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Transporting second booster for first Ariane 6
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Transporting second booster for first Ariane 6 Second booster for first Ariane 6
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Second booster for first Ariane 6 Week in images: 22-26 April 2024
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Week in images: 22-26 April 2024
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Celebrating the Hopper’s graduation Enhancing fusion reactor control through combined plasma management techniques
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) are advancing fusion technology by integrating two established plasma control methods-electron cyclotron current drive (ECCD) and resonant magnetic perturbations (RMP). This combination has shown promising results in improving plasma management, crucial for generating electricity through fusion.
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NASA has teamed up with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to form a research transition team dedicated to advancing wildland fire management technologies. This collaboration is responding to an increase in frequency and scale of wildland fires, as noted by the U.S. Forest Service.
The Wildland Fire Airspace Operations research transition team will explore and test innovative techno Lastest satellite advances China's remote-sensing capabilities
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China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp (CASIC), a prominent player in the nation's space industry, has announced plans to deploy the initial satellite of an extensive remote-sensing network within the next few months, according to a project manager.
Zhang Chuan of CASIC Space Engineering Development, a subsidiary leading the initiative in Beijing, stated that the inaugural satellite of Earth from Space: Seychelles
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Seychelles, an island republic in the western Indian Ocean. China's Shenzhou-18 mission docks with space station
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A spaceship carrying three astronauts from China's Shenzhou-18 mission safely docked at Tiangong space station Friday, state-run media reported, the latest step in Beijing's space program that aims to send astronauts to the Moon by 2030.
The crew took off in a capsule atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's northwest at 8:59 pm local time !1259 GMT) Thursday.
By early Friday the spacecraft had "successfully docked" with the space station, state-run news agency Xinhua reported, citing the China Manned Space Agency.
The mission is led by Ye Guangfu, a fighter pilot and astronaut who was previously part of the Shenzhou-13 crew in 2021.
ESA opens ideas factory to boost space innovation in Austria
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A centre to innovate the design and manufacture of space hardware has today opened in Vienna. Driving commercialisation in space, it is the first of its kind of ESA-backed disruptive innovation centres outside ESA’s own premises.