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by Kaye Dee It's been a busy month in deep space exploration, with new space probes exploring the Moon and conditions in interplanetary space, while another step forward in testing the hardware for the Apollo programme has just taken place. Surveying the Moon NASA may have called its lunar soft lander Surveyor 1, but its ... Continue reading [August 26, 1966] Shooting the Moon - and Going Even Further (Lunar Orbiter, AS-202 and Pioneer 7)
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Anarticle in New Scientistabout the Voyager 1 space craft caught the Crotchety eye the other day. It reports that the primary thrusters that keep Voyager's antenna pointing towards Earth are beginning to fail. Voyager does have backup thrusters but they had not been fired since 1980 so NASA's engineers did not know if they would...
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[AI summary] NASA has shut down two science instruments on the Voyager spacecraft to conserve power and extend their mission into the 2030s.
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Observations of "Little Red Dot" ancient galaxies by the James Webb Space Telescope could answer the question: which comes first, the black hole or its galaxy?
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