Rover And Descent Stage Will Be Shipped To Florida This Winter
Engineers and technicians working on the assembly and testing of the Mars 2020 spacecraft have recently completed a successful separation test at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA.
Eight briefcase-size satellites flying in a row may be key to improving forecasts of a hurricane's wind speed - detecting whether it will make landfall as a Category 1 or a Category 5. NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) fleet, launched in 2016, was designed to show whether the same GPS signals your phone uses for navigation can be used to measure winds deep within a hurricane or typhoon. The answer appears to be a resounding yes.
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