Introducing Commercial Crew-7
Thursday, 22 June 2023 04:28
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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 Touch and Go: Sol 3865
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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 Persevering across the upper fan in search of record-keeping rocks
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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 Ecuador becomes 26th nation to sign space-exploration Artemis Accords
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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 Unveiling Jupiter's upper atmosphere
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A North East planetary astronomer has been granted rare access to the world's largest deep-space telescope, providing him with a unique opportunity to discover more about the largest planet in our solar system - Jupiter.
Launched in December 2021, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) uses infrared radiation to look deep into space, meaning it can observe the first stars and even the fo NIST lays groundwork for future ultra-precise timing links to geosynchronous satellites
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Last year, scientists drove up Mauna Loa volcano on Hawai'i, aimed a laser at a reflector positioned on Haleakala peak on Maui, and beamed rapid pulses of laser light through 150 kilometers of turbulent air. While the pulses were exceedingly faint, they demonstrated a capability long sought by physicists: transmitting extremely precise time signals through the air between far-flung locations at Milky Way's central black hole woke up 200 years ago
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Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, is far less luminous than other black holes at the centers of galaxies we can observe, which means our galaxy's central black hole has not been actively gobbling up material around it. Yet new evidence from NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) telescope suggests the ancient sleeping giant woke recently AST SpaceMobile confirms 4G capabilities to everyday smartphones directly from space
Thursday, 22 June 2023 04:28 Write a comment
AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones, announced it has achieved repeated successful download speeds above 10 Mbps during testing of BlueWalker 3. Space-based cellular communications at 4G speeds using unmodified smartphones is another world first telecommunications achievement Ecuador signs Artemis Accords
Thursday, 22 June 2023 00:15 Write a comment
Ecuador joined the growing roster of countries backing the Artemis Accords for safe and sustainable space exploration June 21.
A trio of images highlight BepiColombo's third Mercury flyby
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 19:28 Write a comment
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, snapping images of a newly named impact crater as well as tectonic and volcanic curiosities as it adjusts its trajectory for entering Mercury orbit in 2025.
The closest approach took place at 19:34 UTC (21:34 CEST) on 19 June 2023, about 236 km above the planet's surface, on the night side of the p Detecting and estimating satellite maneuvers more accurately
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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.
Mynaric to supply laser communications for Raytheon’s missile-tracking satellites
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 18:31 Write a comment
Mynaric will supply laser communications terminals for seven military satellites made by Raytheon Technologies, the company announced June 21.
Intelsat walks away from SES merger talks
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Intelsat has ended talks about merging with rival satellite operator SES, a source close to the discussions confirmed.
Europe's Euclid space telescope to launch on July 1
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 16:12 Write a comment
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.
Space telescope tracing dark energy to be launched July 1
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 15:32 Write a comment
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?