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Copernical Team

Copernical Team

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Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2022
China's first space launch site dedicated to commercial missions started construction in Wenchang, a coastal city in Hainan province, on Wednesday, according to the provincial government. The Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site program is a joint venture of the Hainan government and three State-owned space conglomerates-China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, China Aerospace Science a
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Long Beach CA (SPX) Jul 07, 2022
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced it is introducing a Responsive Space Program designed to on-ramp commercial and government satellite operators to the Company's 24/7 rapid call-up launch capability and streamlined satellite build and operation options. "Satellites are vulnerable to natural degradation, accidents, technical failure, and deliberate actions. Unexpectedly losi
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Rochester NY (SPX) Jul 07, 2022
NASA announced new funding for a project led by Rochester Institute of Technology alumni, faculty, and students that could power spacecraft to orbit the sun's poles for the first time. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program will provide Phase III funding to the Diffractive Solar Sailing project led by Amber Dubill '20 (mechanical engineering), '20 MS (mechanical engineering) of the
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Washington (AFP) July 7, 2022
Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk had twins last year with an executive at one of his companies, online outlet Insider reported Wednesday, citing Texas court documents. The babies' mother, 36-year-old Canadian Shivon Zilis, is an executive at Neuralink, Musk's brain-implant maker, and has worked at multiple of his other companies, including OpenAI and electric car manufacturer Tesla, I
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Washington DC (UPI) Jul 6, 2021
Virgin Galactic confirmed Wednesday it is retaining Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to build two next generation motherships, the company announced on Wednesday. The agreement calls for the first ship to enter service in 2025, the same year Virgin Galactic's first Delta-class spaceship is expected to begin revenue payload flights. They represent the spaceflight company's
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Washington DC (UPI) Jul 6, 2021
NASA has regained communications with its new lunar spacecraft, the space agency confirmed on Wednesday. "Mission operators have re-established contact with NASA's Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraft," NASA said in a statement. It did not immediately provide additional details or updates. "We have re-
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How scientist tested the effect of multicolor lighting on improving people's psychological state
Emotion and anxiety levels of the multicolour lighting group and the control group on the first, fourth, and seventh days. Credit: Space: Science & Technology

As missions for deep space exploration and space habitats are put on the agenda, astronauts need to withstand being tested by multiple stressors in confined and isolated conditions during such long flights, especially because in deep space exploration, problems such as signal delays make astronauts feel the anxiety of being far away from Earth and the psychological fear of deep space.

According to a series of experiments conducted recently on Earth and during current missions aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA believes that monotony of vision, in particular, aggravates the crew's anxiety, irritability, and depression. Moreover, a large number of studies have also found that crew members on long-term missions on the Antarctic Space Simulation Station are extremely susceptible to caused by visual monotony and monochromatic colors.

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Contact restored with NASA spacecraft headed to lunar orbit
Rebecca Rogers, systems engineer, left, takes dimension measurements of the CAPSTONE spacecraft in April 2022, at Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc., in Irvine, Calif. NASA said Tuesday, July 5, that it has lost contact with a $32.7 million spacecraft headed to moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit, but agency engineers are hopeful they can fix the problem. Credit: Dominic Hart/NASA via AP
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Harmony

User Consultation Meeting on Harmony: watch the replay

Follow the discussions on Harmony – the candidate mission for ESA’s tenth Earth Explorer

Tuesday, 05 July 2022 08:30

How to see Webb’s new images

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As excitement mounts for the unveiling of Webb’s first full-colour images on Tuesday 12 July, here’s how to participate in the global celebration via ESA’s channels. Choose from watching a livestream, attending an in-person event, or joining our social media activities.

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