NASA’s Space Reactor-1 Freedom keeps moving toward a late-2028 launch as the first spacecraft ever built to run fission power beyond Earth’s orbit. Announced back in March during the agency’s Ignition event, the mission pairs a compact reactor with hardware already under construction for the canceled lunar Gateway station. That reuse lets engineers hit the […]
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Japan launches ambitious robotic mission to land on Martian moon Phobos, return samples to Earth
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Japan launched an ambitious $350 million mission to Mars on Monday to study the red planet’s two moons in unprecedented detail, dropping a small rover on the largest — Phobos — before the mothership touches down to robotically collect soil samples for return to Earth. The primary goal of the Martian Moons Exploration mission, or […]
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Porsche chose a pier in Queens for the world premiere of its Mission S vision model yesterday, a spot that once framed the earliest photographs of the 550 Spyder back in 1953. That deliberate return to a mid-engine layout sets the tone for a new super sports car platform that will sit permanently above the […]
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Famed aviator Amelia Earhart vanished nearly 90 years ago on her quest to become the first woman to fly around the globe. A team of archaeologists are the latest to try to solve one of history’s greatest mysteries. What happened to Amelia Earhart? These archaeologists are on a mission to find out. #happened #Amelia #Earhart […]
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Afghanistan condemns Pakistan as U.N. mission says airstrikes killed 10 civilians, “most of them children”
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Islamabad — Pakistan launched new airstrikes in Afghanistan overnight, killing at least 10 people, most of them children, the United Nations mission in the country said Thursday. Islamabad claimed the attacks targeted militants with Pakistani insurgent groups who have mounted attacks on the country, but Afghanistan’s Taliban government accused the neighboring nation of aggression, saying […]
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Volkswagen Puts the XL1’s Slippery Shape Back on Public Roads as the Mission Efficiency
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Volkswagen unveiled Mission Efficiency today as a near-production electric 2+2 coupe whose entire brief is to waste as little energy as possible. The car is a clear nod to the 2013 XL1, the plug-in hybrid teardrop that once held the title of the most economical production car on sale. This time the powertrain is fully […]
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Fermi Explorer Mission is a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit in Redmond, Washington with a four-line spec that reads like a dare. Launch a spacecraft toward another star before the end of 2029. Keep design, build, launch, and operations under $15 million. Carry at least one kilogram inside a 10-by-10-by-10-centimeter box. Close at least 99 percent of […]
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China postpones Chang’e-7 moon launch as mission fails to meet launch conditions, officials say
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China said on Sunday it was postponing its planned ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission, which was set to carry out explorations including searching for water ice on the moon. The Chang’e-7 spacecraft was originally set to lift off in the coming days from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on China’s southern Hainan Island. The mission does […]
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Apple TV+ has just released the first teaser for Mayday, a Cold War thriller that already offers more than your typical spy thriller after just one minute of viewing. Ryan Reynolds plays Lieutenant Troy “Assassin” Kelly, a Navy pilot on a top-secret SR-71 surveillance mission that goes catastrophically wrong and crashes deep into the Soviet […]