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Category: Space Exploration
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NASA’s Webb Catches Exoplanet Getting Roasted
Space Exploration this week: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed HD 80606 b, a gas giant four times Jupiter’s mass on a highly elliptical; and Combined observations from the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble have confirmed that…
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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…
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Mars Missions and Discoveries, ExoMars rover targets vast bed clay search life, and more.
Mars Missions and Discoveries this week: A new study using orbital data from Mars Express and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals the clay-rich deposits at; and NASA has officially ended the MAVEN Mars mission after an anomaly in December…
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Space Station & Orbital Operations, saga International Space Station, and more.
Space Station & Orbital Operations this week: On Friday, NASA ordered five of the seven International Space Station crew members into the SpaceX Crew Dragon; and NASA ordered ISS crew to shelter in a Crew Dragon spacecraft on June 5…
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Artemis Moon Missions and Rocket, Final Artemis III SLS Booster Segments En Route, and more.
Artemis Moon Missions and Rocket Updates this week: The final eight solid rocket booster motor segments for the Artemis III SLS rocket have shipped from Northrop; and Northrop Grumman has shipped the final eight solid rocket booster…
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Mars & Lunar Exploration Updates, NASA Says Farewell MAVEN Mars Mission Hosts Media, and more.
Mars & Lunar Exploration Updates this week: NASA has declared the MAVEN Mars orbiter mission unrecoverable and begun decommissioning after an anomaly in; and NASA has officially ceased recovery efforts for the MAVEN spacecraft, which…
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Astronomical Discoveries &, Webb reveals black hole that formed before its, and more.
Astronomical Discoveries & Observations this week: Webb NIRSpec integral field unit observations of the lensed, high-redshift quasar Abell2744-QSO1 have provided the; and The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a northern portion of the…