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Rocket Lab to Expand Semiconductor Production for Spacecraft with CHIPS Act Funding
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Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced the signing of a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms (PMT) with the Department of Commerce to receive up to $23.9M in funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. The investment aims to increase Rocket Lab's production of compound semiconductors for spacecraft and satellites by expanding and modernizing its facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico New Database to Improve Astronaut Health Could Benefit Earthlings
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As space travel becomes more frequent, a new biomarker tool was developed by an international team of researchers to help improve the growing field of aerospace medicine and the health of astronauts.
Dr. Guy Trudel (Professor in the Faculty of Medicine), Odette Laneuville (Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, and Director of the Biomedical Sciences) and Dr. Martin Pelchat (Associate Pr EU puts digital Earth in orbit for climate-change fight
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A software model of Earth, meant to simulate and monitor environmental hazards while findings ways to mitigate climate change, began its monitoring and predictive mission on Monday, the EU Commission said.
The Destination Earth initiative resulted in a digital model of the planet to simulate natural phenomena by utilising an "unprecedented amount of data", according to its website.
The m Origins of fast radio bursts examined using polarized light
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What scientists previously thought about where Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) come from is just the tip of the iceberg, according to new research led by astronomers at the University of Toronto. The mysteries of the millisecond-long cosmic explosions are unfolding with a new way of analyzing data from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME).
Published today in The Astrophysica Immune System Changes During Space Travel Could Affect Aging on Earth
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As long as humans have been traveling into space, astronauts have experienced significant health effects from the extreme conditions of space flight, notably the reduction of gravity.
Two Buck scientists led a team that has revealed for the first time how the lack of gravity affects the cells of the immune system at single cell resolution. As co-senior authors, along with Christopher E. Ma Preparing ESA's Arctic Weather Satellite for liftoff
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With ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite due to launch in a few weeks, the satellite is now at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California being readied for its big day. Once in orbit, this new mission will show how short-term weather forecasts in the Arctic and beyond could be improved.
Moving the Ariane 6 upper part to the launch pad for first flight
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Moving the Ariane 6 upper part to the launch pad for first flight ESA Impact 2024 – June Council Edition
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ESA Impact 2024 – June Council Edition
ESA Impact Council Edition: Spotlight on recent milestones
NASA's Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is doing science again after problem
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NASA's Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is sending science data again.
Voyager 1's four instruments are back in business after a computer problem in November, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said this week. The team first received meaningful information again from Voyager 1 in April, and recently commanded it to start studying its environment again.
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is drifting through interstellar space, or the space between star systems. Before reaching this region, the spacecraft discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn's moons. Its instruments are designed to collect information about plasma waves, magnetic fields and particles.
Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles (24.14 kilometers) from Earth. Its twin Voyager 2—also in interstellar space—is more than 12 billion miles (19.31 kilometers) miles away.
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NASA delays return of Starliner astronauts from space station
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Starliner's return to Earth is now delayed to June 22 or later, NASA announced Friday.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who embarked on the long-awaited Boeing Starliner mission June 5 and docked at the International Space Station the following day, will have to spend a little more time in orbit than originally planned.
Both astronauts were originally set to compl