“How do we use aerial mobility in the future on Mars, to help not just robotic exploration, but to help human exploration?”
Ellen Stofan
Smithsonian
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Aug 09, 2018
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Aug 03, 2018
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Aug 03, 2018
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Aug 02, 2018
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Aug 01, 2018
Boeing has found the cause of a propellant leak during a June hot-fire test of the CST-100 Starliner launch abort engines.
Jul 31, 2018
On the night of 3–4 August 2018, American, French and Senegalese scientists will be in Senegal to observe as asteroid Ultima Thule passes between Earth and a distant star, a phenomenon called stellar occultation, before NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft performs a flyby of this object on 1 January 2019.
Jul 31, 2018
LeoLabs plans to expand its commercial low-Earth-orbit mapping capabilities with new funding from Airbus and other investors.