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  Beijing (XNA) Sep 05, 2022 Chinese astronauts on the Shenzhou XIV mission have carried out their first spacewalk, also known as an extravehicular activity, which finished early on Friday morning, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Mission commander Senior Colonel Chen Dong opened an extravehicular activity hatch on the Tiangong space station at 6:26 pm on Thursday Beijing time and then floated out of the station. He was followed by female crew member Senior Colonel Liu Yang, the agency said in a news release. ... read more |
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Rocket to carry Mengtian space lab module arrives at launch siteWenchang, China(XNA) Sep 05, 2022 A Long March-5B Y4 rocket, tasked with sending China's space station lab module Mengtian into orbit, has been transported to the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern province of Hainan, t ... more  
NASA unsure next Moon rocket launch attempt possible this monthKennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Sept 4, 2022 After scrapping a second attempt to get its new 30-story lunar rocket off the ground due to a fuel leak, NASA officials said Saturday it may not be possible to try again this month. ... more 
Rocket Lab completes first test fire of reused Rutherford EngineLong Beach CA (SPX) Sep 02, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has successfully test fired a reused Rutherford first stage engine for the first time - a significant technical achievement in the Company's efforts to make its El ... more 
SpaceX wins another $1.4 billion from NASA to fly missions to ISSWashington DC (UPI) Sep 1, 2021 NASA has awarded five new missions to private exploration company SpaceX in a deal worth $1.4 billion that will transport astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station over the next eight years. ... more |
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Chinese scientist advocates int'l cooperation in space scienceBeijing (XNA) Sep 02, 2022 A thousand people may have a thousand answers as to why we explore space. For 64-year-old Chinese scientist Wu Ji, exploring space has a more self-reflective meaning. "When one enters space, o ... more 
Plant growth in China's space lab in good conditionBeijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2022 The seeds of two plants in China's Wentian lab module have germinated and are now in good condition, according to a briefing on the progress of plant culture experiments in the country's space stati ... more 
New launch attempt Saturday for NASA's Moon rocket: officialKennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Aug 30, 2022 NASA will make a second attempt to launch its powerful new Moon rocket on Saturday, after scrubbing a test flight earlier in the week, an official said. ... more 
China's Shenzhou-14 astronauts carry out spacewalkBeijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2022 Two astronauts on board China's Tiangong space station successfully completed a six-hour spacewalk Friday, the national human spaceflight agency said. ... more |
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NASA says weather, SLS rocket look good for Artemis I launch on SaturdayWashington DC (UPI) Sep 2, 2021 NASA says it will try again on Saturday to send its giant moon rocket and a space capsule to the moon and back - the first Artemis mission - after multiple problems that spoiled the first attempt were fixed. ... more 
NASA Moon rocket ready for second attempt at liftoffKennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Sept 3, 2022 After technical issues halted its first launch attempt, NASA will try again on Saturday to get its new 30-story rocket off the ground and send its unmanned test capsule towards the Moon. ... more
NASA scrubs launch of giant Moon rocket, may try again FridayKennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Aug 29, 2022 NASA has scrubbed a test flight of its powerful new rocket, in a setback to its plan to send humans back to the Moon and eventually to Mars, but may shoot for another launch attempt on Friday. ... more 
Maritime Launch to begin construction of Spaceport Nova ScotiaCanso, Canada (SPX) Aug 30, 2022 Nova Scotia is a step closer to becoming a global destination for commercial space launch as Maritime Launch Services (Nova Scotia) Ltd. (Maritime Launch or "the Company") (NEO: MAXQ, OTCQB: MAXQF) ... more |
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Saturn V was loud but didn't melt concreteWashington DC (SPX) Aug 30, 2022 The Saturn V carried man to the moon and remains the most powerful rocket to successfully launch to orbit. It captures the imagination - but sometimes, it might capture a bit too much imagination. A ... more
NASA calls off Monday launch of Moon rocketKennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Aug 29, 2022 NASA called off the test flight on Monday of its largest-ever Moon rocket because of a temperature issue with one of the four giant engines. ... more
NASA readies for Saturday Moon rocket launch attemptKennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Sept 2, 2022 The stars appear to be aligned for NASA's Moon rocket to finally blast off on Saturday, with weather forecasts favorable and technical issues that postponed the launch earlier this week resolved. ... more
Northrop Grumman's boosters ready to launch Artemis to LunaKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 28, 2022 Two Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) five-segment solid rocket boosters will help launch the first flight of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, Flo ... more 
Glenn's legacy of testing spacecraft spans from Apollo to ArtemisCleveland OH (SPX) Aug 28, 2022 In early 2020, NASA's Glenn Research Center achieved a major milestone for the Artemis Program by verifying that the systems on NASA's new Orion spacecraft functioned in a simulated space environmen ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 05, 2022 
Well, not quite. But for scientists like me, who study atmospheric and aeolian (wind-driven) processes, wind-blown dust is extremely important to understand on Mars. Because the Martian atmosphere is so thin, adding even a small amount of dust greatly increases the amount of sunlight absorbed, which greatly affects temperature, which in turn affects the entire atmospheric circulation.
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 Dorking UK (SPX) Aug 30, 2022 
UCL researchers are helping NASA prepare for its Artemis programme moon missions by creating high-resolution 3D models of potential landing sites. Professor Jan-Peter Muller and PhD student Alfiah Putri (both UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) were commissioned by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to create a 3D model and image of a possible landing site known as Aristarchus - a crater 4 ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 02, 2022 
NASA's Juno spacecraft observed the complex colors and structure of Jupiter's clouds as it completed its 43rd close flyby of the giant planet on July 5, 2022.
Citizen scientist Bjorn Jonsson created these two images using raw data from the JunoCam instrument aboard the spacecraft. At the time the raw image was taken, Juno was about 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops, ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Sep 02, 2022 
For the first time, astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system. The exoplanet is a gas giant, meaning it has no rocky surface and could not be habitable.
The image, as seen through four different light filters, shows how Webb's powerful infrared gaze can easily capture worlds beyond our solar system, pointing the way ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Sept 4, 2022 
After scrapping a second attempt to get its new 30-story lunar rocket off the ground due to a fuel leak, NASA officials said Saturday it may not be possible to try again this month.
The current launch window for NASA's Artemis 1 mission to the Moon ends Tuesday and is "definitely off the table," said Jim Free, associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development, at a press conference ... more |
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 Wenchang, China(XNA) Sep 05, 2022 
A Long March-5B Y4 rocket, tasked with sending China's space station lab module Mengtian into orbit, has been transported to the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern province of Hainan, the China Manned Space Agency said Saturday.
The rocket will undergo final assembly and testing together with the Mengtian lab module, which arrived earlier.
Preparations for the launch mis ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 02, 2022 
With an eye toward a possible return mission years in the future, Cornell University astronomers have shown how smooth terrains - a good place to land a spacecraft and to scoop up samples - evolve on the icy world of comets.
By applying thermal models to data gathered by the Rosetta mission - which caught up to the barbell-shaped Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko almost a decade ago - they s ... more |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered to the U.S. Navy a 60+ kW-class high energy laser with integrated optical-dazzler and surveillance (HELIOS), the first tactical laser weapon system to be integrated into existing ships and provide directed energy capability to the fleet.
Integrated and scalable by design, the multi-mission HELIOS system will provide tactically relevant laser weapon sys ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 
Lockheed Martin recently validated prototype communications radio technology for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) during a recent test milestone.
The NGI's mission is to protect the U.S. homeland from increasing and evolving intercontinental ballistic missile threats. Critically, the interceptor and its components must be able to receive and share data from the ground and throughout t ... more |
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 Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Aug 09, 2022 
Saturn will soon be at its biggest and brightest of the year, and Lowell Observatory is celebrating with nightly public telescope viewing. For the next several weeks, visitors will be able to gaze at this gas giant and see its dazzling system of rings, as well as some of its larger moons.
This Saturn viewing season centers around the planet's August 14 opposition. The term opposition indic ... more |
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Sep 05, 2022 
What goes on inside planets like Neptune and Uranus? To find out, an international team headed by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the University of Rostock and France's Ecole Polytechnique conducted a novel experiment. They fired a laser at a thin film of simple PET plastic and investigated what happened using intensive laser flashes.
One result was that the researchers we ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 26, 2022 
Could one of the biggest puzzles in astrophysics be solved by reworking Albert Einstein's theory of gravity? A new study co-authored by NASA scientists says not yet.
The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, and scientists don't know why. This phenomenon seems to contradict everything researchers understand about gravity's effect on the cosmos: It's as if you threw an apple in the ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Sep 02, 2022 
Japanese and U.S. physicists have used atoms about 3 billion times colder than interstellar space to open a portal to an unexplored realm of quantum magnetism. "Unless an alien civilization is doing experiments like these right now, anytime this experiment is running at Kyoto University it is making the coldest fermions in the universe," said Rice University's Kaden Hazzard, corresponding theory ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 01, 2022 
Human languages are notoriously complex, and linguists have long thought it would be impossible to teach a machine how to analyze speech sounds and word structures in the way human investigators do.
But researchers at MIT, Cornell University, and McGill University have taken a step in this direction. They have demonstrated an artificial intelligence system that can learn the rules and patt ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 1, 2022 
One year after US forces retreated from Afghanistan, Washington now counts only on its drones to continue the fight against the Islamic extremist groups that drew it to invade the country 21 years ago.
But experts say that is not going to be enough to counter the resurgence of Al-Qaeda, or its jihadist rival Islamic State, inside the country now back under the rule of the Islamist Taliban. ... more |
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