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Home News Science & Astronomy Examining coastal sea rise, tracking underwater ocean waves and adding to long-term data about climate change will be the main scientific return of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite mission, officials said in a press conference.The satellite is expected to launch Nov. 10 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape…
Home News Spaceflight NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover reached its halfway point — 146.3 million miles (235.4 million kilometers) — on its journey to the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater on Oct. 27, 2020, at 4:40 EDT (2040 GMT). (Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA’s next Mars rover is halfway to its otherworldly destination.The Mars 2020 rover Perseverance,…
China has apparently chosen a primary landing site for its Tianwen-1 Mars rover ahead of the spacecraft’s arrival at the Red Planet in February 2021. Tianwen-1, consisting of an orbiter and a lander-rover duo, is currently on its way to Mars following launch on a Long March 5 rocket on July 23. Mission team members have…
Home News Spaceflight (Image: © ESA/NASA/ATG Medialab) NASA’s moon-orbiting space station just got a new high-profile partner.The European Space Agency (ESA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday (Oct. 27) formalizing its collaboration on Gateway, a planned outpost in lunar orbit that NASA sees as key to its Artemis program of crewed moon exploration.Under…
Home News Spaceflight Captured by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s SamCam camera on Oct. 22, 2020, this series of three images shows that the sampler head on the NASA spacecraft is full of rocks and dust collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu. Some of these particles are slowly escaping the sampler head. Analysis by the…
Coronavirus vaccine candidate maker Pfizer was expected to release early efficacy results for Phase 3 in mid-October, ahead of the presidential election. That’s no longer the case, as the first efficacy data isn’t yet available. Pfizer, which is blinded to the study, awaits conclusions from an independent data and safety monitoring board. The first results…
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A new study has shed light on which early coronavirus symptoms increase the likelihood that a patient will endure lingering symptoms for months after the initial diagnosis. Patients with lingering COVID-19 symptoms have been called ‘long haulers.’ Some common symptoms that do not go away with time include fatigue, a loss of taste and smell,…
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Microsoft sent us an Xbox One to review ahead of the console’s launch next month. Below, you can watch a short unboxing video featuring the Xbox Series X retail package. The Xbox Series X ($499) and Xbox Series S ($299) will be available on November 10th. In less than two weeks, the next generation of…