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Category: Space Exploration
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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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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…