Going where no spacecraft has gone before: NASA shuts down cosmic ray instrument on Voyager 2
The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive ...
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Everything Under the Sun
A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...
‘Voyager’s failing signals’: The urgent need for a new deep space probe
NASA’s Voyager probes are failing, creating an urgent need for a new deep-space mission. A proposed interstellar probe could ...
NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
earth15 天
Spiral structure discovered at the edge of our solar system can't be explained
It is easy to think of our solar neighborhood as a tight little cluster of planets, but the reality is far more expansive. Beyond Neptune, a crowd of frozen bits and pieces lingers in the Kuiper Belt, ...
Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
Radioisotope thermoelectric generators do not rely on chemical reactions like the batteries in your phone. Instead, they rely on the radioactive decay of elements to produce heat and eventually ...
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NASA’s SPHEREx Launched from Vandenberg SFB on Tuesday Night
The PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) satellites will observe the Sun and its environment to help scientists better understand the effect of solar winds on our solar system. The ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore18 天
NASA SPHEREx telescope is launched to study universe's origins
Being launched along with SPHEREx is a constellation of satellites for NASA's PUNCH - short for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere - mission to better understand the solar wind ...
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NASA, SpaceX's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions delayed due to weather, data-flow; Check next ...
NASA 's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) missions will be aboard a ...
Yahoo20 天
Weather delays launch of NASA’s newest space telescope set to search for life’s key ...
NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope will search for the key ingredients for life across our galaxy. - Benjamin Fry/BAE Systems/NASA ...
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Here's the launch plan for NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions: 'Liftoff is just the beginning'
"We've run into a lot of challenges along the way [that] have caused us some launch delays, but this team has pulled together and worked diligently to get us over that." After more than a week of ...
Firstpost20 天
Nasa tries to give new lease of life to Voyager missions that have outlived their life ...
the region outside the heliosphere. Voyager 1 crossed the edge of the heliosphere and the beginning of interstellar space in 2012, while Voyager 2 did so in 2018. No previous human-made spacecraft has ...