A full moon is seen rising behind skyscrapers at Canary Wharf and the London skyline (Reuters) Tonight is international ‘Observe the Moon Night’ and what better way to celebrate than to take a moment and look up this evening. You won’t see a full moon – that’s not happening until October 13 – but you […]
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The year 2017 was the year of Bitcoin. Its price rose by a stunning 20x and the whole world suddenly wanted to get a share of the “new gold”. The “Bitcoin bubble” refers mainly to the last two months of that year, November and December. At that time, anyone who said anything online about Bitcoin
The reaction at the Indian Space Research Organization was dismay when India’s lunar lander apparently crashed on descent. U.S. companies also felt the failure. (Jagadeesh Nv/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) The team was gathered in a conference room last week, about 35 in all, ready to celebrate India’s triumph: the country’s first lunar landing. Like many watching the live-stream
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tech2 News StaffSep 13, 2019 20:39:10 IST At night today which is 13 September viewers can witness the ‘Harvest Moon’ which happens to the first time in 20 years that the full moon has coincided with Friday the 13th. The Moon. What is the Harvest Moon? A Harvest Moon happens to be the full moon nearest
Fans of sci-fi and fringe tech may already be familiar with the idea of the “space elevator,” which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like — and totally impossible with today’s technology. But a pair of scientists think they’ve found an alternative: a Moon elevator. And it’s slightly less insane… technically. The idea of
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Jim Logan, a former NASA flight surgeon who is the co-founder of the Space Enterprise Institute, shows plan for putting a space settlement inside the Martian moon Deimos. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) The smaller of Mars’ two moons, Deimos, was named after the Greek god of terror — but the way former NASA flight
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The lander module from India’s moon mission was located on the lunar surface on Sunday, one day after it lost contact with the space station, and efforts are underway to try to establish contact with it, the head of the nation’s space agency said. The Press Trust of India news agency cited Indian Space and
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India’s space agency said it lost touch with its Vikram lunar lander on Saturday as it made its final approach to the moon’s south pole to deploy a rover to search for signs of water. The fate of the lander — whether it crashed or landed — wasn’t immediately known. A successful landing would have
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BANGALORE, India — India’s attempt to land a robotic spacecraft near the moon’s South Pole on Saturday appeared to end in failure. The initial parts of the descent went smoothly. But less than two miles above the surface, the trajectory diverged from the planned path. The mission control room fell silent as communications from the
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India’s moon-bound spacecraft may have crashed into the lunar surface during its descent on Friday, an astronomer said. Called Vikram, the robot is part of a larger $140 million mission called Chandrayaan-2. Vikram deployed from an orbiting spacecraft earlier in the day to make its descent, and everything was going as planned until about 1.3
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