Juice sends first ‘selfies’ from space
Saturday, 15 April 2023 10:24
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ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has taken its first monitoring camera images showing part of the spacecraft with Earth as a stunning backdrop.
The mission launched on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou on 14 April 14:14 CEST and the images were captured in the hours afterwards.
Kenya launches first operational satellite into orbit
Saturday, 15 April 2023 10:16 Write a comment
Kenya's first operational satellite was launched into orbit on Saturday by a SpaceX rocket that took off from California, USA, according to images from the US space company.
The launch, originally scheduled for Monday night in the United States, was postponed several times this week due to bad weather.
On Saturday, a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket took off at 0648 GMT from the base at Vandenbe Elon Musk forms X.AI artificial intelligence company
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Elon Musk has formed an X.AI artificial intelligence corporation based in the US state of Nevada, according to business documents that surfaced on Friday.
Musk, who is already the boss of Twitter and Tesla, was listed as director of X.AI Corporation founded on March 9, a state business filing indicated.
Musk recently merged Twitter with a newly created "X" shell company, keeping the bran Kenya deploys first earth observation satellite into space
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Kenya's first earth observation satellite was launched into space Saturday after two aborted attempts earlier in the week.
The African country's Taifa-1 was among the satellites on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The rocket's launch had to be scrubbed twice previously due to bad weather.
Kenya's satellite will fly over the country every four days and gather data for agriculture, land and environment monitoring, according to the Kenya Space Agency.
Data from the satellite is expected in the coming months, and the agency has set up a team of analysts. It said says the information will be distributed free to government agencies and to private companies for a reasonable fee.
The satellite was developed and designed by Kenyans but manufactured at Endurosat in Bulgaria at a total cost of 50 million Kenyan shillings ($371,000).
Kenyans were eager to watch the Falcon 9's launch online. Some described having the Taifa-1 enter orbit as a moment of national pride.
The country launched an experimental nanosatellite that lifted from the International Space Station in 2018.
SpaceX will try to launch most powerful rocket ever Monday
Saturday, 15 April 2023 05:40 Write a comment
SpaceX plans to carry out its first test flight on Monday of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon and eventually beyond.
The launch is scheduled to take place at 7:00 am (1200 GMT) from the sprawling Texas base of the private space company owned by billionaire Elon Musk.
Fallback times are scheduled later in the week if Monday's attempt i Europe's JUICE mission blasts off towards Jupiter's icy moons
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The European Space Agency's JUICE space probe successfully took off on Friday for a mission to discover whether Jupiter's icy moons are capable of hosting extra-terrestrial life in their vast, hidden oceans.
The launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, came after a previous attempt on Thursday was called off due to the risk of lightning.
Despite clou Mapping dark matter like never before
Saturday, 15 April 2023 05:40 Write a comment
A new groundbreaking image from one of the world's most powerful telescopes that reveals the most detailed map of dark matter distributed across one quarter of the sky, and deep into the cosmos, offers scientists a perspective that may lead to new methods to demystify dark matter.
The research that led to the image, completed by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, also pro How different were galaxies in the early universe
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An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting the "cosmic dawn" - the era after the Big Bang when stars first ignited and galaxies began to bloom.
A team of scientists from across North America, Europe, and South Africa has doubled the sensitivity of a radio telescope called the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA). With this bre FAA issues license for first Starship integrated test flight
Friday, 14 April 2023 21:36 Write a comment
The FAA has issued a launch license to SpaceX to the first integrated test flight of the company’s Starship/Super Heavy launch vehicle, scheduled for no earlier than April 17.
Orbex CEO resigns
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The chief executive of European small launch vehicle developer Orbex stepped down April 14 so that company can go to the “next level” ahead of its first launch.
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Juice for all Aerojet gets $215 million to boost production of solid rocket motors used in weapons for Ukraine
Friday, 14 April 2023 18:30 Write a comment
The Defense Department has agreed to provide Aerojet Rocketdyne $215.6 million to expand its rocket propulsion manufacturing faciltiies in order to speed up production of missiles for Ukraine, the Pentagon announced April 14.
From CERN to Jupiter: Juice embarks on its historic journey
Friday, 14 April 2023 16:48 Write a comment
It is not only in the tunnels of CERN that we learn about the origin and composition of the universe. Look up, and space offers the most beautiful phenomena to study: black holes, dark matter, cosmic rays, etc. Studying planets, their structure and their composition teach us a lot about the formation of our own planet and might one day lead us to find a habitat and possibly life.
One of the intriguing features of the biggest planet in our galaxy, Jupiter, is the sheer number of its moons, almost one hundred in total, three of which have large oceans under a huge ice crust.
Ariane 5 launches ESA’s JUICE mission to Jupiter
Friday, 14 April 2023 16:41 Write a comment
An Ariane 5 successfully launched a European spacecraft on an eight-year journey to Jupiter April 14 on the penultimate flight of the venerable rocket.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter completes 50th flight
Friday, 14 April 2023 16:20 Write a comment
The history-making rotorcraft has recently been negotiating some of the most hazardous terrain it's encountered on the Red Planet.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has completed its 50th flight on Mars. The first aircraft on another world reached the half-century mark on April 13, traveling over 1,057.09 feet (322.2 meters) in 145.7 seconds.