Seoul (AFP) Aug 5, 2022
South Korea's first lunar orbiter successfully launched on a year-long mission to observe the Moon, Seoul said Friday, with the payload including a new disruption-tolerant network for sending data from space. Danuri - a portmanteau of the Korean words for "Moon" and "enjoy" - was on a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida by Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX. It aims t

Washington (AFP) Aug 5, 2022
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Thursday launched six people to space, including the first from Egypt and Portugal, on the company's sixth crewed flight. Mission "N-22" saw the New Shepard suborbital rocket blast off around 8:58 am local time (1358 GMT) from Blue's base in the west Texas desert. The autonomous, re-usable vehicle sent its crew capsule soaring above the Karman line, the intern

Houston TX (SPX) Aug 05, 2022
Space may look empty, but it contains extreme temperatures, high levels of background radiation, micrometeoroids, and the unfiltered glare of the Sun. In addition, materials and equipment on the outside of the International Space Station are exposed to atomic oxygen (AO) and other charged particles as it orbits the Earth at the very edge of our atmosphere. Only the hardiest materials, equipment,

Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 05, 2022
During Artemis I, NASA plans to accomplish several primary objectives, including demonstrating the performance of the Orion spacecraft's heat shield from lunar return velocities, demonstrating operations and facilities during all mission phases from launch countdown through recovery, and retrieving the crew module for post-flight analysis. As the first integrated flight of the Space Launch

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 05, 2022
Tosol we uplinked a two-sol plan as Curiosity continues to navigate "Paraitepuy Pass." The terrain surrounding the rover, while visually stunning, has impacted our communication bandwidth and timing. In addition, these days Earth rises relatively late on Mars, pushing the handover (i.e., start of the plan) to the late morning when the thermal environment is suboptimal for APXS touch-and-go

Rochester NY (SPX) Aug 05, 2022
New images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show what may be among the earliest galaxies ever observed. The images include objects from more than 13 billion years ago, and one offers a much wider field of view than Webb's First Deep Field image, which was released July 12. The images represent some of the first out of a major collaboration of astronomers and other academic researchers team

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 05, 2022
Rashmi Karanth has always been fascinated by space. As a child, she would look up to the skies and wonder what lay beyond. The computer science engineer and business technology expert also has a keen interest in data and analytics. "How you make data consumable and present it as information is something I'm very passionate about," says Karanth. Having forged a highly successful caree

Lafayette CO (SPX) Aug 05, 2022
Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies LLC ("BCT" or "Blue Canyon"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, celebrated the grand opening of its new CubeSat Factory in Boulder, Colorado, with members of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The expanded 31,000-square-foot facility consolidates manufacturing ef

Astra Space announced Aug. 4 it is canceling its existing small launch vehicle after its most recent failure and will focus instead on a much larger vehicle that may not be ready to fly customers until 2024.

NASA and Roscosmos reiterated that they expect to continue operations of the International Space Station after 2024 as NASA continues to push for an extension to 2030.

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