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Category: Space Exploration
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How Planets Survive Stellar Death and, Webb studies how planet, and more.
How Planets Survive Stellar Death and New Discoveries this week: Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team observed the Jupiter-sized exoplanet WD 1856 b; and This matters for Space Exploration because it gives a…
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NASA’s Moon Base and Lunar Technology, NASA Awards More Moon, and more.
NASA’s Moon Base and Lunar Technology Plans this week: NASA has awarded nearly $600 million to Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines for four new CLPS; and NASA has announced a new solicitation under the NextSTEP-3 Omnibus…
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Hubble and Webb’s Stunning Cosmic, NASA s Hubble Captures, and more.
Hubble and Webb’s Stunning Cosmic Fireworks this week: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has released a new image of the stellar nursery LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud; and NASA released a Hubble Space Telescope image of globular cluster…
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NASA Programs & Infrastructure, Bringing Signals NASA NASA’s, and more.
NASA Programs & Infrastructure this week: NASA’s Launch Services Program at Vandenberg Space Force Base has converted a key telemetry engineering role from; and NASA’s Office of Inspector General reports that four canceled Artemis-related…
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Current & Upcoming Space Missions, Expedition 73 Crew Reflects, and more.
Current & Upcoming Space Missions this week: NASA’s Johnson Space Center hosted a welcome-home ceremony for Expedition 73 crews, highlighting mission; and China’s Long March 10B, a cargo variant of its new lunar-capable rocket family, is…
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Telescope Missions & Astronomical, ESA s Euclid captures Milky Way s crowded, and more.
Telescope Missions & Astronomical Discoveries this week: The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has produced the largest, most detailed visible-light image of; and NASA and commercial partner Katalyst Space are preparing for…
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Luca Parmitano: Artemis III pilot
Space Exploration this week: NASA has named ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano as pilot for Artemis III, a mission that will test Orion’s docking with; and NASA has assigned ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano as pilot for the Artemis III mission, now…
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Artemis Moon Mission Hardware and, Final Artemis III SLS Booster Segments En Route, and more.
Artemis Moon Mission Hardware and Training this week: This matters for Space Exploration because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Final Artemis III SLS; and Scott Wray, NASA’s Artemis EVA training lead, has spent over 16 years…
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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope and JWST, NASA Invites Media See, and more.
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope and JWST Discoveries this week: NASA has opened media accreditation for the arrival of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at Kennedy Space; and NASA has completed final inspection of the Roman Space…
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Space Telescope Discoveries and, Webb reveals black hole that formed before its, and more.
Space Telescope Discoveries and Future Observatories this week: The James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct mass measurement of a supermassive black hole in the; and The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a northern…