Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon, dies at 90
Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Nasa has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, showing sunlight bathing jagged crags formed billions of years ago as the car-sized vehicle continues to explore Earthโs planetary neighbour. Curiosity landed in 2012 in Gale Crater near the Martian equator, and since 2014 has been climbing Mount Sharp, โa 5km-tall (3-mile-tall) mountain rising from the crater floor. The image was taken by the six-wheeled roverโs Mastcam camera about an hour after the...
SpaceX launched a new crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station on Thursday, as questions swirl over the companyโs plans for the future of its human spaceflight program. Bloomberg's Loren Grush joins Ed Ludlow as the crew lifts off on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)
SpaceXย launched a new crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station, as questions swirl over the companyโs plans for the future of its human spaceflight program. Once at the ISS, the crew will live and work there for the next six months. The mission is the latest in a series of flights that SpaceX performs for NASA to ensure the ISS is staffed at all times. (Source: Bloomberg)
Founder Elon Musk's rocket, the largest ever built, is meant to carry NASA mission to moon and beyond.
Chinese researchers have tested a new way for spacecraft to navigate in deep space, putting a concept funded by Nasa into practice and paving the way for the countryโs planned mission to Jupiter in 2030. Known as stellar aberration navigation, the approach uses tiny shifts in the relative position of stars to work out how fast a probe is moving and in what direction, allowing autonomous real-time navigation without constantly relying on tracking and commands from Earth. In a low-Earth-orbit...