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Space Force X-37B Spaceplane Returns From 434-Day Mission Then Flies Again With a Quantum Navigation Experiment
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Marzo 8, 2025
Space Force X-37B Spaceplane Returns From 434-Day Mission Then Flies Again With a Quantum Navigation Experiment
The X-37B ended OTV-7 at Vandenberg after 434 days in a highly elliptical orbit. Six months later OTV-8 launched from Kennedy with a quantum inertial sensor and laser communications gear…
Tomatoes Doubled Their Harvest in Fake Martian Dirt While Peas and Carrots Lost — Wageningen’s First Intercropping Trial for the Red Planet
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Maggio 1, 2024
Tomatoes Doubled Their Harvest in Fake Martian Dirt While Peas and Carrots Lost — Wageningen’s First Intercropping Trial for the Red Planet
Wageningen researchers mixed tomatoes, peas, and carrots in NASA Mars simulant. Tomatoes roughly doubled their fruit. The other two crops paid for it, and the whole system still lost to…
NASA Beams a Laser Message to Earth From 140 Million Miles on the Psyche Spacecraft
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Aprile 30, 2024
NASA Beams a Laser Message to Earth From 140 Million Miles on the Psyche Spacecraft
NASA's Psyche spacecraft used DSOC to send a laser message 140 million miles to Earth. The demo later set a distance record near 307 million miles and wrapped in 2025.