Space travel
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The stranded NASA astronauts are feeling festive this Christmas, despite being thousands of miles away from earth. Sunita “Suni” Williams—who has been stranded in space alongside partner Barry “Butch” Wilmore since June—recently got into the holiday spirit with some fellow space explorers aboard the International Space Station. “Another day, another sleigh,” NASA captioned a new Instagram snapshot of Williams and American…
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SpaceX launched the Hera mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) to interplanetary transfer orbit on Monday. The spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 10:52 a.m. Eastern Time. Later SpaceX confirmed Hera’s deployment. Hera is a planetary defense mission that will study the impact of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection…
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ADA Space, a Chinese AI satellite internet technology company, announced on Sunday that its recently-launched satellite has successfully completed the technical verification of AI large-model technology during the in-orbit operation. From Sept. 25 to Oct. 5, the satellite conducted 13 tests of its AI large model, involving multiple types of inference questions under various operating…
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“Space now,” was what Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa wanted to tweet for years. He finally really did it, from the International Space Station. “The space market holds so much potential,” he said Friday at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Tokyo, his first news conference in Japan after returning to earth before Christmas. Maezawa, who heads…
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A new study suggests that future travelers to Mars may want to consider packing a few boxes of red wine. Or, more practically, supplements of a compound found in red wine that can help keep muscles from withering away, per a release at Eureka Alert. Harvard researchers make the assertion in a NASA-funded study at Frontiers in…
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