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Blue Origin, NASA Re-Create Moon’s Gravity
Partners use Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket to test out technologies bound for the moon—without actually sending them there ...
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin mimics the moon’s gravity for NASA experiments during spaceflight
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity without straying too far from home.
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Blue Origin Spacecraft Spins Fast Enough to Generate Two Minutes of Moon Gravity in Space
American private space company Blue Origin managed to simulate the gravity of the Moon for about two minutes during New Shepard flight ...
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Blue Origin Spacecraft Spins Fast Enough to Generate Two Minutes of Moon Gravity in Space
The difference between Earth and lunar gravity is one of the challenges space agencies and companies are trying to overcome in their quest to colonize the Moon. Not an easy thing, given how one of ...
How space missions make discoveries on the way to their main destinations
To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...
Failure to launch: Is humanity’s return to the moon doomed?
Turmoil in the scientific community and sweeping changes to NASA have many wondering what the future of the Artemis missions ...
En route to Jupiter, Europa Clipper captures images of stars
Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 ...
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin mimics the moon's gravity for NASA experiments during spaceflight
It was Blue Origin’s first attempt at mimicking lunar gravity, which is one-sixth that of Earth. NASA said it wants to test equipment on short spaceflights to weed out any problems before sending them ...
NASA’s Europa Clipper Captures First Starfield Images From Deep Space
NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...
Sky skimmers: The race to fly satellites in the lowest orbits yet
There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...
Exact time to see February's 'Snow Moon' and how it got its name
February's full Moon is called the Snow Moon, rising on February 12 2025 to create a brilliant lunar glow. After the Moon ...
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Fleet Space wins Moon to Mars grant to develop off-world gravity sensing tech
With the grant, Fleet Space will develop off-world MEMS gravity ... on Earth as part of Fleet Space’s terrestrial end-to-end exploration platform, ExoSphere. By deploying SPIDER on the Moon ...