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  "id": 18204482,
  "title": "NASA navigation experiment shows promise for planetary landings",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/nasa-navigation-experiment-shows-promise-for-planetary-landings-18204482",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-04T23:20:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
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    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-nasa-planetary.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "NASA has successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency's Safe and Precise Landing—Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) guidance, navigation and control payload completed simulated lunar descent and landing maneuvers Aug. 27. The flight took place at…",
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      {
        "outlet": "NASA Science",
        "title": "NASA Navigation Experiment Shows Promise for Planetary Landings",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/nasa-navigation-experiment-shows-promise-for-planetary-landings",
        "published": "2026-11-04T16:52:43.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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