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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter aces longest Mars flight in 18 months

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October 25, 2023

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The Launchpad

Watch it live: Cosmonauts hunt for leak source during EVA

(NASA)

Expedition 70 cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub will install communications hardware, release a nanosatellite, and look at a suspected leaky radiator on Russia's new Nauka science module.

Full Story: Space (10/25)

Space Quiz! Which spacecraft or probe first discovered evidence of rivers on Mars?

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Ingenuity helicopter aces longest Mars flight in 18 months

(NASA/JPL-Caltech)

The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity conducted its 63rd flight Oct. 19, covering 1,901 feet (579 meters) of ground in the process.

Full Story: Space (10/24)

Spaceflight

SpaceX fuels up Starship in key test ahead of 2nd flight

(SpaceX)

Elon Musk said recently that SpaceX has implemented all of the FAA's corrective actions required ahead of flight number two, and it's clear that the company wants to fly again soon.

Full Story: Space (10/25)

Science & Astronomy

Largest universe simulation raises cosmology dilemma

(Tomoaki Ishiyama)

We see countless stars and galaxies sparkling in the universe today, but how much matter is actually there? The question is simple enough - its answer, however, is turning out to be quite a head-scratcher.

Full Story: Space (10/24)

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SpaceX

SpaceX inks deal to launch European nav satellites: report

(Space.com / Josh Dinner)

The deal, which Elon Musk's company inked recently with the European Space Agency, calls for the Galileo satellites to launch atop Falcon 9 rockets from U.S. soil.

Full Story: Space (10/24)

Technology

Astronauts will ride to the launchpad in sleek electric cars

(NASA/Robert Markowitz)

NASA showed off the glitzy interior of its new fleet of astronaut cars from Canoo Technologies Inc., which are assigned to the Artemis program. The first astronaut crew, Artemis 2, will use the all-electric vehicles prior to their round-the-moon mission starting in 2024.

Full Story: Space (10/25)

Search for Life

Curiosity finds evidence Mars once had conditions for life

(NASA)

Thanks to a combination of images from NASA's Curiosity rover, scans of sedimentary rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico on Earth and computer simulations, geologists have identified the ancient, eroded remnants of rivers in a number of craters on Mars.

Full Story: Space (10/25)

Star Trek

'Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek' miniseries coming in 2024

(IDW)

During a panel earlier this month at New York Comic Con 2023, IDW Publishing announced that a new, kid-centric "Star Trek" comic is coming next year. "Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek" is a four-part miniseries hatched from IDW's Eisner-nominated flagship "Star Trek" series and "Star Trek: Defiant" title.

Full Story: Space (10/24)