In late 2019, Hayabusa2 left Ryugu . Testing will start nearly immediately on the returned material. The Japanese Hayabusa-2 spacecraft lands on an asteroid to collect samples. Some theories posit that an asteroid first delivered amino acids to our planet. "When I was in college in Japan in the 1990s, my college adviser told me about how the only samples we had were from the Apollo missions... [Full Article...]
Chang'e 5's lander module, which remained on the moon, is equipped to both scoop samples from the surface and drill 2 metres (more than 6 feet) to retrieve materials that could provide clues to the history of the moon, Earth other planets and space features. [Full Article...]
This morning, SpaceX is set to launch its latest batch of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station , but the company is using a slightly different spacecraft for this flight than resupply missions of the past. As for more personal presents for the four Americans, two Russians and one Japanese on board, "I don't like to get out in front of Santa Claus". With the new version operatio... [Full Article...]
That's exponentially faster than existing supercomputers. The research was published on Science magazine online. Quantum supremacy is described by the ability of a quantum machine to do a workload, which seems unfeasible for a conventional computer. [Full Article...]
This will see countries around the world called on to set ambitious NDC targets or other climate plans. The Committee on Climate Change has recommended the United Kingdom should commit to cutting emissions by at least 68% on 1990 levels by 2030, under its Paris plans, known as "nationally determined contributions" or NDCs. [Full Article...]
The couple's arrest is the latest known incident of infected passengers ignoring health and safety guidelines when traveling to Hawaii . The island of Kaua'i has been doing everything it can to avoid the spread of COVID-19, and as ABC 7 reports , these two new infections bring the current number of active cases on the island to 17, up from 15. [Full Article...]
On Wednesday, the government space agency said the object known as "2020 SO" is not an asteroid , but rather a part of a Centaur rocket booster from the Surveyor 2 spacecraft, which launched toward the moon in 1966. "Because of the extreme speed at which Earth-orbiting Centaur boosters travel across the sky, we knew it would be extremely hard to lock on with the IRTF [Infrared Telescope Facility... [Full Article...]
It was a lovely fireball, and I was so impressed", said JAXA's Hayabusa2 project manager Yuichi Tsuda as he celebrated the successful capsule return and safe landing from a command center in Sagamihara, near Tokyo. They are particularly interested in analysing organic materials in the samples. Asteroids resemble extras from the development of our solar system, protecting data about the origins... [Full Article...]