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  Washington (AFP) April 4, 2023 Virgin Orbit, the satellite launch company founded by Richard Branson, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will sell the business, the firm said in a statement Tuesday. The California-based company said last week it was laying off 85 percent of its employees - around 675 people - to reduce expenses due to its inability to secure sufficient funding. Virgin Orbit suffered a major setback earlier this year when an attempt to launch the first rocket into space from British soil ended in failur ... read more |
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Japan postpones H2A rocket launch after H3 failureTokyo, Japan (XBA) Apr 04, 2023 Japan will postpone an H2A rocket launch originally scheduled for May until August or later, the nation's space agency said on Friday. The decision was made as the rocket shares components in ... more  
Do Earth-like exoplanets have magnetic fieldsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 04, 2023 Earth's magnetic field does more than keep everyone's compass needles pointed in the same direction. It also helps preserve Earth's sliver of life-sustaining atmosphere by deflecting high energy par ... more 
ISRO conducts the Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing MissionChitradurga. India (SPX) Apr 04, 2023 ISRO successfully conducted the Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX). The test was conducted at the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga, Karnataka in the early hours o ... more  
NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch to become first woman to orbit the moonWashington DC (UPI) Apr 3, 2023 NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch - a flight engineer on the International Space Station and record-holder for the longest single spaceflight by a female - will become the first woman to orbit the moon next year when the space agency launches its Artemis II mission. ... more |
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First woman, Black astronaut, Canadian to make 2024 flight around MoonHouston (AFP) April 3, 2023 NASA unveiled the crew on Monday for its first human mission to the Moon in more than 50 years - including the first woman and Black man to participate in a lunar flight. ... more 
NASA's first flight with crew critical to long-term return to the moonWashington DC (SPX) Apr 04, 2023 Astronauts on their first flight aboard NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft will venture around the Moon. Their mission will be to confirm all of the spacecraft's systems op ... more 
Privately built, liquid-fuel rocket first in world to reach orbit in debut flightBeijing (XNA) Apr 04, 2023 The TL 2, a carrier rocket developed by Space Pioneer, reached orbit on Sunday afternoon, becoming the first privately built, liquid-fuel rocket in China to reach orbit. The rocket blasted off ... more  
Ready for Software Upgrade Sols 3786-3788Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 04, 2023 An issue at a Deep Space Network station prevented the Sol 3785 plan from being sent to Mars, so none of those planned activities occurred. But the rover is in a good location and orientation for th ... more |
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Gaia discovers a new family of black holesParis (ESA) Apr 02, 2023 ESA's Gaia mission has helped discover a new kind of black hole. The new family already has two members, and both are closer to Earth than any other black hole that we know of. A team of astro ... more  
Scientists observe flattest explosion ever seen in spaceSheffield UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2023 An explosion the size of our solar system has baffled scientists, as part of its shape - similar to that of an extremely flat disc - challenges everything we know about explosions in space. Th ... more 
AI algorithm unblurs the cosmosEvanston IL (SPX) Mar 31, 2023 The cosmos would look a lot better if Earth's atmosphere wasn't photo bombing it all the time. Even images obtained by the world's best ground-based telescopes are blurry due to the atmosphere's shi ... more  
Kenya to launch first operational satellite next weekNairobi (AFP) April 3, 2023 Kenya will launch its first operational satellite next week in a landmark achievement for the country's space programme, the government said on Monday. ... more |
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