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Apollo 14 remembered as 'back to space' mission that expanded lunar science
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Family members of the Apollo 14 crew that landed on the moon in 1971 marked the 50th anniversary of the historic expedition Saturday at Kennedy Space Center.
The three astronauts from Apollo 14 - Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell - have died, but their families and several other Apollo-era figures recalled the trip as a triumphant return to the moon after the Apollo 13 acc Watch live: Signature of the Financial Framework Partnership Agreement
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Watch live: Signature of the Financial Framework Partnership Agreement
Follow the online event marking the FFPA signature between ESA and the EU. Starts at 09:30 CEST.
New sea-level monitoring satellite goes live
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Following liftoff last November and more than six months spent carefully calibrating the most advanced mission dedicated to measuring sea-level rise, Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is now operational – meaning that its data are available to climate researchers, ocean-weather forecasts and other data users.
Stark reality of Californian drought from space
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Stark reality of Californian drought from space Take part in ESA’s Space App Camp
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ESA is inviting up to 25 committed mobile app developers and specialists in artificial and machine learning related to observing Earth from space to join this year’s Space App Camp, which will be a virtual event over eight weeks, from 20 July to 20 September.
Take 2: Spacewalking astronauts install new solar panel
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Spacewalking astronauts equipped the International Space Station with the first in a series of powerful new solar panels Sunday, overcoming suit problems and other obstacles with muscle and persistence.
It took two spacewalks for French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough to install and unfurl the panel to its full 63 feet (19 meters) in length.
The solar wing unrolled like a red carpet once the final set of bolts was released, relying solely on pent-up energy. The slow but steady extension took 10 minutes, with station cameras providing live TV views.
"It is beautiful," Pesquet called out.
"Well done, both of you," Mission Control replied once the operation was complete.
Orbital Sidekick announces upcoming launch of its most powerful satellite: Aurora
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Orbital Sidekick (OSK) announced the upcoming launch of its newest and most powerful hyperspectral imaging satellite: "Aurora." Aurora leverages OSK's previous experience collecting and analyzing hyperspectral data to provide action-oriented insights on the world around us, with a core focus on sustainability.
The Aurora satellite will serve OSK's customers in the energy, mining, and defen Lockheed Martin-Built Next Generation GPS III Satellite Propels Itself to Orbit
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The fifth Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite designed and built by Lockheed Martin is now headed to its orbit 12,550 miles above earth. This marks another step in supporting the U.S. Space Force's GPS satellite constellation modernization efforts.
Launched earlier this week, GPS III Space Vehicle 05 (GPS III SV05) is the latest next-generation GPS III satellite, a warfightin Novel chirped pulses defy 'conventional wisdom'
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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was shared by researchers who pioneered a technique to create ultrashort, yet extremely high-energy laser pulses at the University of Rochester.
Now researchers at the University's Institute of Optics have produced those same high-powered pulses - known as chirped pulses - in a way that works even with relatively low-quality, inexpensive equipment. The new w NASA reports trouble with Hubble Space Telescope
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The Hubble Space Telescope, which has been peering into the universe for more than 30 years, has been down for the past few days, NASA said Friday.
The problem is a payload computer that stopped working last Sunday, the US space agency said.
It insisted the telescope itself and scientific instruments that accompany it are "in good health."
"The payload computer's purpose is to control and coordinate the science instruments and monitor them for health and safety purposes," NASA said.