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April 07, 2023
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX prepares for rehearsal, test flight of Starship rocket



Washington (AFP) April 6, 2023
SpaceX plans to carry out a launch rehearsal next week of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, and its first test flight possibly the following week, the private space company said Thursday. SpaceX published photos of the massive Starship, which is designed to eventually send astronauts to the Moon and beyond, on its launchpad at the company's base in Texas. "Starship fully stacked at Starbase," SpaceX said in a tweet. "Team is working towards a launch rehearsal next week followed by S ... read more

SPACE TRAVEL
Axiom Space's upcoming ISS mission part of increasing commercialization of space
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 6, 2021
NASA and Axiom Space announced the first possible launch date of the commercial Ax-2 Mission to the International Space Station on Thursday. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Soyuz spacecraft that will bring ISS crew back to Earth moved to new port
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 6, 2021
The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft that will return three International Space Station crew members to Earth moved to a new docking port on the space station Thursday. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
A new measurement could change our understanding of the Universe
Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 06, 2023
The Universe is expanding - but how fast exactly? The answer appears to depend on whether you estimate the cosmic expansion rate - referred to as the Hubble's constant, or H0 - based on the echo of ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Makenzie Lystrup named first female director of Goddard Space Flight Center
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 6, 2023
Makenzie Lystrup has been named the first female director of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, NASA announced Thursday. ... more
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OUTER PLANETS
NASA's Webb Scores Another Ringed World with New Image of Uranus
Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 07, 2023
The planet Uranus is an oddball in our solar system, tilted on its side as it orbits the sun, causing extreme seasons. While the planet's atmosphere appeared nearly featureless when visited by the V ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
May 8 launch for private mission to ISS with Saudi astronauts
Washington (AFP) April 6, 2023
Two astronauts from Saudi Arabia, including the first Saudi woman, will blast off from Florida on May 8 on a private mission to the International Space Station (ISS), Axiom Space and NASA officials said Thursday. ... more
MARSDAILY
Scoping out the next sampling stop for Perseverance
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 06, 2023
After spending over 700 sols (Martian days) exploring the crater floor and delta front, Perseverance is making tracks up the front of the Jezero fan, climbing across stratigraphic layers, up and out ... more
MARSDAILY
New interactive mosaic uses NASA imagery to show Mars in vivid detail
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 06, 2023
Both scientists and the public can navigate a new global image of the Red Planet that was made at Caltech using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Cliffsides, impact craters, and du ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Hubble unexpectedly finds double quasar in distant universe
Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 06, 2023
The early universe was a rambunctious place where galaxies often bumped into each other and even merged together. Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other space and ground-based observatories, ... more
SPACEMART
Deloitte announces formal space practice for rapidly growing space industry
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 06, 2023
Deloitte, a multinational professional services network, has launched a new division, Deloitte Space, to help organizations achieve their space ambitions. With over 15 years of experience advising c ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Using the dark matter distribution to test our cosmological model
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 06, 2023
An international team of astrophysicists and cosmologists at various institutes including NAOJ and the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe have submitted a set of five pa ... more
TECH SPACE
D-Orbit signs contract with ESA for IRIDE Satellite Observation Program
Fino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Apr 06, 2023
Space logistics and orbital transportation company D-Orbit signed a 26-million euro contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for IRIDE, a space-based observation program initiated by the Italia ... more

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