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Ingenuity team says goodbye to pioneering Mars helicopter | Sweden is 38th country to sign NASA's Artemis Accords | How to see 'horned' comet 12P/Pons-Brooks this month

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April 18, 2024

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Ingenuity team says goodbye to pioneering Mars helicopter

(NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS)

Saying goodbye is never easy, especially from a world away. The Ingenuity Mars helicopter team convened one last time on Tuesday (April 16) to oversee a transmission from the little rotorcraft, the first robot ever to explore the skies of a world beyond Earth.

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Sweden is 38th country to sign NASA's Artemis Accords

(Margareta Stridh/Regeringskansliet)

Sweden is the newest nation to sign onto NASA's Artemis Accords for peaceful and responsible exploration. During a signing event in Stockholm on Tuesday (April 16), Swedish Minister for Education Mats Persson penned the agreement alongside U.S. Ambassador Erik D. Ramanathan.

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Skywatching

How to see 'horned' comet 12P/Pons-Brooks this month

(Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images)

All you'll need to see comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, besides fair weather and a little luck are good binoculars or a telescope and sky map to help guide you to where this celestial vagabond happens to be. The comet bears the names of two of the most renowned comet hunters of all time.

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Spaceflight

Boeing's spacesuits have astronauts buzzing (exclusive)

(NASA)

CFT will see NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams do an approximately 10-day shakedown cruise to the ISS to assess the performance of Starliner and all of its related hardware, including the Boeing-made spacesuits.

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Science & Astronomy

Moon Mimas may have ocean from Saturn's pull

(Robert Lea/NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute)

Earlier this year, researchers discovered that a vast liquid ocean lurks beneath the icy shell of Saturn's tiny moon, Mimas. Now the same team may have discovered how it was created.

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SpaceX

SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites

(SpaceX)

It was the 12th launch and landing for this particular booster, according to a SpaceX mission description. That's eight shy of the company's reuse record, which it set on a Starlink mission just last week.

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Technology

XB-1 test plane gets FAA green light for supersonic flight

(Boom Supersonic)

Colorado company Boom has received a first-of-its-kind approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to exceed Mach 1 during test flights of its XB-1 supersonic jet. These flights are slated to occur sometime this year within the Black Mountain Supersonic Corridor in Mojave, California.

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