NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth Today
Specifically, they have orbits that are predicted to come within 4.6 million miles of Earth's path around the sun and are ...
Japan just launched the world’s first wooden satellite into space
LignoSat will stay in orbit for around six months. During that time ... significantly from -100 to 100 degrees Celsius every ...
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What Is Low Earth Orbit? A Basic Explainer
We talk about rockets and low Earth orbit (LEO) a lot, but we rarely explain where it is and why it's essential. Let's figure ...
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World’s first wooden satellite launched by Japan on a six-month mission
A historic moment unfolded as the world’s first wooden satellite, the brainchild of Japanese researchers, soared into space, ...
‘City killer’ asteroid is one of 4 to graze Earth’s orbit today
NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one of four “hazardous” space rocks to graze our orbit in less than 12 hours. Dubbed 2002 NV16, the cosmic ...
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The Sound of Science - 'Does Earth Have Two Moons?'
NIU STEAM launch to the WNIJ studio, and they brought their telescopes, to answer if Earth really has two moons.
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NASA Backs Proposal to Orbit Starlink Satellites Closer to Earth
SpaceX wants permission to orbit its cellular Starlink satellites 340 to 360 kilometers around Earth, citing the benefits ... below the space station in 300km orbits. "Given the progress made ...
Skyscraper-sized asteroid and 4 others speed past Earth on the same day
Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...
Laser Precision Unlocks Secrets of Earth’s Gravity and Space Junk
Scientists are using laser-based tracking and gravity data to improve how we monitor both satellites and space debris. By blending these methods, they can now predict orbits more precisely and gather ...