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  Tokyo (AFP) April 25, 2023 A Japanese startup attempting the first private landing on the Moon said Wednesday it had lost communication with its spacecraft and assumed the lunar mission had failed. Ispace said that it could not establish communication with the unmanned Hakuto-R lunar lander after its expected landing time, a frustrating end to a mission that began with a launch from the United States over four months ago. "We have not confirmed communication with the lander," a company official told reporters about 25 min ... read more |
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Norway irked over Swedish rocket crash on its turfOslo (AFP) April 25, 2023 The Norwegian foreign ministry expressed irritation Tuesday with Sweden for not immediately informing it of a research rocket that crashed in Norway, in a rare spat between the two neighbours. ... more  
Russian cosmonauts delay ISS spacewalkWashington DC (UPI) Apr 25, 2023 Russian cosmonauts have delayed a spacewalk to move one of the airlock systems aboard the International Space Station from one module to another. ... more 
SpaceX delays launch of 46 Starlink satellitesWashington DC (UPI) Apr 25, 2023 SpaceX on Tuesday delayed its latest effort to populate the low Earth orbit with Internet communication satellites. ... more  
UAE probe offers unprecedented view of Mars moonParis (AFP) April 24, 2023 The United Arab Emirates' Hope space probe on Monday revealed Mars' smaller moon Deimos in unprecedented detail, shedding new light on the origin of the mysterious lumpy satellite. ... more |
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L3Harris awarded $145M to modernize US Space Domain Awareness capabilitiesMelbourne FL (SPX) Apr 21, 2023 L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) announced the award of option year four of the Maintenance Of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities (MOSSAIC) program. The $145 million contract from t ... more 
Fleet Space Technologies secures Australian defence space command contractSydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 24, 2023 Fleet Space Technologies, an Australian space technology company, has signed a AUD$6.4 million contract with Australia's Defence Space Command. The agreement marks the company's first foray into the ... more 
Mars reveals liquid core as scientists measure first seismic wavesWashington DC (UPI) Apr 25, 2023 Scientists have confirmed that Mars' core is liquid as seismic wave measurements have given valuable first-time clues about how the Red Planet was formed. ... more  
Webb reveals primordial galaxy cluster 650 million years after the Big BangBaltimore MD (SPX) Apr 25, 2023 Every giant was once a baby, though you may never have seen them at that stage of their development. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has begun to shed light on formative years in the history of th ... more |
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European Space Agency chief eyes tapping private industry partnersColorado Springs CO (AFP) April 19, 2023 European Space Agency director Josef Aschbacher promised a "transformation" of the continent's space sector in the coming years during an interview with AFP, including more collaboration between government and private industry. ... more 
Teasing strange matter from the ordinaryNewport News VA (SPX) Apr 20, 2023 In a unique analysis of experimental data, nuclear physicists have made the first-ever observations of how lambda particles, so-called "strange matter," are produced by a specific process called sem ... more  
China's space missions break new groundBeijing (XNA) Apr 24, 2023 Lunar samples, mineral discovery and experience for future missions among gains Chinese scientists have made major advances in the research of Earth's nearest celestial neighbor, the moon, thanks to ... more 
Open cooperation, China Aerospace goes to the worldBeijing, China (SPX) Apr 24, 2023 On November 21, 2022, President Xi Jinping pointed out in his congratulatory letter to the United Nations/China Space Exploration and Innovation Global Partnership Symposium that there is no end to ... more |
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A staunch supporter of China's space undertakingsBeijing (XNA) Apr 24, 2023 President Xi Jinping has been a staunch supporter of China's space undertakings. He has paid visits to several space launch sites and he frequently mentioned the country's space achievements in his ... more  
Tracking changes to water, ecosystems, land surfacePasadena CA (JPL) Apr 20, 2023 Merging data from multiple satellites, OPERA can help government agencies, disaster responders, and the public access data about natural and human impacts to the land. Where are flood waters f ... more 
Transforming nature conservation with the power of satellite imageryParis, France (SPX) Apr 24, 2023 Satellite imagery is changing conservation as we know it. By being able to take an inventory of the Earth's surface and observe changes, we can begin to understand ecosystem dynamics in an unprecede ... more 
Viasat confirms ViaSat-3 Americas set to launchCarlsbad CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2023 Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, has confirmed the scheduled launch date for the ViaSat-3 Americas satellite is April 18, 2023 during an approximately one-hour long launc ... more |
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Aerojet Rocketdyne to provide propulsion for three additional Orion spacecraftRedmond WA (SPX) Apr 20, 2023 Aerojet Rocketdyne recently received a $67 million contract award from Lockheed Martin to provide propulsion systems for the Orion spacecraft that are planned to launch on Artemis missions VI-V3. Th ... more 
Technicians apply foam to Artemis IIIHuntsville AL (SPX) Apr 20, 2023 Technicians at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, apply the first round of spray foam as part of the thermal protection system to the launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) of ... more 
DISH TV adding to fleet with new Maxar satellite orderWestminster CO (SPX) Apr 20, 2023 Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) (TSX: MAXR), provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, received an order for a direct broadcast satellite from DISH, des ... more 
NASA selects NAU researcher for international mission to Martian moonsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 20, 2023 A planetary scientist at NAU is part of a Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission to travel to Mars and survey the planet's two moons, including collecting a sample from one and returni ... more |
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