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Friday, 26 April 2024 13:30
Second booster for first Ariane 6
Friday, 26 April 2024 13:17
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Second booster for first Ariane 6 Transporting second booster for first Ariane 6
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Transporting second booster for first Ariane 6 Space Force opens bidding for classified communications satellites
Friday, 26 April 2024 13:10
Hera mission plans Mars flyby en route to asteroid study
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ESA's Hera mission, aimed at planetary defense, will utilize a Mars flyby in March next year to gain velocity as it heads towards the Didymos binary asteroid system. During this maneuver, Hera will approach Mars within 6,000 km-closer than Mars' moons' orbits-and adjust its trajectory to closely observe Mars' moon Deimos and the Martian surface itself.
The flyby details were discussed at t Week in images: 22-26 April 2024
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Week in images: 22-26 April 2024
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Agile Space lands propulsion contract for U.S. Space Force mission
Friday, 26 April 2024 12:10
Commercial space station module developer Gravitics wins Space Force contract
Friday, 26 April 2024 10:42
Earth from Space: Seychelles
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Seychelles, an island republic in the western Indian Ocean. Hop hop hooray
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Celebrating the Hopper’s graduation China's Shenzhou-18 mission docks with space station
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A spaceship carrying three astronauts from China's Shenzhou-18 mission safely docked at Tiangong space station Friday, state-run media reported, the latest step in Beijing's space program that aims to send astronauts to the Moon by 2030.
The crew took off in a capsule atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's northwest at 8:59 pm local time !1259 GMT) Thursday.
By early Friday the spacecraft had "successfully docked" with the space station, state-run news agency Xinhua reported, citing the China Manned Space Agency.
The mission is led by Ye Guangfu, a fighter pilot and astronaut who was previously part of the Shenzhou-13 crew in 2021.
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China’s Shenzhou-18 crew arrive at Tiangong space station
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NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications demonstration transmits data over 140 million miles
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Riding aboard NASA's Psyche spacecraft, the agency's Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration continues to break records. While the asteroid-bound spacecraft doesn't rely on optical communications to send data, the new technology has proven that it's up to the task. After interfacing with the Psyche's radio frequency transmitter, the laser communications demo sent a copy of engineering data from over 140 million miles (226 million kilometers) away, 1.5 times the distance between Earth and the sun.