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SpaceX completes 3 rocket launches, 1 Dragon landing in 22 hours
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The last meteor shower of the year peaks a few days before Christmas
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Dreaming of a white Christmas – on Mars
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Step into the holidays with this picturesque ‘winter wonderland’ scene at the south pole of Mars, captured by ESA’s Mars Express.
330th ESA Council: Media information session
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Watch the replay of the media information session in which ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Council Chair Renato Krpoun (CH) update journalists on the key decisions taken at the ESA Council meeting, held at ESA Headquarters in Paris on 17 and 18 December 2024.
A fall of CubeSats
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Four pioneering ESA Technology CubeSats reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the last few months. Each was only about the size of a shoebox or smaller, but despite their diminutive dimensions the missions left an outsize legacy in terms of demonstrating innovative space technology, industrial capacity building and scientific data return.
Improving fusion plasma predictions with multi-fidelity data science models
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The quest for fusion energy, a potential solution to global energy challenges, has advanced through innovative approaches to plasma performance prediction. Magnetic confinement fusion reactors rely on intricate systems that confine high-temperature plasma within powerful magnetic fields. While this effort integrates technologies like superconducting magnets and advanced heating devices, understa Lockheed Martin prepares Next-Gen OPIR satellite for system testing
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Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has reached a significant milestone in the development of the U.S. Space Force's Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) Block 0 satellite. The satellite has been fully assembled, powered on, and advanced to system-level testing at the company's manufacturing facility in Sunnyvale, California.
This satellite SpaceX Launches SES O3b mPOWER Satellites to Expand Global Communications Network
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SpaceX successfully launched the SES O3b mPOWER mission on Tuesday afternoon, delivering two advanced communications satellites into medium Earth orbit (MEO). Liftoff occurred at 5:26 p.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The mission carried the O3b mPOWER 7 and 8 satellites, part of SES's next-generation communications constellation designed to provide NASA adjusts Crew-10 launch to late March 2025
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NASA and SpaceX have rescheduled the launch of the Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) to no earlier than late March 2025. The adjustment allows teams time to finalize processing for a new Dragon spacecraft set to support the mission. The spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at SpaceX's processing facility in Florida in early January.
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