NASA's Artemis 2 mission around Moon set for November 2024
Tuesday, 07 March 2023 20:14
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NASA is on track to launch a crewed mission around the Moon in November of next year after a successful unmanned test flight, the US space agency said Tuesday.
NASA officials provided an update on the Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the Moon for the first time since the historic Apollo missions ended in 1972.
The first Artemis mission wrapped up in December with an uncrewed Orion capsule returning safely to Earth after a more than 25-day journey around the Moon.
Artemis 2, scheduled to take place in late November 2024, will take a four-person crew around the Moon but without landing on it.
"We're looking forward to that crew flying on Artemis 2," NASA associate administrator Jim Free told reporters. "Right now there's nothing holding us up based on what we learned on Artemis 1."
NASA is to reveal the members of the Artemis 2 crew later this year. All that is known so far is that one of them will be a Canadian.
Rocket Lab ‘very happy’ with Space Force plan to procure launch services
Tuesday, 07 March 2023 18:57 Write a comment
Rocket Lab’s chief executive Peter Beck says the company played an active role in reshaping the U.S.
Latest astronaut from UAE getting used to space
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The second astronaut from the United Arab Emirates is still adjusting to life off the planet, after rocketing to the International Space Station last week.
Heart tissue heads to space to aid research on aging and impact of long spaceflights
Tuesday, 07 March 2023 18:11 Write a comment
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers are collaborating with NASA to send human heart "tissue-on-a-chip" specimens into space as early as March. The project is designed to monitor the tissue for changes in heart muscle cells' mitochondria (their power supply) and ability to contract in low-gravity conditions.
The tissue samples will be launched into space aboard SpaceX CRS-27, a resupply mission to the International Space Station, slated for liftoff no earlier than Tuesday, March 14, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Astronauts on board during the mission will also introduce three FDA-approved medicines to the samples in efforts to prevent heart cell changes known or suspected to occur in those undertaking long-duration spaceflights.
Florida’s Space Economy: The Future is Now
Tuesday, 07 March 2023 17:59 Write a comment
The foundation for a global aerospace economy was born in Florida and continues to soar to new heights in the Sunshine State.
Space Ambition now interactive!
Tuesday, 07 March 2023 13:35 Write a comment
The interactive version of the Space Ambition book is now online, featuring all the content and images included in the hardcover edition.
Boeing’s ground system for U.S. satellite communications passes key test
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Boeing completed a demonstration of a U.S.
Antenna verification framework now accepting drone measurements
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An antenna verification framework used by geostationary satellite operators has started accepting ground station measurements from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Danish drone venture Quadsat said March 6.
JPL making progress on Psyche independent review recommendations
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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is making progress addressing institutional problems that led to the delay of an asteroid mission, the lab’s director says.
Guide morphing rovers across alien world in evolutionary computing contest
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Thousands of years from now, the descendants of humankind gather via a galactic network of wormholes to begin the joint exploration of a curiously Mars-like world in deep space. A constellation of quantum communication satellites serve to oversee the progressive mapping of this terra incognita by AI rovers, which are capable of morphing their shape to traverse the most challenging terrain imaginable.
Using a data cube to monitor forest loss in the Amazon
Tuesday, 07 March 2023 11:00
Japan’s H3 rocket launch fails after second stage malfunction
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Japan’s brand-new H3 rocket was destroyed on its March 7 inaugural flight after the vehicle’s second-stage engine failed to ignite.
Japan's new H3 rocket fails again, forced to self-destruct
Tuesday, 07 March 2023 09:46 Write a comment
Japan's second attempt to launch its next-generation H3 rocket failed after liftoff on Tuesday, with the spacecraft forced to self-destruct after the command centre concluded the mission could not succeed.
The failure is a blow for Japan's space agency JAXA, which has billed the rocket as a flexible and cost-effective new flagship.
Its launch had already been delayed by several years, an Airbus wins contract from Angola for Earth observation satellite Angeo-1
Tuesday, 07 March 2023 09:46 Write a comment
As part of French President Emmanuel Macron's visit, Airbus Defence and Space has announced an agreement for Angeo-1, the first very high performance Angolan Earth observation satellite, to be manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space in France, which strengthens the collaboration between the two countries.
Jean-Marc Nasr, Head of Space Systems at Airbus said: "Space supports life on Earth. Galileo, how you’ve grown
Tuesday, 07 March 2023 08:59 Write a comment
Today Galileo is the world’s most precise satellite navigation system, delivering metre-level accuracy, and if you are a modern smartphone owner then you – like nearly four billion others around the world – are among its users. This week we are celebrating that almost exactly a decade ago, on 12 March 2013, Europe for the first time ever was able to determine a position on the ground using only its own independent navigation system, Galileo.