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Thursday, 17 March 2022 03:18

Carrier rocket preparing for its debut flight

Beijing (XNA) Mar 17, 2022

Smart Dragon 3, a new model of solid-propellant carrier rocket, is scheduled to make its debut flight in September, according to a senior rocket scientist. Engineers at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, the country's major rocket maker, are building the first Smart Dragon 3, which will be launched for the model's first mission, said Jiang Jie, a senior rocket scientist at the

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Thursday, 17 March 2022 03:18

Developing design tools for outer space structures

by Steve Martin for Purdue News

West Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Achieving affordable space exploration will require lightweight structures for vehicles, solar arrays and antennas. Lightweight materials also will be used for components of structures like pressurized habitats, cryogenic tanks, landing gears and truss cages. The problem is that NASA envisions that many of those structures will be made from tailorable

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Thursday, 17 March 2022 03:18

India maps out plan to increase satellite launches

New Delhi (Sputnik) Mar 17, 2022

The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (INSPACe) has started hiring people for top posts at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to take on new space missions and increase the manufacturing and launch of satellites. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to take its missions to another level with an increase in the number of satellite manufa

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Thursday, 17 March 2022 03:18

ISS crews prepare for flow of visitors, rotations over next month

Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 17, 2022

Crews on the International Space Station (ISS) will cope with almost unprecedented human congestion as 18 astronauts and cosmonauts arrive, work and depart from it over the next month, NASA ISS Operations Integration Manager Dina Contella said. "[The] Soyuz launch on schedule on Friday [is] bringing three Russian crew members to the ISS and then returning [on March 30] with three ISS crew

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Thursday, 17 March 2022 03:18

NASA extends Ingenuity Helicopter Mission

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2022

NASA has extended flight operations of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter through September. In the months ahead, history's first aircraft to operate from the surface of another world will support the Perseverance rover's upcoming science campaign exploring the ancient river delta of Jezero Crater. Along the way, it will continue testing its own capabilities to support the design of future Mars air v

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Wednesday, 16 March 2022 16:09

'Visionary' US astrophysicist Eugene Parker dead at 94

Eugene Parker, who in 2018 became the first person to witness the launch of a spacecraft bearing his name, was hailed as a visionary who laid the groundwork for the field of heliophysics.

Eugene Parker, a pioneering American astrophysicist whose mathematical prediction that charged particles streamed from stars in a solar wind was met with disbelief before he was ultimately vindicated, has died aged 94, NASA said on Wednesday.

Parker was hailed as a visionary who laid the groundwork for the field of heliophysics, the science of understanding the Sun and its interactions with Earth and the solar system, including space weather.

In 2018, he became the first person to witness the launch of a spacecraft bearing his name, NASA's Parker Solar Probe.

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Wednesday, 16 March 2022 17:31

NASA adds giant new dish to communicate with deep space missions

There's a powerful new member of NASA's family of giant antennas that enable engineers and scientists on Earth to communicate with the growing number of spacecraft exploring our solar system.

Called Deep Space Station 53, or DSS-53, the 111-foot (34-meter) antenna is part of NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN).