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The Sky Today on Tuesday, June 2: Titan stands close to Saturn

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 1: Mercury at its best Titan, Saturn's ...

To reach Saturn’s moon, NASA needed a new heat shield. Sandia had the only place in the US to test it.

NASA, in its mission to send a craft to explore Titan, one of Saturn’s many moons, faced a dilemma. Dragonfly, the rotorcraft that will explore Titan, needed a heat shield to survive a two-hour ...
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Before NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft soars on Titan, model is tested on Earth

NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft lander is designed for flight on Saturn's moon Titan. See a "half-scale Dragonfly lander model" ...

The Best Books, Movies, Video Games, and Podcasts to Check Out After Watching ‘For All Mankind'

If you need more optimistic tech-utopian sci-fi vibes in your life, I have some suggestions.

Oak Ridge invention may power NASA mission to Neptune's moon

Two Oak Ridge engineers proposed a new nuclear device to power future NASA missions to Neptune and its moon Triton.
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TT Electronics’ Optek Hall-effect sensors selected for NASA Dragonfly mission

TT Electronics, a global provider of mission-critical power and sensing technology, has been selected to supply Hallogic Hall ...
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A Blip on a Telescope in a Colorado Parking Lot Bolstered a Space Mission That Has Found Thousands of Planets … and Counting

The Kepler telescope changed how we saw the sky. It’s just one of the devices we’ve sent out beyond the reach of humans to ...
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The Sky Today on Wednesday, June 3: Juno stands still

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. June 2: Titan stands close to Saturn Asteroid 3 ...