ULA and SpaceX split military launch contract awards – Spaceflight Now

[ad_1] Artist’s illustration of a Vulcan Centaur launch. Credit: United Launch Alliance The US Space Force announced on Tuesday that it had awarded $ 384 million in contracts to the United Launch Alliance and SpaceX, giving each company two missions to launch military satellites in 2023. United Launch Alliance has won task orders for the … Read more

Perseverance Rover’s SuperCam science instrument delivers first results – NASA’s Mars Exploration Program

[ad_1] The powerful science tool’s data includes the sounds of its laser zapping a boulder to test what it’s made of. The first readings from the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover have arrived on Earth. SuperCam was jointly developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico and a consortium of French research … Read more

Snowflake photos like you’ve never seen them before

[ad_1] Sextillions of snowflakes fell from the sky this winter. That’s billions of billions of them, now mostly melted as spring approaches. Few people looked at them closely, one by one. Kenneth G. Libbrecht, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, has spent a quarter of a century trying to figure out how … Read more

The high-ranking women of Bronze Age Spain may have wielded political power

[ad_1] The researchers said ruling class women may have played an important role in the governance of El Argar society, the Mediterranean Social Archaeoecology Research Group at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona said in a press release on Thursday. The team analyzed funerary objects found in a princely tomb at the site of La Almoloya, in … Read more

Meteorite hits UK driveway contains rare materials

[ad_1] On February 28, citizens of Northern Europe and the United Kingdom saw a meteorite fall to Earth in a fireball. The event is particularly exciting for some experts who believe that the specific and very rare materials of the rock could lead to answer certain questions about the universe. After the meteorite crossed the … Read more

NASA releases audio recordings of the first wind sounds and laser strikes captured on Mars

[ad_1] NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) released two historic audio recordings of the surface of Mars on Wednesday. In the first audio clip, recorded using the Perseverance Mars rover’s two microphones, listeners can hear the wind. NASA’S CHANDRA OBSERVATORY LOOKING AT BARRED SPIRAL GALAXY AT 86 MILLION LIGHT YEARS In its article on SoundCloud, NASA … Read more

NASA finds evidence of particle jet from black hole in early universe

[ad_1] Astronomers at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence of a jet of particles from a supermassive black hole in the early universe. The source of the X-ray jet is a quasar, or a fast-growing supermassive black hole, named PSO J352.4034-15.3373 or PJ352-15. The quasar sits at the center of a young galaxy and … Read more