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Why NASA is crashing a $300m spacecraft into an asteroid

The DART probe is part of a mission to see if future collisions between asteroids and Earth can be stopped
Space • 18 May 22

3D-printed rockets: the tech driving the private space race

Space companies are now moving away from subtractive manufacturing processes – which remove material to shape a part – to additive manufacturing processes that build up a part by adding material to it bit by bit.
Space • 20 Sep 21

Here's the rocket science when it comes to landing on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover is set for a nail-biting landing on the red planet later this week
Space exploration • 16 Feb 21

How a 19th century Irish mathematician helped NASA into space

William Rowan Hamilton's discovery of quaternions in Cabra played a revolutionary role in many of NASA's space missions
Brainstorm • 16 Oct 19

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