Tag: NASA
This Space Radio Could Help Track Every Flight In Real Time
Researchers have developed a reconfigurable radio that could help air traffic controllers see in real-time the location of every plane in the air -- even those flying across oceans.....
NASA Telescope Spots Most Extreme Blazars Yet
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray space telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a type of galaxy whose intense emissions are powered by super-sized black holes.....
New NASA Research Casts Doubt On Proxima B Habitability
A recently discovered Earth-sized planet, dubbed Proxima b, which orbits within the "habitable zone" of the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, may not actually harbour life, new NASA research suggests.....
NASA Looks At Sending Two Astronauts Aboard Orion
Days after the US President Donald Trump promised to "unlock the mysteries of space", NASA has kicked off a study to assess the feasibility of adding a two-member crew to the first unmanned flight of the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft called Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1).....
NASA's Lost Balloon Recovered From Antarctica
Scientists have recovered a lost football-field-sized balloon with a telescope hanging beneath it from Antarctica after a year of its flight.....
NASA Orbiter Avoids Collision With Mars Moon
NASA said its MAVEN spacecraft performed a previously unscheduled manoeuvre this week to avoid a collision next week with Mars' moon Phobos.....
'Lost' Chandrayaan-1 Found Orbiting Moon
India's first lunar mission -- the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, which was generally considered lost -- is still orbiting the Moon, NASA scientists have found with new technological application of interplanetary radar.....
Biofuels Can Cut Jet Engine Pollution By Half
Using biofuels to help power jet engines cuts particle emissions in their exhaust by as much as 50 to 70 per cent, says a NASA study. ....
SpaceX Launches EchoStar Communication Satellite
SpaceX on Thursday launched the EchoStar 23 communications satellite after high winds delayed a previous attempt.....
Peggy Whitson Set To Break Sunita Williams' Spacewalk Record
Astronaut Peggy Whitson is set to surpass Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams' record for the most spacewalks by a female astronaut when Whitson goes on her eighth spacewalk on Thursday, NASA said.....
