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[ad_1] NASA will nominate companies selected to raise lunar resources under the Artemis program Press release from: NASA HQ Published: Tuesday 1 December 2020 NASA will hold a media conference call on Thursday, December 3 at 1:00 PM EST to announce the companies it has selected to raise lunar resources …

[ad_1] Meanwhile, installing a new telescope would cost up to $ 350 million, money the NSF doesn’t have, Vazquez said, adding it should come from the United States Congress. “It’s a huge loss,” said Carmen Pantoja, an astronomer and professor at the University of Puerto Rico who used the telescope …

[ad_1] Shocking images and videos documented the beginning of the end for one of the world’s most iconic telescopes. The National Science Foundation’s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, known for its studies on asteroids and aliens and its cameo in a James Bond movie, collapsed this morning (December 1). The …

[ad_1] London police blew up an illegal rave party inside a warehouse where around 80 revelers were dancing despite the country’s stringent COVID-19 restrictions. Officers received several calls from the public about the noise from the party, which was held in Bromley. When they arrived they found a warehouse full …

[ad_1] The famous Arecibo Observatory telescope in Puerto Rico, which once starred in a James Bond film, collapsed on Tuesday when its 900-tonne receiving platform plummeted 140 meters onto the radio dish below. Engineers had recently warned of the massive facility’s decayed condition, and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) …

[ad_1] One of the largest radio telescopes in the world, used to monitor stars for more than half a century, has collapsed. The 57-year-old telescope a Puerto RicoThe Arecibo Observatory was also the protagonist of the James Bond GoldenEye movie, when Pierce Brosnan’s 007 downsized the facility while grappling with …

[ad_1] Has the NASA rocket returned home? The object first spotted in September is within 31,000 miles of Earth and is suspected to be a piece from 1966 Surveyor 2 Object 2020 SO was spotted on a trajectory to Earth on 17 September Some astronomers said it was an asteroid, …

[ad_1] The cameras captured the incredibly huge and bright meteor that crossed the western Japanese sky on Sunday 29 November. This rare phenomenon has caught the attention of television and social media in Japan. As seen in the video, the fireball burns so intensely as it rapidly descends through the …

[ad_1] WASHINGTON, December 1, 2020 / PRNewswire / – Students across the nation will have the opportunity this week to hear from NASA’s astronaut Victor Glover aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-Space call will air live at 12:55 pm EST Thursday, December 3, on NASA television and the agency’s …

[ad_1] As a vehicle travels through space at hypersonic speeds, the gases surrounding it generate heat at temperatures that are dangerous to the driver and instrumentation inside. Designing a vehicle that can wick away heat requires an understanding of the thermal properties of the materials used to build it. A …