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NASA selects Momentus for a five-year contract to enhance space operation technologies.
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Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), a leader in the new field of in-space transportation services, has reportes its selection by NASA to receive a significant indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) base contract. This award positions Momentus as a pivotal player among 15 companies chosen to support the United States' space exploration and technology advancement efforts over the next five year Sidus Space and Spire Global Satellites Soar into Orbit with SpaceX's Transporter-10 Mission
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Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) and Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) have both reported the successful launch and deployment of their satellites aboard SpaceX's Transporter-10 Rideshare mission. The mission, which took to the skies from the Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, marked a significant step forward for both companies in expanding their space-based capab New theory explains why white dwarf stars can cheat death
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In a paper published in Nature, scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study; the University of Victoria, Canada; and the University of Warwick, U.K., have proposed a new theory that explains why a puzzling population of white dwarf stars stopped cooling for ten billion years.
Open any astronomy textbook to the section on white dwarf stars and you'll likely learn that they are "dead star Space research sheds new light on formation of planets
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An international team of astronomers has shed new light on the fascinating and complex process of planet formation. Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) in Chile, researchers captured stunning images of more than 80 young stars and discs of dust and gas where planets are forming.
The research represents one of the largest surveys ever of planet-forming UCF scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to uncover clues about Neptune's evolution
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A ring of icy rocks orbiting our sun just beyond Neptune may give us a glimpse of how Neptune - and other objects in the outskirts of our solar system - were formed.
Mors-Somnus, a binary duo comprised of a pair of icy asteroids bound by gravity, was recently concluded to have originated within the Kuiper Belt, meaning it can serve as a basis to study and enrich our understanding of the dy Rover Kinesthetics: Sols 4116-4117
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Earth planning date: Monday, March 4, 2024: It has been a busy and exciting week for Curiosity and its science team. Our intrepid rover successfully drilled its 40th sample on Mars and today followed it up with an intensive campaign to characterize the tailings expelled while drilling "Mineral King." When APXS analyzes a target, it receives signals from the top millimeter or less of the sample ( GITAI Pioneers Robotic Construction of Lunar Communications Towers in Desert Simulation
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GITAI USA Inc. (GITAI), a leader in space robotics innovation, has successfully showcased its advanced robotics technology through the construction of a 5-meter-high communication tower. This achievement was realized in a desert environment meticulously designed to simulate the lunar surface, representing a "first of its kind" demonstration in space robotics.
GITAI, in a collaborative effo More planets than stars: Kepler's legacy
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Back on Earth: NASA's Orion capsule put to the test before crewed mission
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The Orion spacecraft that traveled around the moon and back during 2022's Artemis I mission completed a different round trip when it recently returned to Ohio for testing.
Now known as the Orion Environmental Test Article, the spacecraft is undergoing ground testing at NASA's Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. This testing is crucial to the safety and success of Artemis II—a 10-day flight test scheduled for 2025, during which four astronauts will demonstrate the spacecraft's capabilities in the lunar vicinity. The flight will be the first crewed mission under NASA's Artemis campaign.
What are Hubble and Webb observing right now? NASA tool has the answer
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It's not hard to find out what NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes have observed in the past. Barely a week goes by without news of a cosmic discovery made possible using images, spectra, and other data captured by NASA's prolific astronomical observatories.
But what are Hubble and Webb looking at right this minute? A shadowy pillar harboring nascent stars? A pair of colliding galaxies? The atmosphere of a distant planet? Galactic light, stretched and distorted on a 13-billion-year journey across space?
NASA's Space Telescope Live, a web application originally developed in 2016 to deliver real-time updates on Hubble targets, now affords easy access to up-to-date information on current, past, and upcoming observations from both Hubble and Webb.
Designed and developed for NASA by the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, this exploratory tool offers the public a straightforward and engaging way to learn more about how astronomical investigations are carried out.
With its redesigned user interface and expanded functionality, users can find out not only what planet, star, nebula, galaxy, or region of deep space each telescope is observing at the moment but also where exactly these targets are in the sky; what scientific instruments are being used to capture the images, spectra, and other data; precisely when and how long the observations are scheduled to occur; the status of the observation; who is leading the research; and most importantly, what the scientists are trying to find out.
