Hera Systems and LeoStella team up to compete for military satellite orders
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Huginn begins
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Andreas Mogensen enters the Space Station Droplets unite!
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Dropcoal, short for Drop Coalescence, is a research project that studies how droplets form in space and on Earth. The results will grant insights into raindrop and cloud formation, fuel combustion and interactions between materials, all with broad implications for industry and academy. They also play a crucial role in administering medicine to astronauts during lengthy and far-reaching space missions.
Japan postpones 'Moon Sniper' liftoff for third time
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Japan's space agency on Monday postponed for the third time the launch of its "Moon Sniper" lunar mission due to poor weather.
The H2-A rocket due to blast off from the southern island of Tanegashima was also carrying a research satellite developed with NASA and the European Space Agency.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) gave no new date for the start of the mission, which comes after India successfully landed a probe on the Moon last week.
MHI Launch Services, the rocket co-developer, said on the social media platform X that the mission was called off "because it was confirmed that the upper wind does not satisfy the constraints at launch".
Last week India landed a craft near the Moon's south pole, a historic triumph for the world's most populous nation and its low-cost space program.
Previously, only the United States, Russia and China had managed to put a spacecraft on the lunar surface, and none on the south pole.
India's success came days after a Russian probe crashed in the same region, and four years after a previous Indian attempt failed at the last moment.
Huginn flies as Andreas arrives at the Space Station
Sunday, 27 August 2023 12:25
A multinational crew blasts off from Florida, heading for the International Space Station
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Four astronauts from four different countries and agencies soared into orbit early Friday morning from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft named Endurance atop a Falcon 9 rocket, kicking off a roughly 29-hour journey to the orbiting lab.
The four-person crew took off from the historic Launch Pad 39A (LC-39A) at KSC at 3:27 a.m. EDT (0727 UTC) Satu The fight over a 'dangerous' ideology shaping AI debate
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Silicon Valley's favourite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of human extinction.
But increasingly vocal critics are warning that the philosophy is dangerous, and the obsession with extinction distracts from real problems associated with AI like data theft and biased algorithms.
Author Emile Torres, a former longtermist tur India's Moon mission a model for aspiring space powers: PM Modi
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India's budget Moon landing is a model for other countries aspiring to develop their own space programmes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Saturday while praising the scientists behind the successful mission.
Chandrayaan-3 - "Mooncraft" in Sanskrit - touched down on the lunar surface on Wednesday, making India the first nation to land an unmanned craft near the largely unexplored lunar s Hera asteroid spacecraft assembled
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Hera is complete. ESA's asteroid mission for planetary defence was built and prepared in two halves, but now, through a painstaking operation, they have been mated together to make a single spacecraft, ready for full-scale testing of its readiness for space.
The mating took place at OHB Bremen in Germany, with Hera's Core Module raised more than 3 m above its Propulsion Module then gradual India and the global race to the Moon
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India made history as the first country to land near the south pole of the Moon with its Chandrayaan-3 lander on Aug. 23, 2023. This also makes it the first country to land on the Moon since China in 2020.
India is one of several countries - including the U.S. with its Artemis program - endeavoring to land on the Moon. The south pole of the Moon is of particular interest, as its surface, m NASA, Partners study ancient life in Australia to inform Mars search
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NASA is working with its international partners to study the ancient Earth as it relates to Mars.
In June 2023, NASA's Mars Exploration Program leaders joined their counterparts from the Australian Space Agency, ESA (European Space Agency), and the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) on a field expedition to visit some of the oldest convincing ev Mysterious Neptune dark spot detected from Earth for the first time
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Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune's atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. This is the first time a dark spot on the planet has ever been observed with a telescope on Earth. These occasional features in the blue background of Neptune's atmosphere are a mystery to astronomers, and the new results provide furt First geosynchronous orbit SAR satellite enters working orbit
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China's recently-launched L-SAR4 01 satellite, the world's first geosynchronous (high Earth orbit) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite stepping into the project implementation stage, has entered its working orbit with its SAR antenna successfully deployed, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
The L-SAR4 01 satellite, sent into space on Aug. 13, has entered its How being in space impairs astronauts' immune system
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A new study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has examined how T cells of the immune system are affected by weightlessness. The results, which are published in the journal Science Advances, could explain why astronauts' T cells become less active and less effective at fighting infection.
The next steps in the exploration of space are human missions to the moon and to Ma