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Engineering alum will pilot SpaceX Dragon to space station in 2023
Astronaut and EECS alum Warren “Woody” Hoburg will head to the International Space Station with the SpaceX Crew-6 mission in spring 2023 […]
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AI reveals unsuspected math underlying search for exoplanets
A machine learning algorithm UC Berkeley astronomers created to speed the detection of exoplanets by microlensing also pointed to problems in the mathematical theory for interpreting such observations […]
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Berkeley students flip, float and experiment on zero gravity flight
Aboard Zero-G’s G-Force One aircraft, researchers battled motion sickness and weightlessness to test promising new space technologies […]
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Study of salty water deepens our understanding of icy planets’ oceans
UC Berkeley engineers used an innovative technique to measure the lowest temperature at which salty water can remain a liquid at the high pressures present in icy moon oceans […]
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Solar beats nuclear at many potential settlement sites on Mars
State-of-the-art photovoltaics are light, flexible and efficient, which means that for many potential settlement sites, solar would be more practical than nuclear power […]
