Sci-fi inspired tractor beams are real, and could solve a major space junk problem

https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/sci-fi-inspired-tractor-beams-are-real-and-could-solve-the-major-problem-of-space-junk

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Hey fans of #TheExpanse NASA is about to test out "tightbeam" communications from deep space!
- DSOC (Deep Space Optical Communications) is an instrument attached to the new #Psyche mission, which launched this morning on its way to study 16 Psyche, a metal-rich asteroid.
- on its way to Mars for a slingshot maneuver, Psyche will use DSOC to test laser communications back & forth with Earth!

#space #scifi #scifact

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/science/space/nasa-launches-psyche-mission-to-10-trillion-dollar-metal-rich-asteroid

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`As far as I’m aware, this is the closest scientists have come to coaxing complex eukaryotic animal cells back to life after tens of thousands of years on ice. We have successfully revived viruses found dormant in the permafrost of thawing regions, but never managed to recover viable cells from a long-dead organism. To be clear, we still haven’t recovered viable cells today, and the researchers acknowledge that they haven’t cracked this problem yet.`

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/287657-scientists-revive-28000-year-old-woolly-mammoth-cells-in-mice #scifi #scifact