Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2024
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has encountered a hiccup in its quest to uncover the secrets of the Red Planet. The rover's team is currently assessing an issue with the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument, crucial for detecting signs of past microbial life on Mars. A malfunction has left one of two dust covers intended to pr

Space Coast FL (SPX) Feb 15, 2024
Since the December 1972 Apollo 17 mission, NASA has not launched a spacecraft to perform a soft landing on the Moon. The mission, dubbed IM-1, was originally scheduled to launch in the early morning hours on Wednesday (Feb. 14), but was scrubbed due to "off-nominal methane temperatures prior to stepping into methane load." A 14-foot-tall moon lander built by a Houston-based company, Intuit

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2024
The Space Systems Command (SSC) of the U.S. Space Force, in coordination with SpaceX, has completed the successful launch of six critical satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. This National Security Space Launch (NSSL), known as the USSF-124 mission, plays a crucial role in enhancing the United States' missile detection and defense capabilities.

Moscow (AFP) Feb 15, 2024
Russia on Thursday launched a supply rocket to the International Space Station, one of the rare Russia-US projects kept alive since Russia's offensive against Ukraine. A Soyuz-2 rocket carrying the Progress MS-26 cargo ship was launched at the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan, Russia's space agency said on its Telegram channel, showing a video of the lift-off. The rocket was due to ar

Kennedy Space Center FL (AFP) Feb 15, 2024
Intuitive Machines has been launched on its journey to the Moon, marking a significant milestone in private-sector space exploration. The company's Nova-C lander, aptly named "Odysseus," lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heralding a new dawn for lunar exploration and setting the stage for the United States to make its first soft landing on the lunar surface since the historic Apollo missions.

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The Arctic is experiencing disproportionately higher temperature increases compared to the rest of the planet, triggering a series of cascading effects. This rapid warming has profound implications for global climate patterns, human populations and wildlife.

The Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer mission (CIMR) will provide measurements to decision makers with evidence of change and impact in the polar regions – with a focus on the Arctic.

The mission has the largest radiometer developed by ESA and will provide high-resolution measurements related to sea ice, the ocean, snow and ice-sheet surfaces. This will be crucial in understanding the evolution of the

A new application channel is now open for ESA parabolic flights, another way to welcome proposals that study new technologies from both academic institutions and companies.

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 13, 2024
When darkness sweeps across the landscape during a total solar eclipse, unusual things start happening. Fooled by the false dusk, birds stop singing, crickets start chirping, and bees return to their hives. Reports of these atypical animal behaviors date back centuries, but the effects of an eclipse on plant and animal life are not fully understood. So, on April 8, 2024, the NASA-funded Ec

Lemont IL (SPX) Feb 12, 2024
For more than five years, scientists at the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica have been observing the sky with an upgraded camera. The extended gaze toward the cosmos is picking up remnant light from the universe's early formation. Now researchers have analyzed an initial batch of data, publishing details in the journal Physical Review D. The results from this limited dataset hint at even more