Week in images: 10-14 April 2023
Friday, 14 April 2023 12:05
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Week in images: 10-14 April 2023
Discover our week through the lens
Time to designate space systems as critical infrastructure
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Space systems are fundamental to U.S. national and economic security. Despite the fact that an array of critical infrastructure and national critical functions rely on space systems, they are not one of our designated critical infrastructure sectors.
Europe's Jupiter probe launched
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The European Space Agency's JUICE mission to explore Jupiter's icy, ocean-bearing moons has blasted off, a day after the first launch attempt was called off due to the threat of lightning. More to comerana at 1214 GMT, 30 seconds earlier than Thursday's aborted effort. If successful, the uncrewed, six-tonne spacecraft will leave Earth orbit for on an eight-year journey through the Solar System aimi SpaceLogistics to service Intelsat satellite after Optus life-extending mission
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Intelsat has ordered one of three fuel pods Northrop Grumman’s in-orbit servicing subsidiary is launching in late 2024 to extend the life of one of its geostationary satellites by at least six years, the operator announced April 13.
Juice liftoff
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ESA’s latest interplanetary mission, Juice, lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, at 14:14 CEST on 14 April 2023 to begin its eight-year journey to Jupiter, where it will study in detail the gas giant planet’s three large ocean-bearing moons: Ganymede, Callisto and Europa.
Juice – JUpiter ICy moons Explorer – is humankind’s next bold mission to the outer Solar System. This ambitious mission will characterise Ganymede, Callisto and Europa with a powerful suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments to discover more about these compelling destinations as potential habitats for past or present
In Navy experiment, commercial satellites serve as key weapons against drug traffickers
Friday, 14 April 2023 11:18
First ispace mission ready for lunar landing as company stock starts trading
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As Japanese company ispace prepares to land on the moon for the first time, its stock is taking off on a Japanese exchange.
Europe's Jupiter probe set for new launch attempt
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The European Space Agency's JUICE mission to explore Jupiter's icy, ocean-bearing moons will again try to blast off on Friday, a day after the first launch attempt was called off due to the threat of lightning.
The spacecraft is scheduled to launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 1214 GMT, 30 seconds earlier than Thursday's aborted effort.
If suc Spotlight on Ganymede, Juice's primary target
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A key focus of ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will be Ganymede: Jupiter's largest moon, and an ideal natural laboratory for studying the icy worlds of the Solar System.
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There are a handful of key reasons Juice will home in on Ganymede.
Firstly, Ganymede is thought to have a salty ocean beneath its icy shell. This ocean may be large enough Search for alien life extends to Jupiter's icy moons
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Could vast, long-hidden oceans be teeming with alien life in our very own Solar System?
A new chapter in humanity's search for extraterrestrial life opens on Thursday as Europe's JUICE spacecraft blasts off on a mission to investigate the icy moons of Jupiter.
First discovered by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei more than 400 years ago, these ice-covered moons are so far from the Sun t Juno Marks 50 Orbits Around Jupiter
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NASA's Juno mission completed its 50th close pass by Jupiter on April 8, 2023. Since the spacecraft arrived at the giant planet in 2016, its JunoCam imager has captured spectacular views of Jupiter, and its large moons Ganymede, Europa, and Io. Many of those images were processed by volunteers called citizen scientists.
To mark the 50th close pass, NASA teamed up with Google Arts and Cultu Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completes 50th flight
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The history-making rotorcraft has recently been negotiating some of the most hazardous terrain it's encountered on the Red Planet.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has completed its 50th flight on Mars. The first aircraft on another world reached the half-century mark on April 13, traveling over 1,057.09 feet (322.2 meters) in 145.7 seconds. The helicopter also achieved a new altitude reco 'The Space Economy' - an Essential Guide for Investors and Entrepreneurs
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Remarkable advances in private launch capability and space-based technologies are creating vast new opportunities for businesses and investors in low-Earth orbit - and beyond. A new book by Space Capital founder and managing partner Chad Anderson plumbs the depths of these new opportunities, while also explaining the challenges and risks that need to be considered.
"The Space Economy: Capi UCF will help researchers study metal asteroids for resources, clues to formation
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AUniversity of Central Florida researcher will be using the newly constructed Two-meter Twin Telescope (TTT) in the Canary Islands, Spain, to study metal-rich M-type asteroids.
The work can inform the study of asteroids like 16 Psyche, an M-type, or metal, asteroid NASA is launching a mission in October 2023 to visit.
The M-type asteroids offer both high concentrations of metals that Lucy snaps its first views of Trojan Asteroid targets
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Some of the asteroids NASA's Lucy mission will visit are still more than 330 million miles (530 million kilometers) away from the spacecraft, which is more than three times the average distance between Earth and the Sun. But despite the great distance and the comparatively small sizes of these asteroids, Lucy caught views of four of them recently.
From March 25 to 27, 2023, Lucy used its h