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Earth will get a 'mini-moon' this month

KGAN Cedar Rapids on MSN · 4h

Temporary celestial neighbor: Mini-moon 2024 PT5 to grace Earth's orbit soon

Earth is getting a visitor in our orbit for a couple of months.It's nowhere near the size of our actual moon, but they're calling it a "mini-moon."As we hurl th

Earth will get a second moon this month — but not for long

Earth's orbit will capture a bus-sized asteroid later this month, giving us a second moon for about two months.

The Washington Post on MSN · 1d

Earth has a new mini moon. Say hello before it disappears.

Say hello to Earth’s temporary new mini-moon. From Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, a passing asteroid will be pulled in by Earth’s gravity — sort of like a window shopper — before returning to its normal orbit around the sun.

NASA, Intuitive Machines

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Intuitive Machines lands $4.8B NASA contract to build Earth-moon communications infrastructure

NASA wants to establish a permanent human presence on the moon, but right now, astronauts have to be in direct line of sight with Earth to phone home. The space agency is looking to change that with its developing Near Space Network,

MarketWatch · 15h

A huge NASA contract has sent Intuitive Machines’ stock skyrocketing. This analyst sees even more upside.

Intuitive Machines is “the leading beneficiary of NASA’s lunar commercialization efforts,” says B. Riley Securities analyst Mike Crawford.

Fast Company · 21h

NASA taps Intuitive Machines to build a lunar communications network

NASA awarded Intuitive Machines a long-term contract potentially worth $4.82 billion to develop, launch, and operate a five-satellite communications and navigation network around the moon. The network will enable constant connectivity with the moon’s south pole as traffic picks up there,

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NASA Proposes New Kind of Moon Shot: Literally Shooting the Moon

Multiple bullets containing a tiny spectrometer could be shot into the lunar soil by an astronaut or rover, allowing analysis ...

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NASA's Europa Clipper on track for Oct. 10 launch to Jupiter's icy moon despite radiation worries

NASA's Europa Clipper probe will lift off and embark on a long-awaited mission to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which ...

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Marvel At This NASA Rover Image Of Earth And Mars Moon Phobos

A Mars scientist shares the inside story of the NASA Curiosity rover's poignant first photo of Earth and Mars moon Phobos ...

A NASA probe is about to launch to an icy moon that could have life

A NASA mission launching in October will send cameras and other scientific equipment to see, among other things, whether ...

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NASA rover peers up at space, sees strange Mars moon and distant Earth

The Curiosity rover captured this image on Sept. 9, 2024, during its 4,295th Martian day (called a "sol") on Mars. It's been ...

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NASA confirms it’s developing the Moon’s new time zone

NASA confirmed on Friday that it will create a new lunar time system for the Moon. The White House published a policy memo in ...

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NASA working on creating standard time zone for Moon that could be used elsewhere in solar system

NASA is working on discovering exactly what time it is on the moon by creating a standardized time zone. The space agency ...

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What time is it on the moon? NASA's trying to figure that out

NASA said Thursday its Space Communication and Navigation program is taking the lead on an effort to establish a Coordinated ...

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NASA spacecraft to study Jupiter moon’s underground ocean cleared for October launch

NASA has given the go-ahead to next month’s launch to Jupiter’s moon Europa. Monday's decision came after after reviewing the ...

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NASA takes a giant leap toward streaming 4K video back from the Moon

However, as remarkable a technical achievement as it was to broadcast from the Moon in 1969, the video was grainy and black ...

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