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In a major setback for Zoom, the Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX has banned the use of the video conferencing application due to its security policies which have raised doubts of misusing the information.

The chopper will be sent to the Mars this summer with NASA's Perseverance rover. The chopper has been parked at at Kennedy Space Center waiting to hitch a ride to the Red Planet this summer.

The researchers have been trying ways to find out how material available on the Moon can be utilised to a maximum to build bases. While rocks can be used from the planet, urea present in the urine of astronauts can be used to keep them bound.

NASA's new announced mission, called the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE), will be conducting a study on the solar storms created by the sun. NASA has awarded $62.6 million to design, build and launch SunRISE by no earlier than July 1, 2023.

NASA has announced a new social media special – NASA at Home or #NASAatHome. Under this the space agency will be showcasing all its latest space explorations, along with other content to keep you updated and engaged with the universe.

Last year, NASA had asked out companies who would want to deliver cargo to a proposed station in orbit around the Moon, called the Lunar Gateway. On Friday, NASA notified that SpaceX has won the "Gateway Logistics" contract.

A plasmoid is a bubble of plasma or charged particles. They are normally found at the edge of a planet’s magnetic sleeve and are responsible to pull charged particles out of a planet’s atmosphere into space. In the new observations from the magnetic data of the Voyager 2 flyby it has been found that a plasmoid release was likely during that zigzag, and probable the atmosphere of Uranus, which is gas, could be leaking into space.

Over 10.9 million names will be sent to Mars after NASA, under "Send Your Name to Mars" campaign, asked people around the world to submit their names to ride aboard the agency's next rover to the Red Planet.

NASA's Voyager 2 has been deployed to study the outer planets in our solar system and their behavior. Voyager 2 studied Uranus in 1986 and the scientists were going through the findings when they discovered a secret about the planet.

NASA has suspended its project on building and testing the rocket and capsule for its Artemis manned mission to the Moon. The decision has been taken due to the rising number of coronavirus cases in the community.