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November 12, 2022
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US military space drone returns to Earth after 908 days in orbit



Washington (AFP) Nov 12, 2022
A US military space drone landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday after nearly two and a half years in orbit, Boeing said. The unmanned X-37B shuttle, whose first flight took place in 2010, has now spent a total of more than 10 years in space and flown more than 1.3 billion miles during six missions, Boeing said in a statement. "This mission highlights the Space Force's focus on collaboration in space exploration and expanding low-cost access to space for our partners, within ... read more

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NASA sticks to plan to launch Moon rocket Wednesday
Washington (AFP) Nov 11, 2022
NASA said Friday it plans to attempt its long-delayed uncrewed mission to the Moon as scheduled next Wednesday, after inspections revealed only minor damage from Hurricane Nicole's passage through Florida. ... more
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ULA launches weather satellite for NOAA and Re-entry test for NASA
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 11, 2022
United Launch Alliance has successfully launched the third in a series of polar-orbiting weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at 1:49 a.m. PST Thursday, ... more
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Television crew finds remnants of Challenger in Atlantic Ocean
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 11, 2021
Divers off the east coast of Florida have discovered remnants from the Space Shuttle Challenger which exploded after liftoff from Cape Canaveral more than 36 years ago. ... more
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Artemis I rocket received only minimal damage from Hurricane Nicole, NASA says
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 11, 2021
NASA said Friday it would proceed with the Artemis I launch after inspections showed minimal damage to the rocket from Hurricane Nicole. ... more
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Hurricane causes only minor damage to Artemis rocket
Washington (AFP) Nov 11, 2022
After initial visual inspections, NASA said on Thursday that its new mega moon rocket apparently suffered no major damage after Hurricane Nicole hit Florida. ... more
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NOAA satellite, NASA LOFTID heat shield experiment launched into orbit
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 10, 2021
The third of five advanced NOAA satellites launched into orbit early Thursday from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base. The Joint Polar Satellite System-2 will provide a continuous stream of vital weather data. ... more
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Piece of Challenger space shuttle found off Florida coast
Washington (AFP) Nov 11, 2022
Divers searching for a World War II-era aircraft near the Bermuda Triangle have found a piece of an entirely different sort of vessel: part of the US Challenger space shuttle that exploded soon after takeoff in 1986. ... more
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Nicole postpones NASA Artemis I mission until Nov. 16
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 9, 2021
NASA has decided to re-schedule its Artemis 1 mission launch to Nov. 16, "pending safe conditions for employees to return to work." ... more
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Splashdown is Just the Start for NASA Heat Shield Recovery Team
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 10, 2022
After NASA's inflatable heat shield splashes down 500 miles off the coast of Hawaii, the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, or LOFTID, technology demonstration will be complet ... more
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Nicole weakens to Tropical Storm, threatens NASA launch
Washington (AFP) Nov 10, 2022
Tropical Storm Nicole slowed after making landfall in the US state of Florida, meteorologists said Thursday, with high winds raising concerns that a long-delayed NASA rocket launch could be disrupted. ... more
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Next-generation rocket for astronauts expected in 2027
Beijing (XNA) Nov 09, 2022
China's next-generation rocket to carry humans is expected to make its maiden flight around 2027, said a project manager. Zhao Xinguo, a senior rocket designer and head of the China Academy of ... more
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Subtropical Storm Nicole delays SpaceX launch
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 8, 2021
SpaceX's next launch has been pushed back at least four days due to concerns about the recently formed Subtropical Storm Nicole. ... more

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Gilmour Space completes final qualification test of Sirius rocket engine
Gold Coast, Australia (SPX) Nov 08, 2022
Australian rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies have successfully completed the final qualification test of its main Sirius hybrid rocket engine, paving the way for the country's first orb ... more
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China's mightiest liquid-propellant rocket engine passes key test
Beijing (XNA) Nov 07, 2022
Engineers in China's space industry conducted a key test of the country's most powerful liquid-propellant rocket engine on Saturday, marking a large stride in the development of a super-heavy carrie ... more
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Twitter chaos deepens as key executives quit
San Francisco (AFP) Nov 11, 2022
Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter descended ever deeper into chaos on Thursday as key security executives resigned from the platform, drawing a sharp warning from US regulators. ... more
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NASA views images, confirms discovery of Shuttle Challenger artifact
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 11, 2022
NASA leaders recently viewed footage of an underwater dive off the East coast of Florida, and they confirm it depicts an artifact from the space shuttle Challenger. The artifact was discovered ... more
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Rocket Lab announces launch window for inaugural Electron launch from Wallops Island
Wallops Island VA (SPX) Nov 10, 2022
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced it plans to launch its first Electron mission from Virginia during a launch window opening December 7 EST. The mission, named "Virginia is for Launc ... more
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Rocket Lab deploys 152nd satellite
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 07, 2022
Rocket Lab USA Inc, (Nasdaq: RKLB) has successfully launched its 32nd Electron mission to deploy its 152nd satellite to orbit, a science payload for the Swedish National Space Agency. The MATS satel ... more
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Rocket Lab opens Archimedes Engine Test Stand at Stennis Space Center
Stennis Space Center MS (SPX) Nov 07, 2022
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has kicked off operations for testing the Archimedes engine with a ribbon cutting ceremony at NASA's historic Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The Archimedes ... more
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Iran says it successfully tested satellite launcher
Tehran (AFP) Nov 5, 2022
Iran announced Saturday the successful test flight of a rocket capable of propelling satellites into space, three months after launching a satellite with the help of Russia. ... more
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Anatomy of the week the Musk tornado hit Twitter
San Francisco (AFP) Nov 6, 2022
The whirlwind week that Elon Musk took over Twitter began with sleepless nights for company engineers - and ended with half the staff getting the axe. ... more
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Astronauts enter China's Mengtian lab module for first time
Beijing (XNA) Nov 04, 2022
Chinese astronauts onboard the nation's Tiangong space station entered the Mengtian lab module on Thursday afternoon, several hours after the completion of the station's in-orbit assembly. Cre ... more
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Losing the Rhythm - Sols 3648-3649
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 10, 2022
Curiosity was parked amongst beautiful, rhythmically layered bedrock in our previous workspace. The term rhythmic is used to describe fine scale, repeating layers that exhibit a uniform spacing and thickness. This bedrock was exposed just above the marker band that we had been investigating for several sols prior. The marker band has been mapped from orbit and appears to be a relatively co ... more
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iSpace receives license to conduct business activity on the Moon from Japanese Government
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 09, 2022
CAPTOPM First License Granted Under Japan's Space Resources Act ispace, inc. (ispace), a global lunar exploration company with its headquarters in Japan and regional offices in the United States and Europe, announced that it has received a license from the Japanese government to conduct business activity on the moon as part of its first lunar mission. The approval, the first granted under ... more
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Mars and Jupiter moons meet
Paris (ESA) Oct 17, 2022
ESA's Mars Express has captured the rare moment of Mars' small moon Deimos passing in front of Jupiter and its four largest moons - the focus of ESA's upcoming Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer launching next year. Celestial alignments like these enable a more precise determination of the martian moons' orbits. Since arriving in orbit at the Red Planet in 2003, Mars Express routinely observes the ... more
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Oldest planetary debris in our galaxy found from new study
Warwick UK (SPX) Nov 07, 2022
Astronomers led by the University of Warwick have identified the oldest star in our galaxy that is accreting debris from orbiting planetesimals, making it one of the oldest rocky and icy planetary systems discovered in the Milky Way. Their findings are published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, which conclude that a faint white dwarf located 90 light years from Earth, as ... more
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Artemis I rocket received only minimal damage from Hurricane Nicole, NASA says
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 11, 2021
NASA said Friday it would proceed with the Artemis I launch after inspections showed minimal damage to the rocket from Hurricane Nicole. The Artemis I mission launch is still scheduled for Nov. 16, after it was delayed due to the Hurricane. "There's nothing preventing us from getting to the 16th," Jim Free, an associate administrator, told reporters during a Friday news conferenc ... more
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+ US military space drone returns to Earth after 908 days in orbit
+ ULA launches weather satellite for NOAA and Re-entry test for NASA




Next-generation rocket for astronauts expected in 2027
Beijing (XNA) Nov 09, 2022
China's next-generation rocket to carry humans is expected to make its maiden flight around 2027, said a project manager. Zhao Xinguo, a senior rocket designer and head of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology's rocket development department, said the new rocket, which has yet to be named, is an important backbone in China's ambitious plan to place its astronauts on the moon. ... more
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Twin tail revealed in new Hubble image of Didymos-Dimorphos system following DART impact
Paris (ESA) Oct 21, 2022
Two tails of dust ejected from the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system are seen in new images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, documenting the lingering aftermath of the NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impact on 27 September 2022 at 01:14 CEST. Current data show that DART shortened Dimorphos' original 11 hour and 55 minute orbit around Didymos by about 32 minutes. Rep ... more
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Bothell WA (SPX) Sep 16, 2022
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Ukraine hails arrival of Western air defence systems
Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Nov 7, 2022
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SwRI scientists compile Cassini's unique observations of Saturn's rings
San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 19, 2022
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