UK, South Korea join ASAT test ban, raising like-minded countries to seven
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Lensed galaxies in VV 191 (Webb and Hubble composite image)
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Lensed galaxies in VV 191 (Webb and Hubble composite image) Interacting galaxies VV 191 (Webb and Hubble composite image)
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Interacting galaxies VV 191 (Webb and Hubble composite image) Overlapping galaxies VV 191 (Webb and Hubble composite image)
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Overlapping galaxies VV 191 (Webb and Hubble composite image) SES closer to $4 billion payout after ULA launch to near-geostationary orbit
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United Launch Alliance launched a pair of satellites for SES Oct. 4 that are vital to the operator’s bid to claim nearly $4 billion in C-band clearing proceeds.
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Run the Solar System in 20 km
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Run the Solar System in 20 km Sherpa tug starts raising orbit more than a month after launch
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A Sherpa tug launched a month ago is still undergoing commissioning and has yet to start maneuvers as its orbit gradually decays.
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Sherpa tug yet to start raising orbit a month after launch
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A Sherpa tug launched a month ago is still undergoing commissioning and has yet to start maneuvers as its orbit gradually decays.
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Space to boost secure sustainable energy supplies
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Space applications, technologies and data are ready to accelerate the green transformation of the energy industry.
Amid Ukraine war, US set to fly Russian cosmonaut to ISS
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The United States will on Wednesday carry a Russian to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX ship, in a voyage that carries symbolic significance amid the Ukraine war.
Anna Kikina, the only female cosmonaut in service, is part of the Crew-5 mission, which also includes one Japanese and two American astronauts.
Blast-off is set for noon from the Kennedy Space Center, with the weather forecast so far promising.
Two weeks ago, an American astronaut took off on a Russian Soyuz rocket for the orbital platform.
The long-planned astronaut exchange program has been maintained despite soaring tensions between the two countries since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February.
SpinLaunch completes Flight Test 10
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SpinLaunch has announced the results of its tenth successful Flight Test of its Suborbital Accelerator from Spaceport America, New Mexico. The flight test, which occurred on September 27, 2022, demonstrated that SpinLaunch partners' standard satellite components are inherently compatible with the company's launch environment, and provided critical flight data, as all payloads were flown and reco SpaceX Crew 5 mission set to lift off for International Space Station
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NASA and Space X's Crew 5 mission is set to blast off for the International Space Station on Wednesday.
Hurricane Ian previously delayed the Crew 5 mission, along with the launch of the Artemis 1 moon test flight, but the Crew 5 launch is set for noon EDT.
The crew of four, which includes the first female commander and first Russian cosmonaut to fly on a SpaceX mission, arrived a Firefly Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys customer payloads with its Alpha Rocket
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Firefly Aerospace, a new space leader in launch, spacecraft, and in-space services, announced that its Alpha FLTA002 mission successfully reached orbit and deployed customer payloads, lifting off on October 1 at 12:01am PST from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
With the success of this mission, Firefly is now the first company to launch and reach orbit from US soil in only its s SOAR Telescope catches Dimorphos's expanding comet-like tail after DART impact
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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft intentionally crashed into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet in the double-asteroid system of Didymos, on Monday 26 September 2022. This was the first planetary defense test in which an impact of a spacecraft attempted to modify the orbit of an asteroid.
Two days after DART's impact, astronomers Teddy Kareta (Lowell Observatory) and M Curiosity targets Canaima bedrock for sampling: Sol 3612
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Over the weekend, Curiosity took compositional measurements of the "Canaima" bedrock target in order to determine if the target merits collecting drilled sample. Concurrently, the engineering team took preload measurements to determine the stability of the rock for drilling. This morning the science and engineering teams reviewed the information downlinked and were excited to approve moving forw