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Building on Luna and Mars with StarCrete the double stength concrete
Building infrastructure in space is currently prohibitively expensive and difficult to achieve. Future space construction will need to rely on simple materials that are easily available to astronauts, StarCrete offers one possible solution. The scientists behind the invention used simulated Martian soil mixed with potato starch and a pinch of salt to create the material that is twice as strong a Student-built satellite uses 'beach ball' for an antenna
Scientists and engineers at the University of Arizona have built instruments for three NASA telescopes, led two deep space missions and made it possible to see farther back in space and time than ever before. Adding to this list of space exploration accomplishments is a different type of project - one led entirely by students.
Near the university's main campus, students gather inside a cle Future NASA moonwalkers to sport sleeker spacesuits
Moonwalking astronauts will have sleeker, more flexible spacesuits that come in different sizes when they step onto the lunar surface later this decade.
Exactly what that looks like remained under wraps. The company designing the next-generation spacesuits, Axiom Space, said Wednesday that it plans to have new versions for training purposes for NASA later this summer.
Engineers keep an eye on fuel supply of NASA's oldest Mars orbiter

Measuring the fuel supply on Odyssey, a decades-old spacecraft without a fuel gauge, is no easy task.
Since NASA launched the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter to the Red Planet almost 22 years ago, the spacecraft has looped around Mars more than 94,000 times. That's about the equivalent of 1.37 billion miles (2.21 billion kilometers), a distance that has required extremely careful management of the spacecraft's fuel supply.
Recovering forests regain a quarter of carbon lost from deforestation
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Deep drilling for Mars Momentus' Vigoride-6 spacecraft arrives at SpaceX launch site
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) reports that its Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base for its third demonstration mission targeted to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-7 mission next month.
The Momentus team completed final flight preparations, and the Vigoride-6 OSV is integrated with the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The priorities of this mission include NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology State of the Art Report
In January 2023, NASA published the latest edition of the State of the Art in Small spacecraft Technology report. It is noteworthy that at the time of the first edition of this report in 2013, only 247 CubeSats and 105 other non-CubeSat small spacecraft under 50 kilograms (kg) had been launched worldwide.
This represented less than 2% of the total mass launched into orbit over multiple yea Rutgers scientists identify substance that may have sparked life on earth
A team of Rutgers scientists dedicated to pinpointing the primordial origins of metabolism - a set of core chemical reactions that first powered life on Earth - has identified part of a protein that could provide scientists clues to detecting planets on the verge of producing life.
The research, published in Science Advances, has important implications in the search for extraterrestrial li Alaska study compares ground motion from satellites and seismic records
When it comes to making a rapid estimate of ground motion and moment magnitude for an earthquake, using data from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) might be a good alternative or addition to data from seismic stations.
Researchers were able to compare how well each type of data performed in assessing the 2021 magnitude 8.2 Chignik earthquake in Alaska, as they report in the journa 