NASA will attempt the first flight on another world

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NASA will attempt the first flight on another world

by Warp Institute | Jul 30, 2020 | Innovation, Space

This leap will be taken by a small helicopter called Ingenuity.It will both be easier and harder than to fly on Earth.Easier because the gravity on Mars is just 38 percent compared to Earth. Harder because the atmosphere is much thinner, only one percent of...

Mars in 4K

by Warp Institute | Jul 27, 2020 | Space

This story requires few words, because the pictures say it all!The footage from ElderFox Documentaries YouTube Channel has been viewed nearly 9 million times at the time of this post. They summarize the footage below:A world first. New footage from Mars rendered in...

Chinese Mars mission Tianwen-1 blasts off towards the red planet

by Warp Institute | Jul 24, 2020 | Space

China’s first mission to Mars lifted off on July 23rd from Wenchang, China, at 12:41PM local time. The journey to Mars will take seven months, meaning that the spacecraft will arrive at the red planet in February next year. Once there, Tianwen-1 will maneuver into a...

Satellite data to enable real-time tracking of all the world’s carbon emissions

by Warp Institute | Jul 24, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Environment, Space

Leading emissions-tracking tech organizations have joined forces by creating the coalition Climate TRACE (Tracking Real-time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions) to provide real-time tracking of the entire world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as a service to be used in the...

Twin CubeSats ready for empirical testing of faster de-orbiting using space tethers

by Warp Institute | Jul 24, 2020 | Space

Millennium Space Systems has completed qualification testing of a pair of 6U CubeSats built for demonstrating new advancements in enhanced de-orbiting of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in a mission called DRAGRACER. The two satellites, built by Millennium Space...

The UAE has launched its first interplanetary spacecraft, bound for Mars

by Warp Institute | Jul 20, 2020 | Space

Lift-off occurred on July 19 at 6:58AM local time from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center.The probe (which is about the size of a car) will now spend the next seven months traveling through deep space, after which it will attempt to enter into an elongated orbit...