Episodios

  • Two years of JWST science and a Falcon 9 rocket malfunction

    Two years of JWST science and a Falcon 9 rocket malfunction
    Jul 16 2024
    A new James Webb Space Telescope image of two galaxies in a cosmic dance was released for the telescope’s two-year anniversary of science operations. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket malfunction resulted in satellites burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, and the rocket grounded.
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  • Uncovering the mysteries of Bennu and a space news roundup

    Uncovering the mysteries of Bennu and a space news roundup
    Jul 9 2024
    From the OSIRIS-REx mission, phosphate was found in a sample from the asteroid Bennu, a necessary building block for life to exist here on Earth. Then, as NASA grapples with aging space suits on the International Space Station, efforts to build the next generation of space suits hit a major snag.
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  • Launching a new weather satellite and fixing a spacecraft in interstellar space

    Launching a new weather satellite and fixing a spacecraft in interstellar space
    Jul 2 2024
    The fourth and final satellite of the GOES-R weather satellite constellation is one step closer to tracking weather from space like never before. Plus, after a year of lost communication, Voyager 1 is back online after engineers delivered a fix 15 million miles away from Earth.
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  • Mystery lunar domes and missing moon trees

    Mystery lunar domes and missing moon trees
    Jun 25 2024
    Scientists are sending instruments to the moon to explore unique domes similar to ones on Earth, but how they were made is a mystery. Plus, one man is trying to save and document moon trees, seedlings sent to orbit the moon that now are scattered across the country.
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  • Another Starliner delay and an update from Mars

    Another Starliner delay and an update from Mars
    Jun 18 2024
    After helium and thruster malfunctions, Boeing’s Starliner has been delayed once again, with the crew still on the International Space Station. Plus, the rovers on Mars have been hard at work drilling on the red planet to find answers to how and why water flowed abundantly on Mars in the past.
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  • The future of Hubble and a mission to Saturn’s moon Titan

    The future of Hubble and a mission to Saturn’s moon Titan
    Jun 11 2024
    For over three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has remained in low earth orbit sending images to Earth for scientific research. But now, the telescope is starting to show signs of its age. Plus, a look at a new mission is headed far into our solar system to study one of Saturn’s moons.
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  • ‘Challenger’ takes a new look at the 1986 Space Shuttle disaster

    ‘Challenger’ takes a new look at the 1986 Space Shuttle disaster
    Jun 4 2024
    Author and journalist Adam Higginbotham and his new book Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space explores the events that led up to the disaster in 1986.
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  • Mini moon rovers and communicating in deep space

    Mini moon rovers and communicating in deep space
    May 30 2024
    A trio of mini moon rovers will launch to the moon later this year and an Italian space company is trying to communicate farther into space than ever before with new transponders and satellites.
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