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Pasadena CA (JPL) May 05, 2023
Earth planning day - Friday, May 5th, 2023. We continue our triage of the "Ubajara" potential drill site in this plan. In the last plan, we brushed the surface and did some further investigation of Ubajara's chemistry and structure (APXS, ChemCam and MAHLI). Information that came down this morning indicated that the target appears to be representative of what we have been seeing recently, as we
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2023
"When pentacene is excited by light, the electrons in the material rapidly react," explains Prof. Ralph Ernstorfer, a senior author of the study. "It was an open and very disputed question whether a photon excites two electrons directly or initially one electron, which subsequently shares its energy with another electron." To unravel this mystery the researchers used time- and angle-resolv
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Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 07, 2023
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space and Defense-as-a-Service satellite company focused on mission-critical hardware manufacturing; multi-disciplinary engineering services; satellite design, production, launch planning, mission operations; and in-orbit support has announced the successful completion of a groundbreaking external flight test platform mission. In November of 2019, twelve
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Denver CO (SPX) May 07, 2023
The Space business area within Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has announced upcoming changes in order to promote greater effectiveness in delivering on customer missions, support growth and innovation, and create stronger collaboration with customers, suppliers and partners. The realignment follows the recent establishment of Lockheed Martin Space's Ignite organization, an innovation hub for rapid
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Beijing, China (SPX) May 07, 2023
The China Manned Space Agency announced on Friday that the Tianzhou-5 cargo spacecraft successfully separated from China's space station at 3:26 p.m. Beijing Time. The spacecraft, which had been supporting the Shenzhou-15 crewed mission, is now in independent flight mode. Tianzhou-5 was launched on November 12, 2022, from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan, a southern province o
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 07, 2023
More than 50 million people in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar draw water for drinking and agriculture from the Mekong River. With customized tools that use NASA observations and data, the people who manage that water supply have been improving their decision-making. It is a prime example of the work NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have been doing to
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Hannover, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2023
Alexandrite laser crystals are well suited for use in earth observation satellites. They are robust and enable laser systems with a tunable output wavelength. In the European Horizon 2020 project GALACTIC, the partners Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH), Optomaterials S.r.l. (Italy) and Altechna (Lithuania) have now succeeded in establishing a solely European supply chain for alexandrite laser cr
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Dragonfly on surface of Titan

A proposed cut of nearly 20% in the budget for NASA’s Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan in 2024 could force changes to the mission or its schedule, a top project official said May 3.

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U.S. defense contractor SAIC announced May 5 it will partner with European manufacturer GomSpace to develop small satellites for U.S.

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1st lunar eclipse of 2023 dims full moon ever so slightly
A penumbral lunar eclipse is seen from Lahore, Pakistan, on Feb. 11, 2017. Late Friday, May 5, 2023, into Saturday, May 6, stargazers in Asia and Australia were treated to a penumbral lunar eclipse, where the moon got only a bit darker and did not exhibit the hallmarks of a total lunar eclipse. Credit: AP Photo/K.M. Chaudhry, File

Stargazers in Asia and Australia had the best seats for the year's first lunar eclipse.

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Pentagon officials have called attention to DoD’s need to access commercial space industry services. However, very little of the Space Force’s budget is being allocated to these types of services, analyst Mike Tierney said May 2.

Week in images: 01-05 May 2023

Friday, 05 May 2023 12:10
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Week in images: 01-05 May 2023

Discover our week through the lens

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a red, yellow and orange arc crosses a black field. Six white dots along the arc represent satellites.

Scientific spacecraft programs are too important to the United States' welfare and our leadership in the world to ever shortchange or undervalue them through poor policy decisions

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BlackSky is requesting permission to operate two of its satellites in lower orbits as the spacecraft are running out of propellant.

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