Day: August 17, 2024

SpaceX launched an epic rideshare mission to space today (Aug. 16). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 116 different satellites launched on the company’s Transporter 11 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 2:56 p.m. EDT (1856 GMT; 11:56 a.m. local time.) The first stage of Falcon 9 landed nearby the launch site roughly eight minutes …

SpaceX Launches 116 Satellites On Epic Transporter 11 Rideshare Mission, Lands Rocket. Read More »

The Coma Cluster of more than 1,000 galaxies is resplendent in this new image from the powerful Dark Energy Camera (DECam) situated in the four-meter Victor M. Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Located about 321 million light-years away from us in the constellation of Coma Berenices, the Coma galaxy cluster …

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Scientists at NASA’s Cold Atom Lab (CAL) onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have announced that, for the first time, they have successfully made high-precision measurements using a quantum sensor based on ultra-cold atoms of the element Rubidium.This is a significant achievement with wide-ranging applications, as these sensors could surpass traditional ones in sensitivity and …

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