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These milestones include first flights of two new X-planes: the X-57 Maxwell and X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft.
The X-57 Maxwell is Space junk on 5,800-mph collision course with moon
Weather satellite rockets to orbit to monitor US West
America's newest weather satellite blasted off Tuesday to improve wildfire and flood forecasting across the western half of the country.
Revised flight plan brings change for Samantha
In May 2021 it was announced that ESA astronaut and Dragon Crew-4 mission specialist Samantha Cristoforetti would serve as Commander of International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 68a.
As part of normal vehicle scheduling, the Space Station flight programme was recently updated adjusting the upcoming crew rotation for Crew-4 and Crew-5, resulting in a shorter mission for Crew-4. ISS Expedition 68 will now take place after Samantha’s departure from the Station.
Romania signs the Artemis Accords
Romania became the 16th country to sign the NASA-led Artemis Accords for cooperation in space exploration March 1.
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Congress presses NASA for more details on Artemis costs and schedules
Members of Congress, concerned about growing costs and slipping schedules, pressed NASA for more details about the management and overall strategy of the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration plan.
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Future astronauts might be able to 3D print their own spacesuits and parts as needed
One of the best motivators to solve a problem is to experience it yourself. Dr. Bonnie Dunbar happened to have just such an experience. She is a former NASA astronaut and is now a professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M. While she was in the astronaut corps, she realized that some of her fellow astronauts couldn't fit in an extra vehicular activity suit—more commonly known as a spacesuit. So she decided not only to create one for the individuals with the original problem but to create a process by which any other astronaut launched on any future mission can have a spacesuit tailored to their own specific body. And now, her former employer (NASA) is funding her and her lab to complete a feasibility study of this customization process as part of the recently announced NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program.
Dr. Dunbar's submission, known as The Spacesuit Digital Thread, received $175,000 to fund the research over the next nine months.
Satellites support latest IPCC climate report
Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature, affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, according to the latest state of the climate report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published this week.
The report utilises satellite observations as crucial input, including several long-term datasets of key aspects of the climate, known as Essential Climate Variables, generated via Europe’s leading research teams working as part of ESA’s Climate Change Initiative.
Moon impact: Chinese rocket stage still in space says U.S. Space Command
A spent rocket upper stage from China’s 2014 Chang’e-5 T1 mission thought set to impact the moon did not reenter the atmosphere as previously stated, according to U.S. Space Command.
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Rogozin puts poison-pill conditions on OneWeb Soyuz launch
This week’s Soyuz launch of a set of OneWeb satellites has been thrown into doubt after Russia made new demands on the company.
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