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NASA Just Lost a Spacecraft

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Is Officially Lost in Space -- but Maybe Not Forever

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission is in jeopardy. It launched on Feb. 27 to send a probe to the moon in search of water. But less than a week after launch, NASA lost track of the spacecraft, which may compromise the mission if NASA can't reestablish contact.

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NASA Just Lost a Spacecraft and the Clock Is Ticking

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer has gone silent, drifting in space with minimal power. Mission teams are working relentlessly to regain contact, using ground-based radar and NASA’s Deep Space Network. If communications can be restored,

Ars Technica · 23h

NASA just lost yet another one of its low-cost planetary missions

Since the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft launched in late February as a rideshare spacecraft along with a Falcon 9 launch, NASA has been providing a series of increasingly worrisome updates about the health of the small orbiter. Trailblazer appears to be spinning and out of contact with engineers back on Earth.

NASA uses GPS on the moon for the first time

“On Earth we can use GNSS signals to navigate in everything from smartphones to airplanes,” Kevin Coggins, deputy associate ...

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NASA Streams 4K Video From Plane To Space Station Via Laser

A Pilatus PC-12 aircraft equipped with a portable laser terminal transmitted 4K video to the International Space Station and back. "Laser communications use infrared light to transmit 10 to 100 times ...

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NASA Launches New Mission to Moon

The agency said Thursday the mission, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is carrying NASA instruments to be utilized ...

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Nasa and Nokia unveil the Moon's first mobile network with Intuitive Machines

Nasa and Nokia are pioneering lunar exploration by launching a mobile network on the Moon as part of Intuitive Machines' IM-2 ...

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'A Roller Coaster': NASA Astronauts Sunita Williams & Butch Wilmore, Stranded In Space For 9 Months, Are Set To Return To Earth

NASA astronauts Sunita 'Suni' Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months, ...

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SpaceX rocket launches private moon lander and NASA 'trailblazer' to hunt for lunar water (video)

SpaceX launched a double moon mission today (Feb. 26), sending a private lunar lander and a NASA orbiter to hunt for signs of ...

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'This is bordering on insanity': NASA diversity efforts hit hard with DEI shutdowns

The Apollo program was canceled in the early 1970s and public interest in the space agency waned. In 1977, Nichelle Nichols — the Black actress who played communications specialist, Lt. Nyota ...

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