Spacewatch: Nasa awards first contract for lunar space station0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 31, 2019
Maxar wins $375m deal to build the Lunar Gateway’s power and propulsion element
Maxar wins $375m deal to build the Lunar Gateway’s power and propulsion element
It’s been a big week for UFO fans; first, the US government admitted the state had indeed investigated such phenomena, then ex-defense official Christopher Mellon expanded the dialogue on unexplained aircraft even further.
As NASA prepares for a key review of the Europa Clipper mission, a report by the agency’s inspector general warns that the mission’s launch may face delays and significant cost increases.
Some US Navy pilots reported spotting UFOs while training over the East Coast in 2014 and 2015, they said in a recent New York Times report.
In the 1980s, the village of Soumousso in Burkina Faso helped launch one of the most powerful weapons against malaria: insecticide-treated bed nets, which had early field trials there and went on to save millions of lives. But as mosquitoes developed resistance to widely used insecticides, the nets lost some of their power.
The dwarf planet has short-lived ammonia on its icy surface
New chemical process could open up O2 production in space.
Astronomers have found a planet with an atmosphere in a region that was thought to be hostile to such worlds.
You’d have to be living on another planet not to have heard one of the biggest news stories in recent times: After years of denial, it turns out that the US government has a secret program, researching and investigating UFOs.
Using the Devasthal optical telescope in India, astronomers have conducted photometric observations of the globular cluster NGC 4147. The observational campaign yielded the discovery of 28 new variable stars in this cluster. The findings are detailed in a paper published May 20 on the arXiv pre-print server.