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October 10, 2022
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Rocket Lab successfully launches 31st Electron rocket



Long Beach CA (SPX) Oct 10, 2022
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has broken its annual launch record with the launch of "It Argos Up From Here," a dedicated launch for General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS). The mission was Rocket Lab's 31st Electron launch overall and the eighth for the year to date, besting the company's previous record of seven launches in 2020. Rocket Lab has now successfully launched a mission every month since April 2022, delivering frequent and reliable access to orbit. "It Argos Up From Here ... read more

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NASA's Crew-5 mission casts long exposure light beam
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Oct 10, 2022
In this 20-second exposure from Oct. 5, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission from our Kennedy Space Center in Flor ... more
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Successful TEXUS 57 Launch - the weightless world above the Arctic Circle
Kiruna, Sweden (SPX) Oct 07, 2022
The TEXUS 57 sounding rocket was successfully launched on the first launch attempt on 1 October at 08:26 local time (06:26 UTC) from the Esrange Space Centre in Sweden to enable microgravity experim ... more
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Rocket Lab to launch environmental monitoring satellite for General Atomics
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2022
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) is preparing to launch its 31st Electron rocket and 151st satellite to orbit during a dedicated mission for General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) on Fr ... more
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First successful test of the Ariane 6 upper stage at DLR Lampoldshausen
Lampoldshausen, Germany (SPX) Oct 07, 2022
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) site in Lampoldshausen successfully tested the upper stage of Ariane 6 for the first time on 5 October 2022. A hot-fire t ... more
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SpaceX's Crew 5 mission blasts off to ISS with Russian cosmonaut onboard
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 5, 2021
NASA and SpaceX's Crew 5 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at noon EDT on Wednesday and is on its way to the International Space Station. ... more
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Virgin Orbit's next rocket ready for Cornwall
Mojave CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2022
Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB), a leading responsive launch provider, reports that its latest rocket has completed a full launch rehearsal and is now ready for flight. The window for the company's next ... more
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SpinLaunch completes Flight Test 10
Long Beach CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2022
SpinLaunch has announced the results of its tenth successful Flight Test of its Suborbital Accelerator from Spaceport America, New Mexico. The flight test, which occurred on September 27, 2022, demo ... more
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Firefly Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys customer payloads with its Alpha Rocket
Cedar Park TX (SPX) Oct 01, 2022
Firefly Aerospace, a new space leader in launch, spacecraft, and in-space services, announced that its Alpha FLTA002 mission successfully reached orbit and deployed customer payloads, lifting off on ... more
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Tiangong space station marks key step in assembly
Beijing (XNA) Oct 06, 2022
The Wentian lab module of China's Tiangong space station has been repositioned to dock with a radial port on the station's Tianhe core module on Friday afternoon, which marked a key step in Tiangong ... more
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SpaceX aborts launch of two communication satellites into orbit
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 7, 2021
The launch of two SpaceX communications satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday was aborted again and is now scheduled for Saturday. ... more
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AFRL Commander moderates Future Of Propulsion Panel At AFA Air, Space, Cyber Conference
National Harbor MD (SPX) Oct 06, 2022
Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle, Air Force Research Laboratory commander, moderated a future of propulsion panel comprised of Air Force experts Sept. 21, 2022, during the Air and Space Force Association's ... more
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China begins search for fourth astronaut generation
Beijing (XNA) Oct 05, 2022
China has recently started recruiting the country's fourth generation of astronauts, and the search has opened to people in Hong Kong and Macao for the first time, the China Manned Space Agency said ... more

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NASA eyes November for launch attempt of Moon rocket
Washington (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
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Elon Musk may help NASA extend life for Hubble
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. ... more
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Firefly launches Alpha Flight 002 "To The Black"
Vandenberg SFB CA (SPX) Oct 01, 2022
Team Vandenberg launched multiple satellites to low Earth orbit aboard Firefly's Alpha vehicle from Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex-2, Oct. 1, at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Col. Rober ... more
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Firefly Aerospace scrubs launch after rocket engine shuts down
Washington 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
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Satellite Vu signs SpaceX launch contract to deploy thermal monitoring capabilities
London, 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
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China launches multiple satellites in back to back launches
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 ... more
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In new setback, hurricane forces Moon rocket into storage
Washington (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
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SpaceX's Florida launch seen as far as New York, Massachusetts
Washington 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
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Vandenberg's final Delta 4 Heavy launched
Vandenberg 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 Flight
Promontory 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
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NASA's InSight waits out dust storm
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 10, 2022
NASA's InSight mission, which is expected to end in the near future, saw a recent drop in power generated by its solar panels as a continent-size dust storm swirls over Mars' southern hemisphere. First observed on Sept. 21, 2022, by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the storm is roughly 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) from InSight and initially had little impact on the lander. The m ... more
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CAPSTONE reports 'Initial Recovery Successful' for lunar orbiter
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 10, 2022
Over the past couple of weeks, the CAPSTONE mission team has been working to resolve an anomaly that occurred early last month and resulted in the spacecraft losing full 3-axis attitude control and entering into a spin stabilized state. Through extensive analysis and evaluation supported by a dedicated team of individuals on the mission team and key partners, the most likely cause of the anomaly ... more
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+ NASA to Practice Artemis Moonwalking, Roving Operations in Arizona Desert
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NASA's Juno gets highest-resolution close-up of Jupiter's moon Europa
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2022
Observations from the spacecraft's pass of the moon provided the first close-up in over two decades of this ocean world, resulting in remarkable imagery and unique science. The highest-resolution photo NASA's Juno mission has ever taken of a specific portion of Jupiter's moon Europa reveals a detailed view of a puzzling region of the moon's heavily fractured icy crust. The image cove ... more
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JPL developing more tools to help search for life in deep space
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 07, 2022
A team at the Lab has invented new technologies that could be used by future missions to analyze liquid samples from watery worlds and look for signs of alien life. Are we alone in the universe? An answer to that age-old question has seemed tantalizingly within reach since the discovery of ice-encrusted moons in our solar system with potentially habitable subsurface oceans. But looking for ... more
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+ The fountain of life: Water droplets hold the secret ingredient for building life
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+ Synthetic lava in the lab aids exoplanet exploration
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+ Big planets get a head start in pancake-thin nurseries
+ ExoClock counts down Ariel exoplanet targets
NASA's Crew-5 mission casts long exposure light beam
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Oct 10, 2022
In this 20-second exposure from Oct. 5, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission from our Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station (ISS). This is the fifth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the ISS as part of the agency's Commercial Crew ... more
+ Rocket Lab successfully launches 31st Electron rocket
+ Rocket Lab to launch environmental monitoring satellite for General Atomics
+ SpinLaunch completes Flight Test 10
+ First successful test of the Ariane 6 upper stage at DLR Lampoldshausen
+ Successful TEXUS 57 Launch - the weightless world above the Arctic Circle
+ Virgin Orbit's next rocket ready for Cornwall
+ SpaceX's Crew 5 mission blasts off to ISS with Russian cosmonaut onboard




Tiangong space station marks key step in assembly
Beijing (XNA) Oct 06, 2022
The Wentian lab module of China's Tiangong space station has been repositioned to dock with a radial port on the station's Tianhe core module on Friday afternoon, which marked a key step in Tiangong's in-orbit assembly, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The agency said in a news release that during the hour-long operation that finished at 12:44 pm, Wentian was moved from the axia ... more
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+ China launches multiple satellites in back to back launches
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SOAR Telescope catches Dimorphos's expanding comet-like tail after DART impact
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 05, 2022
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft intentionally crashed into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet in the double-asteroid system of Didymos, on Monday 26 September 2022. This was the first planetary defense test in which an impact of a spacecraft attempted to modify the orbit of an asteroid. Two days after DART's impact, astronomers Teddy Kareta (Lowell Observatory) and M ... more
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+ End-Cretaceous asteroid caused massive global tsunami, peaking at a mile high
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Lockheed Martin delivers its highest powered laser to date to US Department Of Defense
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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Lockheed Martin's next gen interceptor achieves communications testing milestone
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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Exploring Europa possible with silicon-germanium transistor technology
Atlanta GA (SPX) Oct 10, 2022
Europa is more than just one of Jupiter's many moons - it's also one of most promising places in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life. Under 10 kilometers of ice is a liquid water ocean that could sustain life. But with surface temperatures at -180 Celsius and with extreme levels of radiation, it's also one of the most inhospitable places in the solar system. Exploring Europa could ... more
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New system designs nanomaterials that conduct heat in specific ways
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 10, 2022
Computer chips are packed with billions of microscopic transistors that enable powerful computation, but also generate a great deal of heat. A buildup of heat can slow a computer processor and make it less efficient and reliable. Engineers employ heat sinks to keep chips cool, sometimes along with fans or liquid cooling systems; however, these methods often require a lot of energy to operate. ... more
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All expenses paid 'Zero Gravity' flight opportunity by Dr. Chrispy
Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 07, 2022
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Tiny particles that are interconnected despite sometimes being thousands of kilometres apart - Albert Einstein called this 'spooky action at a distance'. Something that would be inexplicable by the laws of classical physics is a fundamental part of quantum physics. Entanglement like this can occur between multiple quantum particles, meaning that certain properties of the particles are intimately ... more
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No Terminator: Musk teases 'useful' humanoid robot
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 1, 2022
Elon Musk on Friday showed off the latest version of a humanoid robot that the world's richest man said could one day eliminate poverty. An Optimus prototype wheeled on stage during an annual Tesla AI Day presentation was mounted to a small platform. The robot, which remains a work-in-progress, waved to the audience and raised its knees. "Our goal is to make a useful humanoid robot as qu ... more
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Team V-BAT offers a proven tactical UAS solution for RCN ISTAR
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