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NASA's PACE spacecraft successfully completes key environmental test
Consider it the "mother of all tests."
This summer, the PACE spacecraft (short for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) completed a critical phase of its launch journey: the thermal vacuum test (TVAC), where it was subjected to extreme temperatures and pressures in a specialized chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The objective? To verify the performance of the satellite once it's launched and operational.
"This is the best way to simulate what PACE will experience in space," said Craig Stevens, spacecraft systems lead.
X-ray mission lifts off to study high-energy Universe
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X-ray mission lifts off to study high-energy Universe Sławosz Uznański from Poland to train as a project astronaut at the European Astronaut Centre
As of 1 September 2023, Sławosz Uznański joined ESA as a project astronaut anticipating flying on a future space mission.
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ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will film thunderstorms and lightning shooting up towards space as part of the climate science of the Huginn mission.
Japan launches telescope and moon lander following weather delays
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency successfully launched a rocket Wednesday, with a high-powered X-ray telescope and moon lander on board, after the launch was scrubbed late last month due to high winds.
The H-2A rocket lifted off on time, at 7:42 p.m. EST, or 8:42 a.m. local time, from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, and deployed the space telescope on schedule.
"We ha Japan launches 'Moon Sniper' mission
Japan's "Moon Sniper" mission blasted off Thursday as the country's space programme looks to bounce back from a string of recent mishaps, weeks after India's historic lunar triumph.
Only the United States, Russia, China and as of last month India have successfully landed a probe on the Moon, with two failed Japanese missions - one public and one private.
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