A NASA mission testing a new way of navigating our solar system is ready to hoist its sail into space—not to catch the wind, but the propulsive power of sunlight. The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is targeting launch on Tuesday, April 23 (Wednesday, April 24 in New Zealand) aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from the company's Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand.
The ACS3 is super compact – about the size of a microwave oven. However, it has four retractable booms that unfurl and hold four triangular sails, making a diamond shape about half the size of a tennis court. It takes about 25 minutes for the sails to unfold.Read Entire Article
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There have been several biopics and documentaries about the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, but there have also been a number of films all about how the US was actually trying to fake it just in case they failed. Now Love, Simon director Greg Berlanti is going to have his own
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Hemsworth took photos with the community and shared some memories of his
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In this image from Feb. 12, 2024, engineers lift a mast into place on NASA's VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) robotic moon rover. VIPER's mast and the suite of instruments affixed to it look a lot like the rover's "neck" and "head." The mast instruments are designed to help the team of rover drivers and real-time scientists send commands and receive data while the rover navigates around hazardous crater slopes, boulders, and places that risk communications blackouts.
The US space agency is seeking a cheaper, faster solution to bring Martian rocks to Earth for study.
Why do so many liberals hate America? Perhaps their minds would be changed if they visited the regimes so many on the left praise and saw the failures of socialism firsthand.