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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 04, 2023 The team came into our first day of planning for 2023 to learn that all our holiday activities had executed as expected! As Curiosity ages, we are thankful that she continues to do amazing science on Mars, and the holiday plans were no exception. We finished up our investigations at the Marker band (for now anyway), analyzed bright material revealed in a scuff just below the Marker band and drove to the south to continue our climb of Mount Sharp. Our view this morning revealed dusty, in place bedr ... read more |
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SpaceX rocket carries 114 satellites in first launch of 2023Washington DC (UPI) Jan 03, 2023 SpaceX's first rocket launch of 2023 blasted off Tuesday morning, sending more than 100 satellites into space that will provide various services for agriculture, maritime monitoring and radio scruti ... more  
Spire Global launched 6 satellites on SpaceX Transporter-6 MissionVienna, VA (SPX) Jan 04, 2023 Spire Global has seen six of its satellites successfully launched on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station that blasted off Tuesday morning, sending more than 100 ... more  
Planet launches 36 SuperDoves on Transporter 6 missionSan Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 03, 2023 Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today successfully launched 36 SuperDove satellites, its Flock 4y, to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Th ... more 
NSLComm's BeetleSat LEO satellite launched on SpaceX Transporter 6 missionMiami FL (SPX) Jan 03, 2023 BeetleSat (the Company), formerly known as NSLComm, a fast-growing satellite technology start-up, today announced the successful launch of its second nanosatellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida, onbo ... more |
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NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative Deploys 150th from Space StationWashington DC (SPX) Jan 04, 2023 Astronauts aboard the International Space Station released four CubeSats into low-Earth orbit Dec. 29, marking the 150th deployment for NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative. The CubeSats, part of ... more  
Momentus launches Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle on Transporter-6 MissionSan Jose CA (SPX) Jan 03, 2023 Momentus has seen its second demonstration flight of the Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) launched into low-Earth orbit aboard the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission earlier today. Momentus establis ... more 
D-Orbit Launches two ION Satellite Carrier on its seventh orbital transportation missionFino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Jan 03, 2023 D-Orbit, the space logistics and orbital transportation company, launched Second Star to the Right, the seventh commercial mission of ION Satellite Carrier (ION), D-Orbit's proprietary orbital trans ... more  
China not in 'space race', industry insiders sayBeijing (XNA) Jan 04, 2023 All of China's activities in outer space are intended for the country's social, economic and technological development rather than for a "space race" with other nations, according to insiders in Chi ... more |
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China's space exploration spurred by helping humanityBeijing (XNA) Jan 04, 2023 All of China's activities in outer space are intended for the country's social, economic and technological development rather than for the "space race" with other nations, said insiders in China's s ... more 
Sidus Space awarded Bechtel Cable Assembly contract for Mobile Launcher 2Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 04, 2023 Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service company focused on mission critical hardware manufacturing combined with commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection t ... more  
PSI Io Input/Output observatory discovers large volcanic outburst on Jupiter's moon IoTucson AZ (SPX) Jan 04, 2023 A large volcanic outburst was discovered on Jupiter's moon Io by Jeff Morgenthaler of the Planetary Science Institute using PSI's Io Input/Output observatory (IoIO). PSI Senior Scientist Morge ... more  
Modified gravity, galactic rotation curves, modified inertia and dark matterSeoul, South Korea (SPX) Jan 01, 2023 One of the mysteries of the universe is that Einstein's general relativity, which is a relativistic theory of Newton's universal law of gravity, requires large amount of dark matter in individual ga ... more |
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Viasat awarded 5 year $325M IDIQ contract by US Special Operations CommandCarlsbad CA (SPX) Jan 01, 2023 Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has been awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract award worth up to $325 million over a five-year period to support the U.S. Special Operations ... more  
ispace executes second orbital control maneuverTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 03, 2023 ispace reports that its HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander has successfully carried out its second orbital control maneuver in accordance with its mission operations plan. The maneuver was carrie ... more 
Mix a space juice to celebrate ESA's Juice missionParis (ESA) Jan 03, 2023 ESA is kicking off the new year by inviting you to create a unique juice mocktail to represent the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - also known as Juice - launching in April. The winner of the most imagi ... more  
LHAASO's dark matter search places tighter constraints on dark matter's lifetimeDaocheng, China (SPX) Jan 03, 2023 Scientists from the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) have presented roughly 1.5 years of observational data, calculating new limits on the lifetime of heavy dark matter particles ... more 
South Korea's lunar orbiter sends photos of Earth, MoonSeoul (AFP) Jan 3, 2023 South Korea's first-ever lunar orbiter Danuri has sent black-and-white photos of the Moon's surface and Earth, the national space centre said Tuesday. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 22, 2022 
Russia is examining the flight worthiness of a Soyuz crew capsule docked with the ISS that sprang a leak last week, and might need to send up a rescue vessel for stranded crew, officials said Thursday.
The vehicle, known as MS-22, began spraying its coolant into space on December 14, with dramatic NASA TV images showing white particles resembling snowflakes streaming out of the rear.
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jan 01, 2023 
After its 1.4-million-mile mission beyond the Moon and back, the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission arrived back at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Dec. 30. The capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 11 and was transported by truck across the country from Naval Base San Diego in California to Kennedy's Multi Payload Processing Facility in Florida.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2022 
On the first sol of Christmas, Curiosity will bring to us; one APXS analysis, one ChemCam analysis and a multitude of Mastcam, MAHLI and RMI images! On the second sol of Christmas, Curiosity will bring to us; more ChemCam RMI images, more Mastcam images, more Navcam images and drive to a new, exciting location.
To allow for the MSL science team and engineers to take some time off over the ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 04, 2023 
All of China's activities in outer space are intended for the country's social, economic and technological development rather than for the "space race" with other nations, said insiders in China's space industry.
"We carry out spaceflights to develop high technology and improve economic growth and people's living standard. We don't take part in the space race with any other countries becau ... more |
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 Miami FL (SPX) Jan 03, 2023 
BeetleSat (the Company), formerly known as NSLComm, a fast-growing satellite technology start-up, today announced the successful launch of its second nanosatellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida, onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Now in Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) at 550Km altitude, the nanosatellite will provide BeetleSat's public sector customer with store and forward, very high throughput ... more |
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 San Jose CA (SPX) Jan 03, 2023 
Momentus has seen its second demonstration flight of the Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) launched into low-Earth orbit aboard the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission earlier today. Momentus established contact with its Vigoride vehicle on its first orbital pass and confirmed that both solar arrays are deployed, and the vehicle is generating power and charging its batteries.
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 28, 2022 
The mystery of whether microbial alien life might inhabit Enceladus, one of Saturn's 83 moons, could be solved by an orbiting space probe, according to a new study led by University of Arizona researchers. In a paper published in The Planetary Science Journal, the researchers map out how a hypothetical space mission could provide definite answers.
When Enceladus was initially surveyed in 1 ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 04, 2023 
A large volcanic outburst was discovered on Jupiter's moon Io by Jeff Morgenthaler of the Planetary Science Institute using PSI's Io Input/Output observatory (IoIO).
PSI Senior Scientist Morgenthaler has been using IoIO, located near Benson, Arizona to monitor volcanic activity on Io, since 2017. The observations show some sort of outburst nearly every year, but the largest yet was seen in ... more |
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 Phnom Penh (AFP) Jan 2, 2023 
Cambodian premier Hun Sen on Monday ordered the creation of conservation zones on the Mekong river to protect critically endangered dolphins, after three were killed by fishing nets and lines last month.
The Irrawaddy dolphins, known for their bulging foreheads and short beaks, once swam through much of the mighty Mekong but in recent decades have been limited to a 190-km (118-mile) stretch ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Dec 18, 2022 
Airbus has successfully achieved the System Critical Design Review (CDR) on the EGNOS V3 satellite-based augmentation system. The EGNOS V3 (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) is designed to add key security features for the most safety-critical applications such as aircraft navigation and landing, and will provide entirely new services for maritime and land users. EGNOS V3 is the ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) Jan 3, 2023 
South Korea's first-ever lunar orbiter Danuri has sent black-and-white photos of the Moon's surface and Earth, the national space centre said Tuesday.
Danuri - a portmanteau of the Korean words for "Moon" and "enjoy" - was launched on a SpaceX rocket from the United States in August 2022 and entered lunar orbit last month.
Its images - taken between December 24 and January 1 - show t ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2022 
A space telescope designed to search for the hardest-to-find asteroids and comets that stray into Earth's orbital neighborhood, NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor) recently passed a rigorous technical and programmatic review. Now the mission is transitioning into the final design-and-fabrication phase and establishing its technical, cost, and schedule baseline.
The mission sup ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 03, 2023 
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today successfully launched 36 SuperDove satellites, its Flock 4y, to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Planet team has established contact with all 36 SuperDoves and has kicked off their automated commissioning process. This marks the company's 32nd successful launch, totaling over 500 satellites lau ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 01, 2023 
Two CubeSats, or small satellites, are on a quest to provide insight on space weather disturbances and the subsequent impact on communication signals. The dynamic duo, the Plasma Enhancements in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere Satellite (petitSat) and Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT), arrived at the International Space Station on Nov. 27, 2022, as part of SpaceX's 26th com ... more |
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 Daocheng, China (SPX) Jan 03, 2023 
Scientists from the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) have presented roughly 1.5 years of observational data, calculating new limits on the lifetime of heavy dark matter particles that have masses between 10^5 and 10^9 giga-electron volts.
The study, entitled "Constraints on heavy decaying dark matter from 570 days of LHAASO observations," was recently published as a high ... more |
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 St Louis MO (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 
A team of scientists including physicist Johanna Nagy at Washington University in St. Louis successfully launched a balloon-borne experiment studying the early universe on Dec. 21. The instrument, called SPIDER, was carried aloft by a scientific balloon from its launch pad in Antarctica.
Nagy, an assistant professor of physics in Arts and Sciences, is one of a team of scientists who will u ... more |
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