Science

Nokia says it has been chosen by the US space agency NASA to build the first mobile phone telephone network on the moon. The Finnish technology company recently announced that its Nokia Bell Labs division will build the lunar communications system. It said NASA will put the equipment on a lunar lander. The spacecraft is expected to reach the moon’s …

A NASA spacecraft touched an asteroid Tuesday, a first for the space agency and the United States. Osiris-Rex avoided giant cliffs after traveling more than 200 million miles to reach down to Bennu with a robotic arm and extract materials from the surface for exploration back to Earth. The asteroid’s gravity was too weak for the vessel to touch the …

A NASA spacecraft has really messed up the asteroid Bennu, and scientists are thrilled. The spacecraft, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe, briefly touched Bennu on Tuesday afternoon (October 21) in the space agency’s first ever attempt to collect samples of an asteroid. It will take time to confirm if OSIRIS-REx actually collected pieces of Bennu, but so far everything seems to have …

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. – SpaceX successfully launched its latest Falcon 9 rocket mission on Saturday morning. The launch, which was postponed from Thursday, will be lifted at 11:31 The mission sent 60 more of the broadband Internet communications satellites into space. What you need to know Successful SpaceX launch Saturday morning SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent another …

The spacecraft’s sampling arm, called the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, over the target test site during a general test in April. NASA NASAs asteroid-chaser Osiris-Rex completed an important part of its mission this week by managing to stick some rocks from the surface of the potentially dangerous asteroid Bennu, NASA reported Friday. The spacecraft traveled over 200 million miles and …

WASHINGTON – SpaceX launched another set of Starlink satellites on October 24, marking the 100th time the company has placed payloads in orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket took off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 11:31 East. The top stage of the rocket utilized the payload of 60 Starlink satellites in orbit 63 minutes …

SpaceX aims to build a Starlink mega-constellation around MARS to provide internet to the one million people the company will send to colonize the red planet SpaceX revealed plans to bring its Starlink satellites to Mars The company wants to provide internet to those who colonize the red planet The satellites would act as a communications bridge between Mars and …

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2020 has been shared by Roger Penrose, a mathematical physicist, for his work on the theoretical basis of black holes and astronomers Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, who led independent teams to verify the existence of such a black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Penrose showed that the consequence of …

Are women better astronauts than men? This issue will be central to the selection of crews for the Moon, Mars and beyond as we colonize space. In the struggle for equality between women, women have already proven that they are capable of doing anything – including conquering space, which shows that not even heaven is the limit of their success. …

To infinity and the polls. NASA astronaut Kate Rubins cast her vote in the 2020 election from space. Rubins voted via a secure electronic voting booth abroad International Space Station, and she posted a happy picture to Twitter this week after performing her civic duty. In 1997, Texas passed a law allowing astronauts to vote in “space travel.” Many U.S. …