Rocket to lift space station core moves to launch tower
Friday, 23 April 2021 11:09
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The Long March 5B carrier rocket which will launch the core capsule of China's space station was moved on Friday morning to the launch tower at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in the southernmost island province of Hainan, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
The agency said in a brief statement that the rocket with the core capsule inside will begin pre-launch examinations. Astronaut Kate Rubins: Fresh food in space is rare, desired
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Astronaut Kate Rubins, who returned from a mission almost a week ago, has urged more research into growing produce while in orbit.
"We don't get a lot of fresh food in space and so, you know, it's pretty funny to get very excited about a spinach salad, but I think that's the best thing in the world," Rubins said during a phone press conference with reporters Wednesday from Johnson Space DLR develops an unmanned stratospheric aircraft
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Earth observation and global communications - these two terms immediately bring satellites to mind. Constructing these satellites and placing them in orbit is costly and, at the end of their missions, their remains are sometimes left behind to become space debris. Aircraft or helicopters, however, are also not ideal for these tasks.
Their deployment is limited by factors of time and locat Radar satellites can better protect against bushfires and floods
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New research led by Curtin University has revealed how radar satellites can improve the ability to detect, monitor, prepare for and withstand natural disasters in Australia including bushfires, floods and earthquakes.
The research used Synthetic Aperture Radar data obtained by the European Space Agency Sentinel-1 satellite, amongst others, to evaluate Australia-specific case studies. SpaceX in orbit on route to ISS
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SpaceX launched its third crew to the International Space Station an hour before sunrise Friday, recycling a rocket and spacecraft for the first time. The Crew-2 mission, the first involving a European, blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:49 am Eastern Time (0949 GMT). "Endeavour launches once again - four astronauts from three countries on Crew-2, now making their way to the one and only International Space Station Mars 2020 used key systems at AFRL for pre flight testing
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On February 18, 2021, NASA's rover Perseverance touched down on the surface of Mars to begin searching for evidence of past life. The success of this touchdown would not have been possible without the work of a team of researchers who operate unique erosion testing equipment in a windowless bunker at Wright-Patterson's Air Force Research Lab. And this is not the only Dayton connection to this pa Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life beneath its surface, study finds
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As NASA's Perseverance rover begins its search for ancient life on the surface of Mars, a new study suggests that the Martian subsurface might be a good place to look for possible present-day life on the Red Planet.
The study, published in the journal Astrobiology, looked at the chemical composition of Martian meteorites - rocks blasted off of the surface of Mars that eventually landed on Scientists propose new formation mechanism for solar coronal rain
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Rain is a common phenomenon on Earth. There is a similar phenomenon on the Sun, called coronal rain. It is related to the coronal heating and magnetic field, and plays a fundamental role in the mass cycle between the hot, tenuous corona and the cool, dense chromosphere.
Coronal rain usually takes place in post-flare loops and the non-flaring active region coronal loops. It is generally cla Using exoplanets as dark matter detectors
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In the continuing search for dark matter in our universe, scientists believe they have found a unique and powerful detector: exoplanets.
In a new paper, two astrophysicists suggest dark matter could be detected by measuring the effect it has on the temperature of exoplanets, which are planets outside our solar system.
This could provide new insights into dark matter, the mysterious s The science of spin as asteroseismologists confirm older stars rotate faster than expected
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Stars spin faster than expected as they age according to a new study led by scientists at the University of Birmingham which uses asteroseismology to shed new light on this emerging theory.
All stars, like the Sun, are born spinning. As they grow older, their spin slows down due to magnetic winds in a process called 'magnetic braking'. Research published in 2016 by scientists at Carnegie O Mars-directed coronal mass ejection erupts from the sun
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NASA's STEREO-A and ESA/NASA's SOHO spacecraft detected a coronal mass ejection, or CME, leaving the sun on April 17 at 12:36 p.m. EDT. This CME did not impact Earth but did move toward Mars, passing the planet in the late evening and early morning hours of April 21 and 22.
The CME reached Mars two days after NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. NASA tracks such solar eruptions because solar eruptions can trigger particle and radiation events that pose a risk to astronauts and sensitive spacecraft electronics.
Asteroid that hit Botswana in 2018 likely came from Vesta
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An international team of researchers searched for pieces of a small asteroid tracked in space and then observed to impact Botswana on June 2, 2018. Guided by SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens, they found 23 meteorites deep inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and now have published their findings online in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
"Combining the observations of the small asteroid in space with information gleaned from the meteorites shows it likely came from Vesta, second largest asteroid in our solar system and target of NASA's DAWN mission," said Jenniskens.
Mission Alpha in images
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Mission Alpha in images
Image gallery of the Mission Alpha
Mission Alpha launch in images
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Mission Alpha launch in images
Image gallery of the Mission Alpha
SpaceX launches NASA Crew-2 mission
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — SpaceX launched a Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts from three nations April 23 as the commercial crew program moves firmly into operations.
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A here at 5:49 a.m.