Tag: Space
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NASA / Rocket Lab Launch of CAPSTONE (Artemis Pathfinder Mission) Jun 28, 2022
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket that will carry the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft for NASA is seen at Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand, Tuesday, May 17, 2022.A microwave oven-sized CubeSat, CAPSTONE serves as a pathfinder for the orbit planned for Gateway […]
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The Universe: Comets | History
Most short-period or Jupiter-family comets have low inclination orbits (i.e., their orbits lie nearly in the same plane as Earth’s orbit) and are believed to originate in the Kuiper belt. The Kuiper Belt is a region of space. The inner edge begins at the orbit of Neptune, at about 30 AU from the Sun. (1 AU, or […]
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