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Rocket Lab-launched CAPSTONE enters Lunar orbit
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Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) is celebrating the successful arrival of the Electron-launched, Photon-deployed CAPSTONE spacecraft to lunar orbit. Following an initial orbit insertion maneuver on Sunday, CAPSTONE will perform clean-up maneuvers over the next several days to complete insertion into its target orbit. CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and N PickNik Robotics and CisLunar Industries to Collaborate on In-Space Metal Processing
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PickNik Robotics, a leader in robotics software and engineering services, has announced a collaboration with CisLunar Industries, a space technology company working on in-space metal processing. The companies will explore how PickNik's MoveIt Space software for robotic arms can help CisLunar with the precision feeding of metal materials into their in-space metal-processing system, Modular Space SpaceRyde announces multiple launch agreements with ISILAUNCH
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SpaceRyde, the space transportation company building the interplanetary logistics infrastructure known as the Rocket Network, has has announced multiple launch agreements with ISILAUNCH, a launch services subsidiary of Netherlands based ISIS - Innovative Solutions in Space B.V. (ISISPACE) - with over 570 customer satellites, including Planet, brought to orbit.
The MLA is an agreement for f Benchmark Space Systems expands global production to meet rising propulsion system demand
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With its Halcyon propulsion systems playingpivotal roles in key military and commercial space missions this year, Benchmark Space Systems has announced it has tripled its team from 30 to 83 and boosted its 5-year production capacity to one-thousand engines - all in the last twelve months to meet rapidly rising demand for its mission-proven thrusters.
Benchmark has booked more than 250 engi NASA successfully launches mega Moon rocket
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NASA launched the most powerful rocket ever built on a journey to the Moon on Wednesday, in a spectacular blaze of light and sound that marked the start of the space agency's new flagship program, Artemis.
The 32-story tall Space Launch System (SLS) blasted off from the storied Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 01:47 am (0647 GMT).
"We are going," tweeted the space agency.
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The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard lifted off at 07:47 CET from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA on 16 November 2022.
The most powerful rocket ever built sent NASA’s Orion spacecraft and ESA’s European Service Module (ESM) to a journey beyond the Moon and back. No crew will be on board Orion this time, and the spacecraft will be controlled by teams on Earth.
ESM provides for all astronauts’ basic needs, such as water, oxygen, nitrogen, temperature control, power and propulsion.
Much like a train engine pulls passenger carriages and supplies power,
Antenna to link up CubeSat chains
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Antenna to link up CubeSat chains Experts Available to Discuss NASA Webb Telescope Science Results
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Experts from NASA and other institutions will be available by teleconference at 11 a.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 17, to answer media questions about early science results from the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope. It'll be tough to stop an asteroid at the last minute, but not impossible, study claims
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On September 26, 2022, NASA's Double-Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) made history when it rendezvoused with the asteroid Didymos and impacted with its moonlet, Dimorphos. The purpose was to test the kinetic impact method, a means of defense against potentially-hazardous asteroids (PHAs) where a spacecraft collides with them to alter their trajectory. Based on follow-up observations, the test succeeded since DART managed to shorten Dimorphos' orbit by 22 minutes. The impact also caused the moonlet to grow a visible tail.
However, as Hollywood loves to remind us, there are scenarios where a planet-killing asteroid gets very close to Earth before we could do anything to stop it.
EXPLAINER: NASA's new mega moon rocket, Orion crew capsule
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NASA is kicking off its new moon program with a test flight of a brand-new rocket and capsule.
Liftoff was slated for early Wednesday morning from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The test flight aims to send an empty crew capsule into a far-flung lunar orbit, 50 years after NASA's famed Apollo moonshots.
The project is years late and billions over budget. The price tag for the test flight: more than $4 billion.
A rundown of the new rocket and capsule, part of NASA's Artemis program, named after Apollo's mythological twin sister: