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Spacecraft launched to explore our solar system. Panel of scientists who worked on the Voyager Mission recounts the project genesis and discussed the discoveries made so far. Today in aere gallery that celebrates human and oration in earth orbit and human. Human exploration in earth orbit and beyond. We are here today to celebrate and commemorate with them the 40th anniversary of the voyager spacecraft. It was an epic mission to explore the outer planets. Commission that stands out as one of the...

Were here to commemorate with them the 48th anniversary of the voyager spacecrafts. It was an epic mission to exprope explore the outer plants and is one of the most ambitious that nasa has ever sent out to the solar system. The mission for me has personal relevance not because i was ever involved with it. But because as a child, encounters with the planet uranus and neptune i was too young to enjoy the fly buys of jupiter and saturn, but uranus and neptune, i remember quite clearly the images o...

I am sure it is old news to most if not all of Science 2.0s readers that NASA recruited Vint Cerf to help adapt Internet technology to space mission communications in 2000; and that they successfully tested a new protocol in 2008. I have no doubt that the engineers can put together a pretty reliable interplanetary network.

The agency’s DSN provides critical communications and navigation services to dozens of space missions, and it’s being modernized to support dozens more.

Scientists, designers and engineers across the space industry are working tirelessly to form innovative solutions for traveling to, living on and further understanding Mars. 

Text Size: A+ Bengaluru: Once upon a time, billions of years ago, a star died. It let out a pulse of extremely high energy — a gamma ray burst (GRB), as the astronomers call it — that was detected on Earth just last year. Lasting less than a second, it was the shortest of its kind ever observed.  And it appears to have challenged some existing models that govern the way these bursts are seen.      Astronomers looking through NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observed a puls...

Share Plasma bursts from a magnetar starquake in this artist’s conception, an eruption that can create a gamma ray flare. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith/USRA/GESTAR Nature’s most magnetic objects, ripped apart in starquakes, can unleash powerful flashes of light Apr. 8, 2021 , 2:00 PM On 15 April 2020, a wave of gamma rays, nature’s most powerful kind of light, washed across the Solar System like a storm front. First contact came above Mars, where photons at ener...

A research team led by Professor Soebur Razzaque from the University of Johannesburg predicted gamma-ray burst (GRB) behaviour. One such burst recently disrupted cell phone reception in South Africa. While Earth gets blasted by mild short GRBs regularly, the research team found that giant flare GRB 200415A came from another possible source. It erupted from a very rare, powerful neutron star called a magnetar, a star dying soon after the beginning of the Universe. Their findings were published i...

Powerful cosmic eruptions traced to brilliant magnetar in nearby galaxy Space 1/21/2021 Charles Q. Choi © Provided by Space The Interplanetary Network triangulated the location of a gamma-ray burst catalogued as "GRB 200415A" to the center of the nearby Sculptor galaxy, or NGC 253, located about 11.4 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Sculptor. Astronomers may have captured the first good look at giant flares from the strongest magnets in the universe. The ...

NASA Missions Unmask Magnetar Eruptions in Nearby Galaxies On April 15, 2020, a brief burst of high-energy light swept through the solar system, triggering instruments on several NASA and European spacecraft. Now, multiple international science teams conclude that the blast came from a supermagnetized stellar remnant known as a magnetar located in a neighboring galaxy. This finding confirms long-held suspicions that some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) – cosmic eruptions detected in the sky almost da...