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NASA is developing a trio of helicopters for the SkyFall mission to search for shallow water ice on Mars. The helicopters will use ground-penetrating radar with a flexible, fabric-based antenna that folds during landings and recently passed extensive testing at JPL. The mission is targeted for a 2028 launch aboard the nuclear-powered Space Reactor-1 spacecraft.
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory performed a coordinated power and thermal procedure on Voyager 2, dubbed the 'Big Bang,' freeing nearly 10 watts and extending the mission of its three active science instruments by at least a year. The spacecraft, nearly 49 years old, continues to lose about four watts of power annually as its plutonium-238 source decays. NASA plans to apply the same reconfiguration to Voyager 1 in the coming months.
President Donald Trump will award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II crew on Aug. 28 at Johnson Space Center, recognizing their record-breaking journey around the moon. The crew, consisting of Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen, traveled 252,756 miles from Earth, surpassing Apollo 13's record.
A Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian city of Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan killed at least 13 people and wounded 48, according to local officials. Ukraine's military said it struck the Taneco oil refinery, part of a campaign targeting Russian oil infrastructure that Kyiv says funds the war effort.