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Artemis program

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft launches on the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard on May 30, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo by SpaceX via Getty Images)

NASA looks to spur development of commercial satellite services it can use

Slow satellite data transmission hampers the agency's near-Earth science missions, but new constellations promise real-time streaming.
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A Falcon 9 rocket carrying SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft launches on the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard on May 30, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo by SpaceX via Getty Images)

Edge computing is critical to NASA’s Mars ambitions

Astronauts need the ability to process data in real time in order to establish a sustainable presence on the moon en route to Mars.
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