Chinese scientists discover ubiquitous, increasing ferric iron on lunar surface
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Webb reveals wide diversity of galaxies in the early universe
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Speedcast wins contract renewal for Asia-Pacific Teleport Services
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Blue Canyon Technologies provides small satellite critical technologies on Transporter-6 Launch
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First rocket launch of the New Year leaves Wenchang for space
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NASA selects experimental space technology concepts for initial study
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Webb reveals links between galaxies near and far
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China's first private sector 2023 rocket launch up, up and away
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Commercial innovation for NOAA ground enterprise architecture
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NOAA would “far exceed the funds available” if the agency carries out plans to expand its constellation through 2042 without changing its ground architecture, said Michael Morgan, Commerce Department assistant secretary for environmental observation and prediction.
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Historic UK rocket mission ends in failure
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First Virgin Orbit U.K. launch fails
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Virgin Orbit’s first launch from the United Kingdom failed to reach orbit Jan. 9, dealing a high-profile setback to a company that has been struggling financially.
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European firms partner for LEO collision avoidance demo
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Three young European space companies said Jan. 9 they have teamed up to test a collision avoidance system on a small satellite this year in low Earth orbit.
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Observing lightning with a cubesat constellation
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NASA Marshall Space Flight Center is working with Los Alamos National Laboratories and the University of Alabama, Huntsville, on Cubespark, a proposed constellation of six cubesats to map lightning.
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Full moon rising: The first lunar spectacle of 2023 is this weekend's wolf moon
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If you lift your eyes to the sky Friday night, you can catch the first full moon of 2023—the wolf moon.
The full moon can best be seen at 6:08 p.m. EST on Friday and will appear full through Sunday morning, according to NASA.
"Look for the moon to rise from the northeastern horizon around sunset that evening," according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.
This is the first of 13 full moons in 2023, the Old Farmer's Almanac said.
The moon is also known as a micromoon, because the moon, which circles the Earth in an elliptical orbit, is farther from the Earth, said Space.com.
Why is it called the wolf moon?
The first full moon of the year is known as the wolf moon because historically it was believed during the winter wolves howled more at night because they were hungry, the Old Farmer's Almanac said.
The name has stuck even though there are doubts about the accuracy of the wolf moon moniker.
Why is it also called a micromoon?
For this full moon, the moon will be about 250,000 miles from Earth.
Orion back at Kennedy Space Center so NASA can dissect Artemis I mission
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The Orion space capsule from Artemis I has come full circle, having launched from Kennedy Space Center, traveled 1.4 million miles in space and around the moon, splashed back down to Earth in the Pacific Ocean, and now journeyed 2,500 miles over land for its return to Florida.
After Orion was recovered at sea on Dec. 11, it made its way to Naval Base San Diego before heading by truck to arrive at KSC on Dec. 30. It now sits at NASA's Multi Payload Processing Facility, still sealed tight from its celestial journey.
The passengers have been waiting patiently to get out of the capsule. Since they're just mannequins, though, they can wait a little longer.
The most human-looking of the three, named Commander Moonikin Campos in deference to the late Arturo Campos who helped NASA bring the Apollo 13 crew safely back to Earth, was joined by two partial-body mannequins named Zohar and Helga. Their presence will help NASA determine just what sort of radiation levels and other flight stresses humans will face during the first crewed flight of Orion on Artemis II.