China kicks off construction of new telescopes for future lunar missions
Friday, 10 November 2023 06:42
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China has recently launched the construction of two 40-meter-aperture radio telescopes in Shigatse, located in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, and in Changbai Mountain area in northeast China's Jilin Province, respectively.
The two telescopes, developed by Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, are expected to offer technical support for NASA's Solar Jet Hunter Project Revived with Fresh Data and New Interactive Tasks
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NASA's Solar Jet Hunter, a project that utilizes the collective power of citizen scientists to uncover the mysteries of solar jets, has made a triumphant return. After a brief hiatus, the initiative is now equipped with an influx of fresh data harvested from NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) and bolstered by new user-friendly features designed to enhance public involvement.
Solar jets Construction on NASA mission to map 450 million galaxies is under way
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NASA's SPHEREx space telescope is beginning to look much like it will when it arrives in Earth orbit and starts mapping the entire sky. Short for Specto-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx resembles a bullhorn, albeit one that will stand almost 8.5 feet tall (2.6 meters) and stretch nearly 10.5 feet (3.2 meters) wide. Giving the observato Astronaut Frank Borman, commander of the first Apollo mission to the moon, has died at age 95
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A green glow in the martian night
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When future astronauts explore Mars’s polar regions, they will see a green glow lighting up the night sky. For the first time, a visible nightglow has been detected in the martian atmosphere by ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission.
Satellite industry at odds over proposed power limit review ahead of WRC-23
Thursday, 09 November 2023 21:12
Rocket Lab to launch hypersonic test vehicle for the Defense Innovation Unit
Thursday, 09 November 2023 21:10
Image: NASA sounding rocket launches into Alaskan aurora
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A sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 8, 2023, carrying NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's DISSIPATION mission. The rocket launched into aurora and successfully captured data to understand how auroras heat the atmosphere and cause high-altitude winds.
The teams continue to support a second sounding rocket launch for BEAM-PIE, a mission for Los Alamos National Laboratory that will use an electron beam to create radio waves, measuring how atmospheric conditions modulate them. The data is key to interpreting measurements from many other missions.
NASA's Sounding Rockets Program, funded by NASA's Heliophysics Division, is managed at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, under NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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Airbus and Voyager sign agreement with ESA on Starlab commercial space station
Thursday, 09 November 2023 15:44
Astra founders offer to take company private
Thursday, 09 November 2023 15:22
Webb, Hubble combine to create most colourful view of Universe
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Webb, Hubble combine to create most colourful view of Universe Four bidders selected to develop ground systems for U.S. missile-warning satellites
Thursday, 09 November 2023 14:48
Long March 3B launches ChinaSat-6E communications satellite
Thursday, 09 November 2023 13:54
Open doors for the ESA-ESAC Open Day
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On Saturday 21st October, the European Space Agency opened the doors of the European Space Astronomy Centre in Villanueva de la Cañada (near Madrid), ESAC, to host the ESA Open Day. With a full program of talks and activities, the event featured tours, hands-on laboratories for children and get-togethers with science communicators, ESA astronaut and experts. More than 1800 people, among adults and children, had the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the activities and programs in which ESA is involved every day.
Preparing for European commercial presence in low Earth orbit
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At ESA’s Space Summit in Seville, Spain, ESA, Airbus and Voyager Space signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the Starlab space station.