ESCAPADE spacecraft complete Earth flybys on journey to Mars
Positive NASA’s ESCAPADE mission has cleared a key departure milestone: both spacecraft have completed powered flybys of Earth and are now traveling toward Mars. Each maneuver combined Earth’s gravity with a sustained engine burn. NASA says the pair remains on course to arrive at the Red Planet in September 2027, marking the next leg of the mission.
Four volunteers complete NASA’s second yearlong Mars simulation
Positive After 378 days without windows, sounds of the outside world or real-time calls with family and friends, four research volunteers stepped out of NASA’s Mars Dune Alpha habitat on Oct. 31. Ross Elder, Ellen Ellis, James Spicer and Matthew Montgomery thereby completed NASA’s second yearlong Mars surface simulation, CHAPEA Mission 2.
Positive IBM unveiled its Quantum System Two at Hyde Park Labs in Chicago, with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and company officials present. The system is expected to move to a national center for algorithm and application development at a South Chicago quantum computing campus after the center opens.
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