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Elon Musk is following up his  Saturday Night Live stint  with another, more practical pitch for  Dogecoin . Canadian engineering firm Geometric Energy Corporation has  struck a deal  with SpaceX to launch its DOGE-1 cubesat to the Moon in the first quarter of 2022. As the name implies, it's funded entirely by Dogecoin — the first commercial lunar payload paid for with the cryptocurrency, Geometric Energy said. The mission will launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The 88-pound cubesat will collect "lunar-spatial intelligence" through a combination of cameras and sensors, according to the company. And yes, SpaceX is fully aware of the significance of the launch. Commercial sales VP Tom Ochinero said the mission would demonstrate the viability of crypto beyond Earth and establish a "foundation for interplanetary commerce." Future lunar missions will also rely on Dogecoin, Geometric Energy added. There's little doubt both sides see the chance for publicity h...

Working as a team , NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and Perseverance rover have achieved another  historic first . During the rotorcraft's  fourth flight  on April 30th, Perseverance managed to capture an audio clip of the foray, marking the first time a spacecraft on another planet has recorded the sounds made by a separate spacecraft. Now you can hear and see how that flight unfolded. NASA has  shared a nearly three-minute-long video  captured by Perseverance with its Mastcam-Z imager and the microphone on its SuperCam laser instrument.  Even though Ingenuity's blades were spinning at 2,537 rotations per minute, it's hard to hear the helicopter slice through the skies of Mars. There are a handful of reasons for that. Perseverance was 262 feet away from the drone's takeoff and landing spot. Additionally, the planet's thin atmosphere makes it difficult for sounds to travel, especially when they're competing against Mars' bitter winds. To make it easie...

  SpaceX launched a 50m high building sized object 10km up into the sky, belly flopped it back down to the ground, last second flip and ignite landing and it landed. Absolutely frickin' unreal 🤯 @elonmusk @SpaceX pic.twitter.com/lLyMWATRtR — Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) May 6, 2021

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a full stack of 60  Starlink  internet satellites into orbit on Tuesday afternoon (May 4) and then stuck its landing at sea to top off a successful mission.  The veteran  Falcon 9 rocket  blasted off from Pad 39A here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:01 p.m. EDT (1901 GMT), marking the company's 13th launch of the year. SpaceX  launched its own version of the "fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy," the Falcon 9, on Star Wars Day (aka "May the Fourth"), a global celebration of all things "Star Wars." The 229-foot-tall (70 meters) rocket is named after the Millennium Falcon — the iconic ship in the "Star Wars" franchise piloted by Han Solo. It's payload? A full stack of 60 flat-paneled broadband satellites called Starlink.  "And liftoff! May the force be with us," a SpaceX launch commentator said during a live webcast of the mission. Approximately nin...

The SpaceX Crew-1 mission has  returned safely to Earth  — and shattered a record in the process. NASA has  confirmed  that Crew-1 broke a record for the longest mission duration for a crewed American spacecraft, with the Crew Dragon capsule Resilience lasting 168 days in orbit before splashdown off the coast of Florida at 2:56AM Eastern. The previous best was set back in February 1974, when the last Skylab crew spent slightly more than 84 days on their mission. NASA reiterated that this was also the first nighttime splashdown for a US crewed spacecraft since Apollo 8's ocean touchdown in December 1968  The achievement isn't completely unexpected when the Crew-1 team was meant to spend about six months conducting experiments, spacewalks and other activities aboard the International Space Station. The recently docked Crew-2 should last about as long. Still, the completed mission is a significant milestone. It shows how much spaceflight has evolved in ...

     Shiny satellites and space junk orbiting Earth may have increased the brightness of the night sky by more than 10 percent above the natural light levels, a new study has found, and further stated that these objects in the sky could also pose a threat to our viewing of the universe. The research, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a scientific journal, is the first to examine the overall effect of space objects on the night sky rather than the impact of individual satellites and space debris affecting astronomers' images. Miroslav Kocifaj of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Comenius University in Slovakia, who led the study, said the primary objective of their research was to estimate the potential contribution of external sources to night sky brightness. These include space objects in Earth's orbit. "We expected the sky brightness increase would be marginal, if any, but our first theoretical estimates have proved extremely surprisi...

A  SpaceX  Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts returned to Earth early Sunday (May 2) with an ocean splashdown off the Florida coast, successfully completing the company’s first full-fledged crewed mission to the International Space Station. The astronauts of SpaceX’s  Crew-1 mission  for NASA splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City at 2:56 a.m. EDT (0656 GMT), with a recovery ship swiftly retrieving their  Crew Dragon  capsule from the sea. The spacecraft landed on target, marking the  first nighttime splashdown of a U.S. crewed flight  in 53 years. The last was NASA’s  Apollo 8  moon mission on Dec. 27, 1968.  “Dragon, on behalf of NASA and SpaceX teams, we welcome you back to planet Earth and thanks for flying SpaceX. For those of you enrolled in our frequent flier program, you’ve earned 68 million miles [109 million kilometers] on this voyage,” a SpaceX crew operations and resources engineer told the ...

  SpaceX’s Crew-1 mission, the first operational mission of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, sent four astronauts on a round trip to the International Space Station for NASA. The mission lifted off on Nov. 14, 2020, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It returned to Earth with a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on May 2, 2021. You can  see the latest updates here . Here, the Crew-1 astronauts, including NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi, pose in front of their Dragon capsule during crew equipment interface testing at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on Aug. 14, 2020. Click through this gallery to see more photos of the Crew-1 mission.  Read The Full Story  

  SpaceX is continuing its Starship spacecraft testing and development program apace, and as of this afternoon it has authorization from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct its next three test flights from its launch site in Boca Chica, Texas. Approvals for prior launch tests have been one-offs, but the FAA said in a statement that it's approving these in a batch because "SpaceX is making few changes to the launch vehicle and relied on the FAA's approved methodology to calculate the risk to the public." SpaceX is set to launch its SN15 test Starship as early as this week, with the condition that an FAA inspector be present at the time of the launch at the facility in Boca Chica. The regulator says that it has sent an inspector, who is expected to arrive today, which could pave the way for a potential launch attempt in the next couple of days. The last test flight SpaceX attempted from Boca Chica was the launch of SN11, which occurred at the e...

  (Reuters) — American astronaut Michael Collins, who stayed behind in the command module of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin traveled to the lunar surface to become the first humans to walk on the moon, died on Wednesday at age 90, his family said. A statement released by his family said Collins died of cancer. Often described as the “forgotten” third astronaut on the historic mission, Collins remained alone for more than 21 hours until his two colleagues returned in the lunar module. He lost contact with mission control in Houston each time the spacecraft circled the dark side of the moon. “Not since Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike Collins,” the mission log said, referring to the biblical figure. Collins wrote an account of his experiences in his 1974 autobiography, “Carrying the Fire,” but largely shunned publicity. “I know that I would be a liar or a fool if I said that I have the b...

Greenhouse gases lurking in the form of icy clouds on ancient Mars are likely indirectly responsible for the red planet’s earliest rivers and lakes, says a new study just published in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America).  “Despite receiving just 30 percent of Earth’s present-day solar insolation, Mars had water lakes and rivers early in the planet’s history, due to an unknown warming mechanism,” the authors write. “A possible explanation is warming by water ice clouds,” they note. A thin layer of icy, high-altitude clouds, not unlike cirrus clouds on Earth, could have warmed Mars’ atmosphere sufficiently to cause a greenhouse effect. University of Chicago planetary scientist Edwin Kite, the paper’s lead author, says he and colleagues’ new climate model helps cement the idea of a warm, young Mars.  “It's been known for many years that CO2 alone is not enough to explain warm climates on Early Mar...

  Russia mulls withdrawing from the International Space Station The ISS was launched in 1998 by Russian and US space agencies, and to this day, is one of the most impressive and fruitful scientific projects. It’s also a rare case of partnership between Russia and the US, a partnership that seemed to work even as relations between the two countries deteriorated. The 20-year-old International Space Station (ISS) is showing its age: Last month, cosmonauts patched up cracks in a Russian module that were thought to be the source of minor air leaks. Cracks are also appearing in the international alliance that keeps the station going. This week, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov suggested Russia would back away from the ISS as early as 2025 to pursue a national space station. Although he and other officials have since backpedaled from such a concrete date for withdrawal, Russian skepticism over the future of the ISS could complicate U.S. efforts to keep it operating until the e...