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NASA Engineers Craft Lifesaving Repair Kit for Space Station’s NICER Telescope


NASA is set to repair the NICER telescope on the ISS with a specially designed patch kit during a spacewalk. The telescope, crucial for studying neutron stars and X-ray phenomena, was damaged in May 2023, leading to a rapid design and testing of a solution. The upcoming mission will make NICER the

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