Questions tagged [nasa]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an United States government organization.
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Why are NASA etc so good at hitting tiny targets in tiny time windows?
NASA have a tendency to arrive at targets that are so far away, within seconds of ETA, and statements like " it's like throwing an object from New York and having it hit a particular key on a ...
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Are astronauts really younger than the rest of us after their trips to space? [closed]
I have seen this commented in a million places on social media (see here as well as places like HowStuffWorks, Business Insider, and even Scott Kelly makes the claim in the Guardian. Their reasoning ...
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Space mission for experimental verification of frame-dragging in the strong-gravity limit
Frame-dragging is an important general relativistic effect that has been observed in the weak-field limit by the Gravity Probe B experiment for the gravitational field of the Earth.
Although the ...
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Could NASA and Physisist use the Parker Space Probe to prove Einstein's theory that time slows down the faster one goes outside particle colliders? [closed]
Einstein's theory has already been proven, but only in particle colliders. But the Parker Space Probe at closest approach is approximated to reach speeds of about 430,000 mph or (~0.064% the speed of ...
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How did the electronic components in Parker Solar probe responsible for controlling it and communicating with base station survive high temperatures?
The recent revelations by Nasa that their solar probe had been closer to the Sun by never before distances and aims at getting close to Sun by a mere 6.9 times radius of the Sun around year 2025. ...
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Doubt regarding the positioning of starshade in new world's mission of Nasa
The new worlds mission of NASA has an occulter with the telescope, Why did they place the occulter at a distance instead of attaching it to the telescope such that there is a hole as big as the size ...
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Are there any plans for cosmic ray detectors as part of the new ARTEMIS program?
NASA's new Artemis program involves building several temporary waypoints around and on the moon. One of the side-bonuses for scientists is that this has opened a few new funding avenues for studying ...
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Can drag be neglected, although the object is in motion?
I was researching more about drag and why two things fall at the same time, and I came across Nasa's website (and quite a few more website) which said that, When drag is equal to weight, there is no ...
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Does the Parker Solar Probe experience radiation pressure being so close to the sun?
Since the Parker Solar Probe does close fly-bys around the sun, does it experience any significant radiation pressure from photons emitted by the sun?
Is this push, significant enough to require ...
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What does "rarely" mean in NASA's statement: "technically referred to as an exosphere because it’s so thin, its atoms rarely collide."?
The following statement is from this article:
The behavior of a dense atmosphere is driven by collisions between its
atoms and molecules. However, the moon's atmosphere is technically
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Why must interplanetary visible-light-wavelength laser communication beams be transmitted at very low power levels?
From the March 2021 Scientific American:
Optics. Traveling Photons. A laser-based system could boost deep-space data transfer.
'Laser communication could work with receivers about 20 centimeters ...
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How does the NASA InSight lander determine the depth of a Marsquake?
With only one lander with this type of equipment at one location, how can the InSight lander's investigators be so sure of the depth of the Marsquakes it detects?
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How NASA scientists confirmed that the 'Pale Blue Dot', taken from Voyager, is earth? [closed]
It could be Mars or jupiter also?
https://www.space.com/pale-blue-dot-earth-space-photo-remastered.html
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Method adapted by ISRO
Why does the ISRO change orbits of a satellite in many steps?
I've seen them do this in the MANGALYAAN as well as CHANDRAYAAN II missions.
From what I understand, changing the orbit of the ...
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NASA's "Impossible" Space Engine, Take Two [closed]
This question seems to be a close parallel of this one, but it's about a different design by a different author.
I read a news article about a "helical engine" design by NASA engineer David Burns. ...
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