that form a compact, soaring booster, powered by 27 Merlin engines with the power of 18 commercial jets. This 70-meter-high and 12-meter-wide rocket made its first test flight in 2018, when it launched a Tesla car into […]
NASA tries to launch a new lunar rocket for the second time this Saturday
© Kevin Dietsch/AFP Author: Portugal/TSF The US space agency (NASA) will try to launch the new SLS lunar rocket for the second time this Saturday, after the takeoff was canceled on Monday due to technical problems. The launch will take place from NASA’s base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a two-hour “window of opportunity” opening […]
Perseverance managed to produce breathable oxygen on Mars
© NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Author: Lusa The North American Perseverance robot, which has been on Mars for a year and a half, managed to produce breathable oxygen from carbon dioxide, in an experiment that gives perspective to a possible human survival on the inhospitable planet, it was announced on Wednesday. The results of the experiment, which produced […]
Artemis I mission. NASA announces the launch of a new lunar rocket on Saturday
© Joe Raedle/AFP Author: Lusa The US space agency (NASA) announced on Tuesday that it will try to launch the new SLS lunar rocket on Saturday, after a first failed attempt on Monday due to a technical problem. “We have agreed to move our launch date to Saturday, September 3,” said mission manager Mike Sarafin, […]
The SLS rocket of the Artemis I mission has “technology from the 70s and 80s”
Astronomer Miguel Gonçalves believes that NASA’s decision to cancel the launch was the right one © Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich/EPA Author: Ruben de Matos with Catia Carmo The astronomer and science communicator Miguel Gonçalves recalls, in TSFthat even though the launch of the Artemis lunar rocket was a huge technological investment, some of the technology used is […]
Artemis I mission postponed. NASA cancels SLS rocket launch due to engine problems
The rocket launch was scheduled for Monday. © EPA Author: TSF NASA canceled the launch of Artemis 1 on Monday due to problems in one of the four rocket engines. NASA’s Artemis mission was scheduled to begin this Monday, with the launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. The launch of the SLS, an […]
NASA believes it is still possible to launch a rocket despite the fuel leak
© Joel Kowsky/EPA Author: Lusa NASA believes that it will still be possible to carry out the launch of the new lunar rocket to place a manned capsule in lunar orbit on Monday, despite the detection of a fuel leak, according to the US space agency. NASA Deputy Launch Director Jeremy Graeber said launch controllers […]