The deep-space robotic equipment dubbed “Psyche” is due to be launched on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in late summer 2022. It will whizz past Mars and then set about measuring a nearby asteroid’s features. NASA is preparing to finally send an overwhelmingly advanced space robot to a 140-mile wide […]
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Tech 15:40 GMT 11.05.2020(updated 15:41 GMT 11.05.2020) Get short URL Several space rocks are expected to cross paths with earth this month, but the largest one, and potentially the most dangerous, is the Apollo-class 1997 BQ asteroid, as researchers believe that any space objects measuring close to one kilometre in […]
US 00:39 GMT 06.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107874/25/1078742509_0:0:3067:1726_1200x675_80_0_0_04423cb93f897ced6cf0b5d5ef230820.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202005061079208665-nasa-us-space-force-roll-out-ten-year-plan-to-address-near-earth-asteroid-flybys/ The plan comes as the scientific community expects the Apophis asteroid to come close enough to Earth in 2029 for astronomers to study its size, shape, composition and possibly its interior, as close flybys of objects this […]