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Ecuador becomes 26th nation to sign space-exploration Artemis Accords
Ecuador became the 26th nation to join the Artemis Accords Wednesday.
The accords "establish a practical set of principles to guide space exploration cooperation among nations, including those participating in NASA's Artemis program," according to NASA.
NASA says the Artemis Accords reinforce prior agreements regarding space exploration.
"The Artemis Accords reinforce and Persevering across the upper fan in search of record-keeping rocks
Sampling Martian rocks requires persistence! Right now, Perseverance is on the hunt for a conglomerate rock to sample for return to Earth - a task that is proving to be challenging. Two attempts were made to core at the Onahu outcrop, but the soft rock crumbled during each attempt.
The team set sights on a neighboring outcrop called Stone Man Pass, about 40 meters away, to search for a les Touch and Go: Sol 3865
Earth planning date: Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Curiosity is currently trekking east along a small detour due to recent challenges on steep, rocky, sandy terrain. Today we planned 1 sol known as a 'Touch and Go': Curiosity spends a short time collecting science data including contact science activities, and then drives away on the same sol. These are useful plans when you have places to be, but don Introducing Commercial Crew-7
The final two crewmembers of Crew-7, for which ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen is the pilot, have been announced. They will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) later this summer.
In addition to Andreas and NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli who were already announced as Crew-7 pilots, Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos astronaut Konstantin Borisov will take two seats in Upgrades to KSC ground systems near completion for Artemis II
As teams with NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Program at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida prepare for the first major set of integrated ground system tests for Artemis II, the first crewed mission under Artemis, engineers have nearly completed upgrades to mobile launcher 1 and launch pad 39B.
Technicians repaired the elevators on the mobile launcher, which sustained damage du SETS' SPS-25 Propulsion System proves successful in space testing
Space Electric Thruster Systems (SETS), a leading player in the field of electric propulsion systems utilizing Hall thrusters, has achieved a notable victory with the successful testing of its SPS-25 space propulsion system. The propulsion system was put through its paces on the EOS SAT-1 satellite, a piece of high-tech machinery developed by Dragonfly Aerospace specifically for the EOS Data Ana Technical fault forces U.S. spy satellite launch to be postponed to Thursday
The launch of United Launch Alliance's heavy space launch vehicle with a spy satellite aboard for the U.S. Defense Department's NROL-68 space reconnaissance program was aborted early Wednesday due to a technical glitch.
The launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida was called off due to "an issue with a ground systems pneumatic valve," and liftoff had been pushed back to Space telescope tracing dark energy to be launched July 1
The Euclid space telescope has a target launch date of July 1, 2023 (18:11 Finnish time at the earliest) with a backup launch date of July 2, 2023.
In six years, Euclid will complete a task that would take older telescopes like Hubble or Webb over a century. The main objective is to solve the problem of dark energy, i.e., why has the expansion of the universe started to accelerate?
A map to reveal the secrets of dark matter and dark energy
Europe's Euclid space telescope to launch on July 1
The European Space Agency said on Wednesday its space telescope Euclid is scheduled to launch on July 1, blasting off on a mission to shed light on the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.
The mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, with the broadcast beginning at 1430 GMT, the ESA said in a tweet.
Euclid was originally planned to ride into space on a Russian Soyuz rocket, but last year Moscow withdrew its launchers in response to sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine.
The ESA was forced to turn to its rival SpaceX, the US company of billionaire Elon Musk, to launch the 1.4-billion-euro ($1.5 billion) mission.
Detecting and estimating satellite maneuvers more accurately
Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Polytechnic University of Milan and the company GMV have developed a new methodology for detecting and estimating satellite maneuvers that improves the operation of the systems currently in use. This development, which is already being tested in operational environments, may help reduce the problem of space debris.
The number of satellites and fragments of space debris in Earth orbit currently amounts to around 30,000, according to the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA catalogs, although researchers in this field estimate the real number to be around 100,000.