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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe aims to fly closer to the sun like never before

NEW YORK — A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. Plans call for Parker on Tuesday to hurtle through the sizzling solar atmosphere and pass within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface. At that moment, if the sun and Earth were at opposite ends of a football field, Parker …

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Sunita Williams Is Not Coming Back In February As NASA Delays Crew-10 Launch Date

ABP News

Science News: NASA has announced that SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station is now targeting no earlier than late March 2025 for its launch. The two seasoned astronauts, along with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, are to be brought back by the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that is taking the Crew-10 members to ISS. Crew-10 …

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Sunita Williams will not return from space in Feb 2025. Nasa announces new date

India Today

In a significant development for space exploration, Nasa has delayed the return of astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station until late March 2025. Steve Stich, manager of Nasa’s Commercial Crew Program, explained that the delay allows teams to complete processing on a new Dragon spacecraft, emphasising the meticulous work required in spacecraft preparation. The Crew-10 …

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4 days, 14 hours ago

Japan's ispace to land spacecraft on Moon's Sea of Cold, take a long lunar route

India Today

Ispace, a Tokyo-based lunar exploration company, has unveiled details for its second lunar mission, SMBC x HAKUTO-R Mission 2, during a keynote address. The Resilience lunar lander, developed by ispace, will utilise a low-energy trajectory similar to its predecessor in Mission 1. Graphic: ispace “Mission 2 represents our continued commitment to the lunar economy,” said Takeshi Hakamada, Founder & CEO …

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NASA Postpones Return of Stranded Starliner Astronauts to March

Wired

NASA has again postponed the return to Earth of Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, the astronauts stranded on the International Space Station after Boeing's Starliner capsule malfunctioned in the middle of this year. "Fabrication, assembly, testing, and final integration of a new spacecraft is a painstaking endeavor that requires great attention to detail,” said Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s Commercial …

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NASA again delays return of astronauts stranded on space station

Raw Story

Two U.S. astronauts stranded for months on the International Space Station will remain there at least until late March, NASA said Tuesday as it announced another delay in the mission to bring them home. Veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the ISS in June aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, and were due to spend eight days on the …

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NASA again delays return of astronauts stranded on space station

Deccan Chronicle

Two US astronauts stranded for months on the International Space Station will remain there at least until late March, NASA said Tuesday as it announced another delay in the mission to bring them home.Veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams arrived at the ISS in June aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, and were due to spend eight days on the orbiting …

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5 days, 14 hours ago

Elon Musk's SpaceX lost communication with Dragon during private spacewalk

India Today

A power outage at SpaceX's California facility during the historic Polaris Dawn mission has raised significant concerns regarding operational safety and regulatory oversight in the private space sector. The outage was triggered by a leak in a cooling system at SpaceX's Hawthorne facility, causing a power surge that disabled mission control's ability to communicate with its Dragon spacecraft in orbit. …

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Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex tracking Europa Clipper on its journey to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon

ABC

At 3am on a Monday morning as most of Australia slept, a small CSIRO team was wide awake and hard at work at Canberra's deep space tracking station. Europa Clipper's launch was a "a happy, textbook flight", Mr Nagle said. Before the rest of the CSIRO team picked up tracking and communicating with Europa Clipper when their shift officially started …

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Christmas in space: Sunita Williams and crew in holiday mood as Dragon departs

India Today

Sunita Williams and her crew aboard the International Space Station are embracing the holiday spirit following the recent departure of a SpaceX Dragon capsule. WATCH DRAGON LEAVE SPACE STATION Dragon cargo number 31 undocked yesterday and returned to planet Earth carrying the spoils from our research. pic.twitter.com/C1PtjkUk7P — NASA's Johnson Space Center December 16, 2024 Earlier, the unpiloted SpaceX Dragon …

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Sunita Williams and crew to undock Dragon from space, send cargo home

India Today

Space Station commander Sunita Williams along with other fellow Nasa astronauts has completed the transfer of cargo to the Dragon spacecraft to be sent to Earth on Monday. SpaceX is targeting Monday, December 16, 2024, for the next undocking opportunity of the CRS-31 Dragon resupply spacecraft from the International Space Station. This adjustment comes after mission managers decided to wave …

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1 week, 3 days ago

NASA mission solves volcanic mystery of Jupiter’s ‘tortured moon’ Io

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. But the moon’s wild volcanic activity wasn’t detected until Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and its moons in 1979, revealing Io’s dynamic surface that resembled a pepperoni pizza, Bolton said. We knew data from Juno’s two very close flybys could give us some insights on how this tortured moon actually worked.” This …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Nation's space journey continues apace

China Daily

Spectators observe the retrieval of a lunar soil sample on the Chang'e 6 mission, displayed at the 15th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, last month. HONG ZEHUA/XINHUA The first-ever samples retrieved from the moon's far side, an iconic feat achieved by China's most recent lunar expedition, Chang'e 6, were on display at the 15th China …

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Juno Mission sheds light on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io

India TV News

NASA's Juno mission has made an exciting discovery about Io, one of Jupiter’s moons known for its incredible volcanic activity. Researchers have found that Io’s volcanoes are not connected to a huge underground sea of molten rock, as previously thought. In 2023 and 2024, Juno spacecraft flew close to Io and collected important information about the moon’s gravitational field. One …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Nation's space journey continues apace

China Daily

Spectators observe the retrieval of a lunar soil sample on the Chang'e 6 mission, displayed at the 15th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, last month. HONG ZEHUA/XINHUA The first-ever samples retrieved from the moon's far side, an iconic feat achieved by China's most recent lunar expedition, Chang'e 6, were on display at the 15th China …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Nation's space journey continues apace

China Daily

Spectators observe the retrieval of a lunar soil sample on the Chang'e 6 mission, displayed at the 15th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, last month. HONG ZEHUA/XINHUA The first-ever samples retrieved from the moon's far side, an iconic feat achieved by China's most recent lunar expedition, Chang'e 6, were on display at the 15th China …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Artificial solar eclipse: Why are satellites trying to block the sun?

Al Jazeera

The European Space Agency launches Proba-3 to create an artificial solar eclipse and study the sun’s atmosphere, the corona. When you see a solar eclipse, you often think of the moon passing between the Earth and the sun, then temporarily blocking the sun’s light from reaching Earth. However, last week, the European Space Agency launched two spacecraft that will aim …

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2 weeks ago

European satellites launched to create an artificial eclipse

Salon

A pair of satellites astronomers hope can create an artificial eclipse were launched from a site in India last week. In addition to conducting this experimental maneuver, the so-called ESA's Proba-3 mission will observe a slice of the Sun's ethereal corona difficult to perceive from Earth. The larger one, known as the Coronagraph spacecraft, will explore the Sun’s corona, or …

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Proba-3: Why studying Sun, space weather have become imminent

Firstpost

Proba-3 builds on the legacy of ESA’s earlier solar missions, the Proba-1 and the Proba-2, which were also launched using ISRO's launch vehicles. Image Credit: ISRO On December 5, 2024, the Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched the PSLV-C59 vehicle carrying the Proba-3 spacecraft into a highly elliptical orbit. The other two instruments onboard of Proba-3 include the Digital Absolute …

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US further delays Artemis moon missions following technical problem in spacecraft

China Daily

Reid Wiseman, commander of NASA's Artemis II mission to the moon, speaks during a news conference about the agency's Artemis campaign at the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, December 5, 2024. LOS ANGELES -- NASA on Thursday announced delays in its Artemis moon exploration program following a technical problem identified in its Orion spacecraft. NASA …

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US further delays Artemis moon missions following technical problem in spacecraft

China Daily

Reid Wiseman, commander of NASA's Artemis II mission to the moon, speaks during a news conference about the agency's Artemis campaign at the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, December 5, 2024. LOS ANGELES -- NASA on Thursday announced delays in its Artemis moon exploration program following a technical problem identified in its Orion spacecraft. NASA …

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Nasa says Artemis mission to Moon will be majorly delayed as it reveals details of spacecraft problem

The Independent

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nasa says its Artemis mission to put astronauts back on the Moon will …

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The water on Earth might have been delivered from space by comets billions of years ago

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. When Earth formed around 4.6 billion years ago, some water likely existed in that gas …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Putin's secret space weapon: Kremlin's mysterious Cosmos 2553 satellite 'is fitted with dummy warhead' in 'forerunner to nuke that could wipe out rival spacecraft and cause chaos on Earth'

Daily Mail

A mysterious Russian satellite soaring at the outer limits of orbit around the Earth has triggered fears that Moscow is developing a space-based platform to launch missiles - perhaps even nuclear weapons - to destroy untold numbers of vital satellites. The 'Cosmos 2553' satellite was blasted through the atmosphere atop a Soyuz-2 rocket from Russia 's Plesetsk Cosmodrome in February …

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe aims to fly closer to the sun like never before

Sunita Williams Is Not Coming Back In February As NASA Delays Crew-10 Launch Date

Sunita Williams will not return from space in Feb 2025. Nasa announces new date

Japan's ispace to land spacecraft on Moon's Sea of Cold, take a long lunar route

NASA Postpones Return of Stranded Starliner Astronauts to March

NASA again delays return of astronauts stranded on space station

NASA again delays return of astronauts stranded on space station

Elon Musk's SpaceX lost communication with Dragon during private spacewalk

Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex tracking Europa Clipper on its journey to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon

Christmas in space: Sunita Williams and crew in holiday mood as Dragon departs

Sunita Williams and crew to undock Dragon from space, send cargo home

NASA mission solves volcanic mystery of Jupiter’s ‘tortured moon’ Io

Nation's space journey continues apace

Juno Mission sheds light on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io

Nation's space journey continues apace

Nation's space journey continues apace

Artificial solar eclipse: Why are satellites trying to block the sun?

European satellites launched to create an artificial eclipse

Proba-3: Why studying Sun, space weather have become imminent

US further delays Artemis moon missions following technical problem in spacecraft

US further delays Artemis moon missions following technical problem in spacecraft

Nasa says Artemis mission to Moon will be majorly delayed as it reveals details of spacecraft problem

The water on Earth might have been delivered from space by comets billions of years ago

Putin's secret space weapon: Kremlin's mysterious Cosmos 2553 satellite 'is fitted with dummy warhead' in 'forerunner to nuke that could wipe out rival spacecraft and cause chaos on Earth'