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Space Force X-37B Flies OTV-8 With a Quantum Compass and Laser Link After the 434-Day Vandenberg Landing
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Marzo 8, 2025
Space Force X-37B Flies OTV-8 With a Quantum Compass and Laser Link After the 434-Day Vandenberg Landing
After a 434-day elliptical flight and an aerobraking landing at Vandenberg, the Space Force X-37B went back up as OTV-8 with a quantum inertial sensor and a laser communications test.
NASA Paid $300,000 for a Mars Menu While a Tomato Doubled in Fake Martian Dirt and the Carrot Lost
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Maggio 1, 2024
NASA Paid $300,000 for a Mars Menu While a Tomato Doubled in Fake Martian Dirt and the Carrot Lost
NASA's Mars to Table prize and a new dirt-eating microbe still have not fixed the perchlorate problem Wageningen measured when tomatoes doubled and carrots lost.
NASA’s Psyche Laser Sent 13.6 Terabits From Deep Space, Then Mars Flung the Spacecraft Toward a Metal Asteroid
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Aprile 30, 2024
NASA’s Psyche Laser Sent 13.6 Terabits From Deep Space, Then Mars Flung the Spacecraft Toward a Metal Asteroid
NASA's Psyche spacecraft used a laser to move 13.6 terabits across deep space. The demo ended in 2025. In May 2026 Mars gave the probe a 1,000-mph boost toward asteroid…