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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
USPACE Technology Group Limited ("USPACE," Stock Code: 1725.HK) is pleased to announce that the Group has signed the strategic partnership agreement with the Egyptian Space Agency ("EgSA"), in relation to satellite manufacturing and testing, satellite launch, education and training, greatly expanding its business presence in the fast-growing African space market. The collaboration between
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
Though the Sun orbits the Milky Way at a staggering speed of 220 kilometers per second, a newly discovered faint red star is racing across the sky at an even more astonishing pace - approximately 1.3 million miles per hour (600 kilometers per second). This makes it the first known "hypervelocity" very low-mass star, identified by a collaboration between citizen scientists and astronomers utilizi
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
Scientists have determined that the asteroid responsible for the mass extinction event 66 million years ago was a rare carbonaceous asteroid originating from beyond Jupiter. This discovery clarifies long-standing debates regarding the Chicxulub impactor and offers new insights into Earth's geological history and the extraterrestrial objects that have impacted it. The Earth has experienced
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
A new high-resolution global color image dataset of Mars has been released, thanks to data gathered by China's Tianwen-1 mission. This dataset is a significant advancement for Mars exploration, offering unprecedented detail and accuracy for global color images of the Martian surface. Mars' surface morphology, topography, and geological structure have long been studied through remote-sensin
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
Lunar Outpost has announced that Castrol will be the lead collaborator for its Mission Control Center during the upcoming Lunar Voyage 1 mission, set to launch later this year. This Mission Control Center will serve as the operational hub for Lunar Voyage 1 (LV1), providing crucial oversight and decision-making capabilities. The LV1 mission will target Shackleton Connecting Ridge near the
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Madrid, Spain (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
Neuraspace has expanded its network of partners by joining the EISCAT Scientific Association as an affiliate institution. EISCAT Scientific Association, known for providing high-latitude incoherent radar scattering facilities for scientific research since the 1980s, will now collaborate with Neuraspace, a leading European company in space traffic management (STM). This collaboration grants
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Washington DC (UPI) Aug 15, 2024
SpaceX on Thursday successfully launched into orbit two Earth-imaging satellites in its second round to build on its WorldView Legion constellation of satellites for Maxar. The launch took place at 9 a.m. EDT at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. WorldView's Legion 3 and 4 satellites were carried into space on top of a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 in what was
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Terran Orbital [NYSE: LLAP], a leading provider of satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense sectors. The transaction, valued at approximately $450 million, is expected to be finalized in the fourth quarter of 2024, pending regulatory and stockholder approvals. Terran Orbital, known for
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Researchers developed a test bed for separating valuable material on the moon
Image of the test bed machine. Credit: Frontiers in Space Technologies (2024). DOI: 10.3389/frspt.2023.1328341

It's often better to flesh out technologies fully on Earth's surface before they're used in space. That is doubly true if that technology is part of the critical infrastructure keeping astronauts alive on the moon.

Since that infrastructure will undoubtedly use in-situ resources—known as in-situ resource utilization (ISRU)—developing test beds here on Earth for those ISRU processes is critical to derisking the technologies before they're used on a mission.

That's the plan for a test bed designed by researchers at the German Aerospace Center in Bremen—they designed it to improve how well we gather water and oxygen from . Unfortunately, as their work described in a recent paper published in Frontiers in Space Technologies demonstrates, it will be a challenge to do so.

Water and oxygen are two critical components of any long-term lunar exploration plan.

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August's supermoon kicks off four months of lunar spectacles. Here's how to watch
The moon rises through clouds over the skyline of lower Manhattan in this view from West Orange, N.J., Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, during a supermoon period. Credit: AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File

The first of four supermoons this year rises next week, providing tantalizing views of Earth's constant companion.

Stargazers can catch the first act Monday as the inches a little closer than usual, making it appear slightly bigger and brighter in the .

"I like to think of the supermoon as a good excuse to start looking at the moon more regularly," said Noah Petro, project scientist for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

August's supermoon kicks off a string of lunar spectacles. September's supermoon will coincide with a partial lunar eclipse.

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