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Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Sunita 'Suni' Williams were originally scheduled to spend a little more than a week aboard the ISS
Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Sunita 'Suni' Williams were originally scheduled to spend a little more than a week aboard the ISS.

Two astronauts stranded in space may sound like the start to a big-screen science thriller, but the Boeing Starliner mission is no work of Hollywood fiction.

Astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams were originally scheduled to spend a little more than a week aboard the International Space Station as part of the debut crew flight test of the Starliner.

However, the spacecraft encountered several issues during the flight, and now the two astronauts will likely have to extend their stay aboard the ISS for several months.

NASA will issue a decision by mid-August as to whether Wilmore and Williams can return on board Starliner, or if they will have to wait for their retrieval by a SpaceX craft.

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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2024
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) is set to launch its 52nd Electron mission, deploying a satellite for American space tech firm Capella Space. Scheduled for a 14-day window starting August 11th, the mission will launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula. It aims to place Capella's Acadia-3 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite into a 615km circular orbi
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2024
Orbit Fab, a leading provider of in-space refueling services, announced that its RAFTI (Rapidly Attachable Fluid Transfer Interface) refueling port has been approved by the Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) as a standard refueling interface for military satellites. The SSC's System Engineering Review Board (SERB) recommended RAFTI after confirming it meets the necessary technical q
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 06, 2024
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder enacted a collaborative Space Act Agreement Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, to advance research and modeling in the critical field of space weather. NASA and LASP are longtime space science and exploration partners, and this formal agreemen
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2024
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has secured a contract from GHGSat, based in Montreal, to develop two new greenhouse gas monitoring microsatellites, GHGSat-C12 and C13. These satellites will be built on SFL's cost-effective, high-performance 15-kg NEMO bus, the same platform used for the initial nine GHGSat spacecraft. The announcement was made by SFL at the 2024 Small Satellite Conference,
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 06, 2024
A team of scientists and engineers at NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collaborated to see if a small piloted drone, equipped with a specialized payload, could help create detailed maps of how fast water is flowing. Rivers supply fresh water to our communities and farms, provide homes for a variety of creatures, transport people and goods, and generate electricity. But river flows can
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Paris, France (SPX) Aug 09, 2024
The European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully completed the first phase of hot-fire tests on a new variable-thrust rocket engine, part of the Future Launchers Preparatory Programme (FLPP). Conducted in Warsaw, Poland, the tests focused on a rocket engine developed by a Polish consortium that is exploring innovative designs for propellant valves and injectors. These designs aim to vary thrust
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2024
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global leader in launch services and space systems, has commenced the installation of a state-of-the-art automated fiber placement (AFP) machine at its Neutron rocket production facility in Middle River, Maryland. The machine, touted as the largest of its kind, is set to revolutionize the production of carbon composite structures for Rocket Lab's Neutron la
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2024
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has conducted the first hot fire test of its new Archimedes rocket engine, marking an important step toward the inaugural launch of its Neutron medium-lift rocket. The successful hot fire test took place in August 2024 at Rocket Lab's Engine Test Complex, located within NASA's Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. During the test, Archimed
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2024
NASA has awarded a $1.13 million grant to an assistant professor at Mississippi State University (MSU) to develop an advanced computational tool designed to improve the design process of hypersonic vehicles for space exploration. Vilas Shinde, a faculty member in MSU's Department of Aerospace Engineering, secured the funding to create a new tool for flow stability and transition analysis.
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2024
NASA is calling on teams from colleges, universities, and technical schools nationwide to showcase their engineering talents in the 2025 Lunabotics Challenge. Applications for the competition open at 5 p.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 6. This event is designed to motivate Artemis Generation students to engage deeply with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines, contributing to adv
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Washington DC (UPI) Aug 8, 2024
The annual Perseid meteor shower is set to peak later this week with ideal viewing conditions anticipated in most places, according to reports. Commonly known as the "Perseids," the Perseid meteor shower is expected to peak Sunday night and before dawn the next morning on Monday, and is seen annually every four years by mid-July to late August. NASA says the Perseid is considered the "b
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Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 09, 2024
Ever since we learned that the surface of planet Mars is cold and dead, people have wondered if there is a way to make it friendlier to life. In a groundbreaking study published Aug. 7 in Science Advances, researchers from the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Central Florida have proposed a revolutionary approach towards terraforming Mars. This new meth
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Paris, France (SPX) Aug 09, 2024
ESA's Gaia mission, originally launched to survey stars, has demonstrated its prowess in asteroid exploration by identifying potential moons around more than 350 asteroids that were not previously known to have companions. Gaia has previously examined asteroids known to possess moons, termed 'binary asteroids,' and confirmed the presence of these tiny satellites using its highly accurate a
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