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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center is preparing for the first hypersonic test flights of its Fiber Optic Sensing System (FOSS), a compact and lightweight technology that measures temperature and strain on high-speed vehicles. These upcoming rocket launches, scheduled for summer 2025, mark a key milestone in the advancement of hypersonic research. On March 26, Armstrong engineers condu
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
Southwest Research Institute and Yale University scientists have compiled recent advancements in understanding how late-stage accretion shaped the evolution of the solar system's rocky planets. Their review in Nature emphasizes how the final stages of planetary growth dramatically influenced geophysical, chemical and potentially habitable conditions on worlds like Earth, Mars, Venus and Mercury.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
A European-led team of astronomers has identified a colossal, high-temperature filament of gas stretching across 23 million light-years and connecting four galaxy clusters. The discovery sheds light on the elusive warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), a form of matter suspected to contain a significant portion of the universe's missing normal matter. Utilizing the Japanese Suzaku and Europ
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
Firefly Aerospace has unveiled a new lunar imaging service called Ocula, set to debut as early as 2026 aboard its Elytra spacecraft. Enabled by high-resolution ultraviolet and visible spectrum telescopes from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Ocula will support mineral detection, landing site scouting, and enhanced cislunar domain awareness. "Ocula will be one of the first, if
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 21, 2025
ArianeGroup has signed a new agreement with the French Space Agency (CNES) to spearhead the development and validation of next-generation, high-thrust rocket engines. These engines are expected to deliver between 200 and 300 tons of thrust-twice the output of the Vulcain 2.1, which powers today's Ariane 6 launch vehicle. The project will focus on creating advanced technologies tailored for

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Friday, 20 June 2025 11:08

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ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot’s first mission to the International Space Station now has a name: εpsilon. The mission name and patch were announced today at the Paris Air Show by ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Sophie Adenot, who joined remotely from the United States, where she is training for her spaceflight.

Sophie Adenot is one of the five astronauts selected from ESA’s most recent astronaut class of 2022. Following the successful completion of their basic training in spring 2024, Josef Aschbacher announced during the Space Council in Brussels that Sophie and fellow graduate Raphaël Liégois had been 

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ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot’s first mission to the International Space Station now has a name: εpsilon. The mission name and patch were announced today at the Paris Air Show by ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Sophie Adenot, who joined remotely from the United States, where she is training for her spaceflight.

Sophie Adenot is one of the five astronauts selected from ESA’s most recent astronaut class of 2022. Following the successful completion of their basic training in spring 2024, Josef Aschbacher announced during the Space Council in Brussels that Sophie and fellow graduate Raphaël Liégois

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At Le Bourget Paris Air Show, French President Emmanuel Macron talks with ESA Astronaut Sophie Adenot about her mission 'εpsilon'.

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