Technicians are putting the final touches on the world’s largest digital camera
at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The camera will be sent to Chile
and installed on a telescope in the Andes.
The head of the Russian space agency has said his country will end its
participation in the International Space Station in 2024. What does this mean
for the future of its partnership with NASA?
NASA has lost contact with a satellite called CAPSTONE intended to study a new
kind of orbit around the moon. It’s the same orbit the agency plans to use in
future missions to send humans to the moon.
Twenty teams in Canada received small grants to develop portable medical tools
that could be used on long interplanetary space flights. They could also be
useful in remote parts of Canada.
Twenty teams in Canada received small grants to develop portable medical tools
that could be used on long interplanetary space flights. They could also be
useful in remote parts of Canada.
A vaccine from a Canadian biotech firm Medicago has been found to be effective
at preventing moderate to severe disease. It could soon become the first
plant-based vaccine authorized for human use.