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Fleet Space' Exosphere Earth Scanning Technology tested at lithium exploration site
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HKATG tooling up for satellite mass production
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Intelsat and OneWeb partnership brings multi-orbit connectivity to airlines worldwide
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Antaris close seed funding round to accelerate development of software solutions for space
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WVU space robotics research helps Mars rovers find their footing
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Artemis I to launch first-of-a-kind deep space biology mission
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Europe Ready For Artemis
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ESA and NASA are working hand in hand before the first Artemis mission to the Moon through a series of joint mission simulations. Teams based at the Erasmus Support Facility (ESF) at ESA’s ESTEC facility in The Netherlands, the German Space Operations Centre at ESA’s Columbus Control Centre in Oberphfaffenhofen and NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are combining their expertise in a series of exercises to ensure a successful launch.
When it comes to simulations, it’s important that not everything goes perfectly right as it recreates - in real time - different stages of the mission to
Want to colonize Mars? Talk to this outer space anthropologist first
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Maybe infinity and beyond should wait.
Prominent physicists and wealthy tycoons envision life scattered across the solar system. Elon Musk wants humans to become a multiplanetary species. Jeff Bezos pictures floating space colonies home to billions.
Simulated-gravity ecosystems powered by the sun.
Rocket launch to image supernova remnant
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A Northwestern University astrophysics team is aiming for the stars—well, a dead star, that is.
On Aug. 21, the NASA-funded team will launch its "Micro-X" rocket from White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. The rocket will spend 15 minutes in space—just enough time to snap a quick image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, a star in the Cassiopeia constellation that exploded approximately 11,000 light-years away from Earth. Then, the rocket will parachute back to Earth, landing in the desert—about 45 miles from the launchpad—where the Northwestern team will recover its payload.
Short for "high-resolution microcalorimeter X-ray imaging rocket," the Micro-X rocket will carry a superconductor-based X-ray imaging spectrometer that is capable of measuring the energy of each incoming X-ray from astronomical sources with unprecedented accuracy.
"The supernova remnant is so hot that most of the light it emits is not in the visible range," said Northwestern's Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, who leads the project. "We have to use X-ray imaging, which isn't possible from Earth because our atmosphere absorbs X-rays. That's why we have to go into space.
J-Space partners with Virgin Orbit to bring sovereign air-launch capability to South Korea
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