Welcome home Matthias - Crew-3 splashes down
Friday, 06 May 2022 03:50
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ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer is safely back on Earth after splashing down off the coast of Florida, USA, at 05:43 BST/06:43 CEST today alongside NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron in Crew Dragon capsule Endurance.
NASA identifies Artemis 1 rocket issues, plans another wet dress rehearsal for June
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NASA is targeting early June for its next attempt of the Artemis 1 wet dress rehearsal, officials announced on Thursday.
The test aims to demonstrate that the rocket can be safely loaded with propellant and practice the launch day procedures, aside from actually launching, to identify concerns and potential issues.
Previous attempts at the wet dress, conducted in April, resulted Examining the Heart of Webb: The Final Phase of Commissioning
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is now experiencing all seasons - from hot to cold - as it undergoes the thermal stability test. Meanwhile, activities are underway for the final phase of commissioning: digging into the details of the science instruments, the heart of Webb. To complete commissioning, we will measure the detailed performance of the science instruments before we start routine sci Solving the mystery of frost hiding on Mars
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A new study using data from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter may explain why Martian frost can be invisible to the naked eye and why dust avalanches appear on some slopes.
Scientists were baffled last year when studying images of the Martian surface taken at dawn by NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. When they looked at the surface using visible light - the kind that the human eye perceives - they co NASA's Psyche starts processing at Kennedy
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Bound for an asteroid of the same name, the orbiter is undergoing final preparations for its August launch.
Since its arrival on April 29, the Psyche spacecraft has moved into the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where technicians removed it from its protective shipping container, rotated it to vertical, and have begun the final steps to prepa NASA's Swift tracks potential magnetic flip of monster black hole
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A rare and enigmatic outburst from a galaxy 236 million light-years away may have been sparked by a magnetic reversal, a spontaneous flip of the magnetic field surrounding its central black hole.
In a comprehensive new study, an international science team links the eruption's unusual characteristics to changes in the black hole's environment that likely would be triggered by such a magneti Hubble reveals surviving companion star in aftermath of supernova
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a witness at the scene of a star's explosive death: a companion star previously hidden in the glare of its partner's supernova. The discovery is a first for a particular type of supernova - one in which the star was stripped of its entire outer gas envelope before exploding.
The finding provides crucial insight into the binary nature of massive s China launches Jilin-1 commercial satellites
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China on Thursday launched a Long March-2D rocket to place a group of eight satellites in space.
Satellite Jilin-1 Kuanfu 01C, together with seven Jilin-1 Gaofen 03D satellites, was lifted at 10:38 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi and soon entered the preset orbit.
With its wide coverage, Jilin-1 Kuanfu 01C can provide im Echostar says Jupiter-3 won’t be ready for 2022 launch
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Echostar says satellite builder Maxar Technologies won’t deliver its long-awaited Jupiter-3 satellite in time for its end-of-year launch on a Falcon 9 rocket.
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China Siwei releases 30 cm imagery from SuperView Neo
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China Siwei’s newest commercial imaging satellites SuperView Neo-1 01 and 02 were successfully launched into space Apr. 29 aboard a Long March rocket.
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NASA's Psyche spacecraft starts processing at Kennedy Space Center
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Bound for an asteroid of the same name, the orbiter is undergoing final preparations for its August launch.
Since its arrival on April 29, the Psyche spacecraft has moved into the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where technicians removed it from its protective shipping container, rotated it to vertical, and have begun the final steps to prepare the spacecraft for launch. In the coming months, crews will perform a range of work including reinstalling solar arrays, reintegrating a radio, testing the telecommunications system, loading propellants, and encapsulating the spacecraft inside payload fairings before it leaves the facility and moves to the launch pad.
Tomorrow.io on track for 2024 weather constellation
Thursday, 05 May 2022 16:57 Write a comment
Adding microwave sounders to its constellation will not push back the timeline for startup Tomorrow.io to begin gathering weather data via satellite.
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NOAA seeks input on new satellite sensors and digital twin
Thursday, 05 May 2022 15:59 Write a comment
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is holding a series of meetings next week with potential government, academic and industry partners to discuss the agency’s plan to evaluate emerging satellite and ground architecture technologies.
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Astronaut crew returning to Earth after six months on ISS
Thursday, 05 May 2022 15:53 Write a comment
NASA's Crew-3 mission was returning home to Earth on Thursday after six months aboard the International Space Station.
The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft with NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, and Tom Marshburn, as well as European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer undocked from the orbital laboratory overnight.
Their 23.5 hour journey back should see them splash down off the coast of Florida at 12:43 am on Friday (0443 GMT).
They leave behind the one Italian and three American astronauts of Crew-4, and three Russian cosmonauts.
NASA, Boeing ready for second Starliner test flight
Thursday, 05 May 2022 15:20 Write a comment
NASA and Boeing say they’re confident they have resolved a valve issue that delayed a test flight of the company’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle last year and are ready to try again later this month.