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Moving the Ariane 6 upper part to the launch pad for first flight
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Moving the Ariane 6 upper part to the launch pad for first flight ESA Impact 2024 – June Council Edition
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ESA Impact 2024 – June Council Edition
ESA Impact Council Edition: Spotlight on recent milestones
NASA's Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is doing science again after problem
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NASA's Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is sending science data again.
Voyager 1's four instruments are back in business after a computer problem in November, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said this week. The team first received meaningful information again from Voyager 1 in April, and recently commanded it to start studying its environment again.
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is drifting through interstellar space, or the space between star systems. Before reaching this region, the spacecraft discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn's moons. Its instruments are designed to collect information about plasma waves, magnetic fields and particles.
Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles (24.14 kilometers) from Earth. Its twin Voyager 2—also in interstellar space—is more than 12 billion miles (19.31 kilometers) miles away.
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NASA delays return of Starliner astronauts from space station
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Starliner's return to Earth is now delayed to June 22 or later, NASA announced Friday.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who embarked on the long-awaited Boeing Starliner mission June 5 and docked at the International Space Station the following day, will have to spend a little more time in orbit than originally planned.
Both astronauts were originally set to compl NASA cancels ISS spacewalk after 'spacesuit discomfort'
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NASA called off a spacewalk Thursday morning at the International Space Station because of an issue with one of the space suits, officials said.
Astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Matt Dominick were in their suits and set to step out of the ISS when the mission was scrubbed.
"The spacewalk today, June 13, at the International Space Station, did not proceed as scheduled due to a spaces NASA says 'emergency' audio from ISS was simulation exercise
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NASA said that audio indicating distress over a sick crew member on the International Space Station Wednesday was part of a simulation exercise.
NASA said there was "no emergency situation going on aboard the International Space Station" in a post on the ISS X account.
"At approximately 5:28 p.m. CDT, audio was aired on the NASA livestream from a simulation audio channel on the g Frenchman found dead at Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome
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A Frenchman has died apparently of dehydration after illegally entering the territory of Russia's Baikonur space base in Kazakhstan for "extreme" tourism, officials said this week.
"Our embassy... has been informed of the death of a French tourist. It has been mobilised to offer support to his family," a diplomatic source told AFP on Thursday, two days after Russian authorities announced the Voyager 1 returning science data from all four instruments
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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is conducting normal science operations for the first time following a technical issue that arose in November 2023.
The team partially resolved the issue in April when they prompted the spacecraft to begin returning engineering data, which includes information about the health and status of the spacecraft. On May 19, the mission team executed the second step of that repair process and beamed a command to the spacecraft to begin returning science data.
Two of the four science instrumentsreturned to their normal operating modes immediately. Two other instruments required some additional work, but now, all four are returning usable science data.
The four instruments study plasma waves, magnetic fields, and particles. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are the only spacecraft to directly sample interstellar space, which is the region outside the heliosphere—the protective bubble of magnetic fields and solar wind created by the sun.
While Voyager 1 is back to conducting science, additional minor work is needed to clean up the effects of the issue.
Week in images: 10-14 June 2024
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Week in images: 10-14 June 2024
Discover our week through the lens
Ariane 6 launches GRBBeta: small satellite, big astrophysics
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Europe’s newest rocket soon launches, taking with it many space missions, each with a unique objective, destination and team at home, cheering them on. Whether launching new satellites to look back and study Earth, peer out to deep space or test important new technologies in orbit, Ariane 6’s first flight will showcase the versatility and flexibility of this impressive, heavy-lift launcher. Read on for all about GRBBeta, then see who else is flying first.
