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Beautiful Weekend Views - Sols 3493-3495 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 07, 2022 We're heading into a packed weekend, after a successful drive putting us in a great location with some really beautiful views. Everywhere you look in the Navcam mosaic (above) there's something interesting to see! We're up close to a nifty layered outcrop, which is getting lots of imaging including ChemCam LIBS on targets 'Rukumata' and 'Guarico,' a ChemCam mosaic on 'Kamakusa,' MAHLI dogs-eye imaging of 'Tabaco' and the DRT location 'Issano,' which will also have APXS on it. Mastcam will al ... read more |
Shenzhou XIV astronauts transporting supplies into space station Beijing (XNA) Jun 07, 2022 Crew members of the Shenzhou XIV spaceflight have begun to transport living and mission supplies to the Tiangong space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The agency said in a ... more Washington DC (UPI) Jun 07, 2022 NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket reached the launching pad at Kenndy Space Center in Florida Monday morning after its slow-rolling 4.2-mile hike. The tr ... more Lancaster UK (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 Scientists have created the first "time-crystal" two-body system in an experiment that seems to bend the laws of physics. It comes after the same team recently witnessed the first interaction ... more Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 06, 2022 Engineers successfully fired a 2-foot-diameter, subscale solid rocket booster June 1, 2022, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The test, conducted in Marshall's Eas ... more |
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Aegis Aerospace and Intuitive Machines team up for lunar science services Houston TX (SPX) Jun 06, 2022 Officials of space and defense technology company Aegis Aerospace Inc. and pioneering space company Intuitive Machines yesterday formally announced they have entered into the first Texas-based busin ... more Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jun 06, 2022 Six microsatellites developed by Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) were successfully launched by the SpaceX Transporter-5 rideshare mission on May 25. The three GHGSat greenhouse gas monitoring and thre ... more Washington DC (UPI) Jun 05, 2022 China on Sunday successfully launched a manned mission to its Tiangong Space Station. The three-person crew launched on the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft from the Jiquan Satellite Launch Center in th ... more Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jun 07, 2022 An international research team including the University of Gottingen has investigated the chances of survival of kombucha cultures under Mars-like conditions. Kombucha is known as a drink, sometimes ... more |
The Modes of Webb's NIRISS Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 06, 2022 The Webb team continues to commission the 17 science instrument modes. This week we asked Nathalie Ouellette of the Universite de Montreal to give more detail about the modes of the Near-Infrared Im ... more Jiuquan (XNA) Jun 06, 2022 The upcoming Shenzhou-14 crewed space mission will complete the construction of the Tiangong space station, with a basic three-module structure consisting of the core module Tianhe and the lab modul ... more Perth, Australia (SPX) Jun 06, 2022 Recently, 47 new 'marsquakes' (that is, quakes on Mars) have been detected by Professor Hrvoje Tkalcic from the Australian National University and Professor Weijia Sun from the Chinese Academy of Sc ... more Beijing (AFP) June 5, 2022 Three Chinese astronauts arrived at the country's space station on Sunday, the Chinese space agency for human flights said, the latest stride in Beijing's aim to become a major space power. ... more |
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China sends three astronauts to complete space station Beijing (AFP) June 5, 2022 China on Sunday launched a rocket carrying three astronauts on a mission to complete construction on its new space station, the latest milestone in Beijing's drive to become a major space power. ... more Washington (AFP) June 4, 2022 Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin flew six tourists into space for a 10-minute ride Saturday, successfully carrying out its fifth crewed mission. ... more Washington (AFP) June 2, 2022 The famous snow-capped peaks of the Alps are fading fast and being replaced by vegetation cover - a process called "greening" that is expected to accelerate climate change, a study said Thursday. ... more Brooke Hess for GSFC News Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 Venus Oxygen Fugacity (VfOx) is a small, button-sized sensor aboard NASA's DAVINCI mission to Venus' atmosphere that will be designed, fabricated, tested, operated, ... more Miami, FL (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar sp ... more |
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NASA Moon Mission Set to Break Record in Navigation Signal Test Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 As the Artemis missions journey to the Moon and NASA plans for the long voyage to Mars, new navigation capabilities will be key to science, discovery, and human exploration. Through NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, will deliver an experimental payload to the Moon's Mare Crisium basin. NASA's Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) payloa ... more |
Subscale booster motor for future Artemis missions fires up at Marshall Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 06, 2022 Engineers successfully fired a 2-foot-diameter, subscale solid rocket booster June 1, 2022, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The test, conducted in Marshall's East Test Area, produced 92,000 pounds of thrust and was done as part of the booster obsolescence and life extension (BOLE) program, providing an upgraded booster design for the evolved configuration of ... more |
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Perseverance Has a Pet Rock! Mamoa HI (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 How do you choose a rock on Mars? Sometimes you don't- it chooses you. For the past 4 months, Perseverance has had an unexpected traveling companion. Back on sol 341- that's over 100 sols ago, in early February- a rock found its way into the rover's front left wheel, and since hitching a ride, it's been transported more than 5.3 miles (8.5 km). This rock isn't doing any damage to the wheel, but ... more |
Three Chinese astronauts arrive at space station Beijing (AFP) June 5, 2022 Three Chinese astronauts arrived at the country's space station on Sunday, the Chinese space agency for human flights said, the latest stride in Beijing's aim to become a major space power. The trio blasted off in a Long March-2F rocket at 0244 GMT from the Jiuquan launch centre in northwestern China's Gobi desert, reported state broadcaster CCTV. The team is tasked with "completing in-o ... more |
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China launches nine Geely-01 satellites Xichang (XNA) Jun 03, 2022 China on Thursday launched a Long March-2C carrier rocket to place a group of nine commercial satellites in space. The Geely-01 constellation consisting of nine satellites were lifted at 12:00 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province and entered the preset orbit. Owned by GeeSpace, a subsidiary of Geely Technology Group, the s ... more |
SCOUT and LEOcloud collaborate on next gen space domain awareness services Alexandria VA (SPX) Jun 07, 2022 SCOUT Inc., a company developing next-generation space safety of flight and autonomous proximity operations services, and LEOcloud Inc., a company offering a scalable space-based, multi-cloud Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS) announced they have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to work jointly to enhance space operations safety. The collaboration is focused on integrating SCOUT's Space Do ... more |
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Geology from 50 light-years away Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 07, 2022 With its mirror segments beautifully aligned and its scientific instruments undergoing calibration, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is just weeks away from full operation. Soon after the first observations are revealed this summer, Webb's in-depth science will begin. Among the investigations planned for the first year are studies of two hot exoplanets cla ... more |
Gemini North Telescope Helps Explain Why Uranus and Neptune Are Different Colors Washington DC (SPX) Jun 01, 2022 Astronomers may now understand why the similar planets Uranus and Neptune are different colors. Using observations from the Gemini North telescope, the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, and the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have developed a single atmospheric model that matches observations of both planets. The model reveals that excess haze on Uranus builds up in the planet's stagnant, sl ... more |
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China's FM pens agreements in East Timor on final Pacific stop Dili, East Timor (AFP) June 3, 2022 China's foreign minister signed a series of agreements in East Timor on his final stop of a 10-day diplomatic blitz of the South Pacific on Friday, boosting ties between Beijing and Southeast Asia's youngest country. Wang Yi met with East Timor's top diplomat Adaljiza Magno in the capital Dili for a signing ceremony where they penned agreements on agriculture, media partnerships and economic ... more |
Astrocast acquires Hiber, accelerates OEM strategy. Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) May 31, 2022 Astrocast, a leading global nanosatellite IoT network operator, has announced the signature of an agreement to acquire Hiber, a Netherlands-based, IoT-as-a-Service provider. Under the agreement, Astrocast agreed to acquire all of Hiber's shares in exchange for the issuance of new Astrocast shares, representing 16.5% of Astrocast's share capital, calculated prior to its previously announced publi ... more |
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NASA selects new instruments for priority Artemis science on Moon Washington DC (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 Adding to the growing list of commercial deliveries slated to explore more of the Moon than ever before under Artemis, NASA has selected two new science instrument suites, including one that will study the mysterious Gruithuisen Domes for the first time. These payload suites mark the second selection through the agency's Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRIS ... more |
Planetary Defense exercise uses Apophis as Hazardous Asteroid Stand-In Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 01, 2022 Watching the skies for large asteroids that could pose a hazard to the Earth is a global endeavor. So, to test their operational readiness, the international planetary defense community will sometimes use a real asteroid's close approach as a mock encounter with a "new" potentially hazardous asteroid. The lessons learned could limit, or even prevent, global devastation should the scenario play o ... more |
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The consequences of climate change in the Alps are visible from space Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 Global warming has a particularly pronounced impact on the Alpine region. Like the Arctic, this European mountain range is becoming greener. Writing in the journal Science, researchers from the University of Lausanne and the University of Basel have now used satellite data to show that vegetation above the tree line has increased in nearly 80% of the Alps. Snow cover is also decreasing, albeit s ... more |
The Sun is spinning round again Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 01, 2022 All was amiss with the Sun! In the early 2000s, a new set of data brought down the chemical abundances at the surface of the Sun, contradicting the values predicted by the standard models used by astrophysicists. Often challenged, these new abundances made it through several new analyses. As they seemed to prove correct, it was thus up to the solar models to adapt, especially since they serve as ... more |
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UCI-led astronomy team finds evidence of galactic metal shrouded in dust Irvine CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2022 A thorough understanding of galaxy evolution depends in part on an accurate measurement of the abundance of metals in the intergalactic medium - the space between stars - but dust can impede observations in optical wavelengths. An international team of astronomers at the University of California, Irvine, Oxford University in England, and other institutions uncovered evidence of heavier elements ... more |
Researchers create simulations studying the lifecycle of ancestor galaxy cities Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 07, 2022 For the first time, researchers have created simulations that directly recreate the full life cycle of some of the largest collections of galaxies observed in the distant universe 11 billion years ago, reports a new study in Nature Astronomy. Cosmological simulations are crucial to studying how the universe became the shape it is today, but many do not typically match what astronomers obse ... more |
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