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  Washington DC (UPI) Oct 03, 2022 The U.S. space agency, NASA, said it signed an agreement with Elon Musk's SpaceX to study whether the life expectancy of the venerated Hubble Space Telescope can be extended. NASA said Thursday it has no plans to carry out or fund a service mission for the Hubble Space Telescope. Instead, it will carry out a feasibility study to see if SpaceX can use its Crew Dragon capsules to do the heavy lifting. A six-month study aims to collect data that will determine whether Hubble can move into a ... read more |
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NASA eyes November for launch attempt of Moon rocketWashington (AFP) Oct 03, 2022 NASA said Friday it would try to launch its Moon mega-rocket in November, without committing to a precise date for the much-delayed Artemis 1 mission. ... more 
Firefly Aerospace scrubs launch after rocket engine shuts downWashington DC (UPI) Sep 30, 2021 Firefly Aerospace aborted an attempted launch Friday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California after an unexpected engine shutdown. ... more 
Satellite Vu signs SpaceX launch contract to deploy thermal monitoring capabilitiesLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 27, 2022 British Earth Observation company, Satellite Vu has signed a second SpaceX launch contract for their second satellite, doubling their thermal data collection capacity, faster than planned, amidst ri ... more  
China launches multiple satellites in back to back launchesTaiyuan, China (XNA) Sep 27, 2022 China on Tuesday launched a Long March-6 rocket carrying three satellites into space. The rocket blasted off at 7:50 am (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern ... more |
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NASA says Artemis launch before November will be 'difficult'Washington (AFP) Sept 27, 2022 It will be "difficult" for NASA to make a new attempt to launch its massive Moon rocket in October, an official from the US space agency said Tuesday, with a lift-off in November looking more likely. ... more
In new setback, hurricane forces Moon rocket into storageWashington (AFP) Sept 26, 2022 NASA's Artemis 1 rocket - waiting to blast off on a delayed mission to the Moon - will be rolled back into its storage hangar Monday night, the space agency said, as Florida braces for Hurricane Ian. ... more 
SpaceX's Florida launch seen as far as New York, MassachusettsWashington DC (UPI) Sep 24, 2021 Elon Musk's SpaceX sent 52 more Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit on Saturday as the company continues weekly launches to build out its constellation. ... more 
Vandenberg's final Delta 4 Heavy launchedVandenberg SFB CA (SPX) Sep 24, 2022 Team Vandenberg launched a National Reconnaissance Office mission (NROL-91) aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex-6 Saturday, Sept. 24, at 3:25 ... more |
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Northrop Grumman Meets Rocket Motor Casting Milestone on Road to Sentinel's First FlightPromontory UT (SPX) Sep 22, 2022 Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) successfully cast the LGM-35A Sentinel program's first inert stage-one and stage-two solid rocket motor set this summer. The casting event demonstrated the m ... more 
NASA says delayed Moon rocket passed fueling testWashington (AFP) Sept 22, 2022 NASA said Wednesday it had successfully trialed the fueling process for its new rocket, after technical issues a few weeks ago halted two attempts to get the behemoth off the ground and headed towards the Moon. ... more 
Artemis Cryogenic Demonstration test concludes, all objectives metKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Sep 22, 2022 The launch director has confirmed all objectives have been met for the cryogenic demonstration test, and teams are now proceeding with critical safing activities and preparations for draining the ro ... more 
China's manned space program attracts more public attentionBeijing (XNA) Sep 22, 2022 China's manned space program, initiated 30 years ago, has grown more popular among Chinese people, who return with extensive support and a vision for space exploration. On Sept. 21, 1992, Chin ... more |
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Shenzhou XIV astronauts in 4-hour spacewalkBeijing (XNA) Sep 22, 2022 Chinese astronauts on the Shenzhou XIV mission completed their second spacewalk on Saturday afternoon, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Senior Colonel Cai Xuzhe opened an extravehic ... more 
Space missions bring Down-to-Earth benefitsBeijing (XNA) Sep 22, 2022 Spectacle of rocket launches draws throngs of visitors, newfound prosperity to township in coastal Hainan Editor's note: In this series, China Daily looks at some of the areas in which major p ... more 
Taikonauts in orbit salute China's manned space program on 30th anniversaryBeijing (XNA) Sep 22, 2022 The Shenzhou-XIV taikonauts, who are aboard the Tiangong space station, gave an off-Earth salute to all participants in China's 30-year manned space program on Wednesday. In a celebratory vide ... more 
Rocket Lab selects NASA Stennis Space Center for Neutron Engine Test FacilityLong Beach CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has selected NASA's historic Stennis Space Center in Mississippi as the location of its engine test facility for its reusable rocket, Neutron. The Archimedes ... more 
Maritime Launch and Skyrora partner to launch Skyrora XL from Spaceport Nova ScotiaParis, France (SPX) Sep 22, 2022 Maritime Launch Services Inc. (Maritime Launch) (NEO: MAXQ, OTCQB: MAXQF) and Skyrora are pleased to announce that they have signed a Letter of Intent to launch Skyrora XL from Spaceport Nova Scotia ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 29, 2022 
Last week, Perseverance attempted an abrasion on the Chiniak target at Enchanted Lake. Scientists and engineers worked together to plan this activity on an intriguing target of potentially fine-grained rocks at the base of the Jezero delta. But, when the images came down on sol 564 (September 21st), the once coherent rock target was broken, precluding any further proximity science or sampling on ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Sep 29, 2022 
A Curtin-led research team has found asteroid impacts on the Moon millions of years ago coincided precisely with some of the largest meteorite impacts on Earth, such as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
The study also found that major impact events on Earth were not stand-alone events, but were accompanied by a series of smaller impacts, shedding new light on asteroid dynamics in the i ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 03, 2022 
NASA's Juno space probe captured detailed images during a close flyby of Europa, Jupiter's largest moon.
The probe came within 219 miles of the ice-covered celestial body, one of the closest approaches by any spacecraft.
The first image taken by the probe's Junocam was released Thursday. It shows the icy and rugged surface of an area close to Europa's equator, known as the Annwn ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 28, 2022 
The exploration era for the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is getting hot - volcanically hot. A multidisciplinary group of Cornell researchers has modeled and synthesized lava in the laboratory as the kinds of rock that may form on far-away exoplanets. They developed 16 types of surface compositions as a starter catalog for finding volcanic worlds that feature fiery landscapes and oceans ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 03, 2022 
The U.S. space agency, NASA, said it signed an agreement with Elon Musk's SpaceX to study whether the life expectancy of the venerated Hubble Space Telescope can be extended.
NASA said Thursday it has no plans to carry out or fund a service mission for the Hubble Space Telescope. Instead, it will carry out a feasibility study to see if SpaceX can use its Crew Dragon capsules to do the h ... more |
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 Taiyuan, China (XNA) Sep 27, 2022 
China on Tuesday launched a Long March-6 rocket carrying three satellites into space.
The rocket blasted off at 7:50 am (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi and sent the Shiyan 16A, Shiyan 16B and Shiyan 17 satellites into the preset orbit.
Shiyan means "experiment" in Chinese. The Shiyan satellite trio will provide data for land ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 29, 2022 
The James Webb and Hubble telescopes on Thursday revealed their first images of a spacecraft deliberately smashing into an asteroid, as astronomers indicated that the impact looks to have been much greater than expected.
The world's telescopes turned their gaze towards the space rock Dimorphos earlier this week for a historic test of Earth's ability to defend itself against a potential life- ... more |
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 Bothell WA (SPX) Sep 16, 2022 
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering OUSD (R&E) a new benchmark: a tactically-relevant electric 300 kW-class laser, the most powerful laser that Lockheed Martin has produced to date. This 300 kW-class laser is ready to integrate with the DOD demonstration efforts including the U.S. Army's Indirect Fires Protection Capa ... 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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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Sep 29, 2022 
When NASA's 990-pound Dragonfly rotorcraft reaches the Selk crater region - the mission's target touchdown spot - on Saturn's moon Titan in 2034, Cornell's Lea Bonnefoy '15 will have helped to make it a smooth landing.
Bonnefoy and her colleagues assisted the future arrival by characterizing the equatorial, hummocky, knoll-like landscape by combining and analyzing all of the radar images o ... more |
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 Halle, Germany (SPX) Sep 28, 2022 
Strong alternating magnetic fields can be used to generate a new type of spin wave that was previously just theoretically predicted. This was achieved for the first time by a team of physicists from (MLU). They report on their work in the scientific journal Nature Communications and provide the first microscopic images of these spin waves.
The basic idea of spintronics is to use a special ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Sep 18, 2022 
In 1919 astronomers Arthur Eddington and Andrew Crommelin captured photographic images of a total solar eclipse. The Sun was in the constellation Taurus at the time, and a handful of its stars could be seen in the photographs. But the stars weren't quite in their expected place. The tremendous gravity of the Sun had deflected the light of these stars, making them appear slightly out of place. It ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 29, 2022  Astronomers may have discovered the ancient chemical remains of the first stars to light up the Universe. Using an innovative analysis of a distant quasar observed by the 8.1-meter Gemini North telescope on Hawai'i, operated by NSF's NOIRLab, the scientists found an unusual ratio of elements that, they argue, could only come from the debris produced by the all-consuming explosion of a 300-solar- ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 22, 2022 
The SHERLOC and PIXL proximity science instruments on Perseverance have enabled more detailed observations of Martian chemistry and minerology than ever before. PIXL can isolate features as small as a grain of sand. To achieve this, these instruments on the end of the robotic arm must be placed at a precise distance from the feature of interest - very close, but not too close. PIXL even has a "h ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Sep 25, 2022 
During a technical session at IAC, Michael Vergalla, CTO of Outpost, presented a paper on the findings of Outpost's two successful flight tests on a breakthrough technology of an autonomous paraglider re-entry system to enable industry-leading payload Earth return capabilities from orbit.
The tests, conducted in April 2022, are a huge milestone for Outpost in creating a technology that wil ... more |
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