(by Francesco Matera) Last January, GPS images of Russian troops massing on the borders of Ukraine warned in advance of an imminent invasion. During wartime, satellite links kept frontline troops in touch with their commanders. Meanwhile, the GPS-guided Himar rocket launchers helped move [...]
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NASA is preparing for an experimental mission with the aim of hitting an asteroid. The operation, unique of its kind, is called DART - Double Asteroid Redirection Test - and will use a space probe designed to crash into the flying celestial body at a speed of about 6,6 kilometers per hour. The first planetary defense mission at [...]
read moreLeonardo: at work on robotic arms for NASA and ESA missions Mars Sample Return The robotic exploration of Mars is at the center of recent international missions and also in Leonardo's laboratories cutting-edge robotic systems are being studied to contribute to the discovery of the secrets of the Red Planet . As part of NASA's "Mars Sample Return" campaign, in collaboration [...]
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(by Fabio Di Spigno) It finally happened, after a first postponement due to bad weather. After years of work, a new space race, a new era of space exploration, began almost without realizing it, at 21:22 and 42 seconds Italian time on May 30, 2020. In a historical moment in which the borders of nations [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Space Economy, since yesterday a new development opportunity for a sector that today is worth 300 billion in global turnover and is expected to increase by 5 or 10 times in the next 3 decades. Elon Musk's rocket, Crew Dragon started on May 30, 2020, at 21.22:XNUMX pm Italian time, [...]
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Giovanni Covone, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, and Luca Cacciapuoti, master student of the degree course in Physics, took part in the first discovery of an exoplanet of terrestrial dimensions in the so-called habitable zone, of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) space telescope NASA. Designed and launched into orbit in order to find planets [...]
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NASA will purchase seats to transport commercial missions organized to the International Space Station (ISS) by 2024. In early 2020, NASA is expected to issue a tender for any suppliers interested in providing the service but likely competitors to provide it should be the two companies that NASA has already hired for [...]
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The Italian Space Agency - ASI - is increasingly in symbiosis with NASA's objectives. The two space agencies have entered into an agreement for the launch of Artemis, the program that aims to bring man back to the Moon by 2024. The president of ASI, Giorgio Saccoccia, and the administrator of NASA, James Bridenstine, have signed in Washington, [...]
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Agreement between the Italian Air Force and Virgin Galactic The first contract between the Italian Air Force and Virgin Galactic for the purchase of a suborbital scientific research flight was signed today at the Italian Embassy in Washington. The flight will depart from the New Mexico Spaceport in the US in December 2020. To sign [...]
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When Summer #Worden realized that her ex-partner Anne #McClain had logged into her bank account, she must have been surprised, especially considering that the accused was on a mission aboard the International Space Station for six months. (ISS) The two women are facing a difficult divorce case, complicated by the custody of the [...]
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Exactly one year after the collapse of the #Morandi Bridge in #Genoa, #Nasa reveals an important indiscretion for the investigations still underway. NASA has published a study according to which the structure would have started to deform significantly as early as 2015, and then increase the deformation more and more until it collapsed. In [...]
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In the international team two Federicians: the astrophysicist Giovanni #Covone and the master student Luca #Cacciapuoti The #TESS (#NASA) space telescope has discovered a planetary system with three terrestrial planets that will allow us to study the characteristics of the atmosphere. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has identified, in fact, a planetary system consisting of three planets [...]
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Yesterday, as on so many other occasions, an asteroid the "CL2" touched the Earth at a speed of 27 kilometers per hour, or 7,54 kilometers per second, a distance of 4 million kilometers. NASA calls them Neo - Near Earth Object. At that distance they pose no danger to our planet. But in the end [...]
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Lockheed Martin has been awarded a 250 million dollar NASA contract for the development of a supersonic jet capable of not creating the typical boom created by overcoming the so-called “sound barrier”; generally, the speed of such a plane is so high that the molecules of the air [...]
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that its Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter's agitated atmosphere this week, successfully completing its 7th scientific orbit. The closest approach was on February 3.500 about XNUMX kilometers above the planet's cloud tops, according to NASA. [...]
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Two small asteroids grazed Earth within a lunar distance this week, a press release from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported. The latest was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona on February 4, and was named Asteroid 2018 CB, estimated between [...]
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