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- China launches new Gaofen-11 high resolution spy satellite SpaceNews · 19 Jul 2024 China added a fifth Gaofen-11 high resolution satellite to its CHEOS constellation with a launch late Thursday.
- Hubble Studies a Potential Galactic Merger NASA · 19 Jul 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 5238, located 14.5 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. Its unexciting, blob-like appearance seems to rese...
- Black body experiment on Ariane 6 captures Pale Blue Dot ESA · 19 Jul 2024 Black body experiment on Ariane 6 captures Pale Blue Dot
- PariSat school experiment sends back stunning Earth pics ESA · 19 Jul 2024 PariSat school experiment sends back stunning Earth pics
- Ariane 6 science-after-school experiment sends back striking snaps ESA · 19 Jul 2024 Ariane 6 science-after-school experiment sends back striking snaps
- Earth from Space: Central Ethiopia ESA · 19 Jul 2024 The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission brings us a false-colour radar image of central Ethiopia.
- Astra completes deal to go private SpaceNews · 19 Jul 2024 Astra Space ended more than three years as a public company July 18 by completing a deal to take the company private at a tiny fraction of what it was once valued at.
- Enhanced Dragon spacecraft to deorbit the ISS at the end of its life SpaceNews · 19 Jul 2024 SpaceX will develop a souped-up version of its Dragon spacecraft for NASA to handle the deorbiting of the International Space Station around the end of the decade.
- From One Crew to Another: Artemis II Astronauts Meet NASA Barge Crew NASA · 18 Jul 2024 Members of the Artemis II crew met with the crew of NASA’s Pegasus barge prior to their departure to deliver the core stage of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket to the Space Coast. NASA astronaut and pilot of the A...
- Sols 4248-4249: Lunch at Fairview Dome NASA · 18 Jul 2024 Earth planning date: Wednesday, July 17, 2024 We started our day at an outcrop called “Fairview Dome,” a light-colored rock so big that it can easily be seen from orbit! We have had our eye on Fairview Dome since Curiosi...
- NASA: ISS Deorbit Vehicle Will Cost $1.5 Billion, but It’s Essential SpacePolicyOnline.com · 18 Jul 2024 NASA and SpaceX are providing more details about the spacecraft SpaceX will develop to safely send the International Space Station to a watery grave about 6 years from now. The
- NASA Space ROS Sim Summer Sprint Challenge NASA · 18 Jul 2024 Space ROS is an open-source software framework, derived from ROS 2, which was created to be compatible with the demands of safety-critical space robotics applications. NASA is looking to expand the Space ROS repository w...
- NASA Sounding Rocket Launches, Studies Heating of Sun’s Active Regions NASA · 18 Jul 2024 By Wayne Smith Investigators at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will use observations from a recently-launched sounding rocket mission to provide a clearer image of how and why the Sun’s coron...
- New Evidence Adds to Findings Hinting at Network of Caves on Moon NASA · 18 Jul 2024 An international team of scientists using data from NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) has discovered evidence of caves beneath the Moon’s surface.
- The Earth Observer Editor’s Corner: Summer 2024 NASA · 18 Jul 2024 NASA’s third EOS mission—AURA—marked 20 years in orbit on July 15, with two of its four instruments—MLS and OMI—still collecting quality datasets.
- NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers a Surprise in a Martian Rock Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 18 Jul 2024 Among several recent findings, the rover has found rocks made of pure sulfur — a first on the Red Planet.
- The Earth Observer’s 35th Anniversary NASA · 18 Jul 2024 Welcome to a new era for The Earth Observer newsletter! Our 35th anniversary also marks the official public release of our new website. Over the past year and a half, The Earth Observer has migrated from a print publicat...
- Artemis II Core Stage on the Move NASA · 18 Jul 2024 On July 16, 2024, the first core stage of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the agency’s Artemis II mission began a journey from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. The core stage was moved onto th...
- Registration Opens for the 2024 NASA International Space Apps Challenge NASA · 18 Jul 2024 NASA invites innovators, technologists, storytellers, and problem solvers to register for the 2024 NASA Space Apps Challenge, the largest annual global hackathon.
- NASA Ames Welcomes New Zealand Prime Minister, Celebrates Partnership NASA · 18 Jul 2024 As one of eight nations that helped to develop the Artemis Accords, New Zealand is a valuable NASA partner. On July 12, New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon visited NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Sil...
- NASA: Life Signs Could Survive Near Surfaces of Enceladus and Europa NASA · 18 Jul 2024 Europa, a moon of Jupiter, and Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, have evidence of oceans beneath their ice crusts. A NASA experiment suggests that if these oceans support life, signatures of that life in the form of organic m...
- Preparing for Juice’s daring double flyby ESA · 18 Jul 2024 Next month, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will carry out the first combined lunar-Earth flyby. Preparations are underway at ESA mission control for this highly precise manoeuvre, which will harness the gravita...
- NASA plans for space station’s demise with new SpaceX ‘Deorbit Vehicle’ Spaceflight Now · 18 Jul 2024 The ISS Deorbit Vehicle, or DV, will be a custom-built, one-of-a-kind spacecraft needed to make sure the space station re-enters the atmosphere at the precise place and in the proper orientation to insure any wreckage th...
- Summary of the 2023 Sun – Climate Symposium NASA · 18 Jul 2024 Introduction Observations of the Sun and Earth from space continue to revolutionize our view and understanding of how solar variability and other natural and anthropogenic forcings impact Earth’s atmosphere and climate....
- ArianeGroup CEO: Reusable Ariane 6 “Not Economically Interesting” European Spaceflight · 18 Jul 2024 ArianeGroup CEO Martin Sion said on French public radio that unlike SpaceX with its Falcon 9 rocket, a reusable Ariane 6 was “not economically interesting” for Europe when the programme was created. The ArianeGroup chief...
- Chiara Manfletti, CEO Neuraspace – Leading Women in Space SpaceNews · 18 Jul 2024 In this episode of the SpaceNews Leading Women in Space series, correspondent Debra Werner speaks with Chiara Manfletti, CEO Neuraspace.
- Artemis II: no pressure ESA · 18 Jul 2024 The Orion vehicle that will bring astronauts around the Moon and back for the first time in over 50 years was recently tested in a refurbished altitude chamber used during the Apollo era.
- NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers a Surprise in a Martian Rock NASA · 18 Jul 2024 Among several recent findings, the rover has found rocks made of pure sulfur — a first on the Red Planet. Scientists were stunned on May 30 when a rock that NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drove over cracked open to reveal s...
- July 2024 Transformer of the Month: Brooke Weborg NASA · 18 Jul 2024 “She gets things done.” This is how colleagues describe Brooke Weborg, machine learning data scientist and engineer at NASA. Weborg was nominated as Digital Transformer of the Month for her work on the AI/ML (artificial...
- Maxar Intelligence unveils first images from next-generation WorldView Legion satellites SpaceNews · 18 Jul 2024 Electro-optical imaging satellites with resolution of 30 cm such as Maxar’s WorldView Legion are capable of capturing precise images of small objects and features on the Earth’s surface
- An Ancient Partnership: Co-Evolution of Earth Environments and Microbial Life NASA · 18 Jul 2024 NASA-supported scientists have examined the long and intricately linked history of microbial life and the Earth’s environment. By reviewing the current state of knowledge across fields like microbiology, molecular biolog...
- Amazon gears up for NASA satellite data relay demonstration SpaceNews · 18 Jul 2024 Amazon is preparing to demonstrate data relay services for NASA in the spring using upcoming production satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband constellation.
- Heart of Hertz 2.0 ESA · 18 Jul 2024 Heart of Hertz 2.0
- RFA Completes Full-Mission Hot Fire Test of Redshift Upper Stage European Spaceflight · 18 Jul 2024 German rocket builder Rocket Factory Augsburg has completed a full-mission hot fire test of its Redshift upper stage. The stage will now be sent to SaxaVord ahead of an inaugural RFA ONE flight later this year. The RFA O...
- NASA cancels half-billion dollar water-ice-seeking VIPER Moon rover Spaceflight Now · 18 Jul 2024 Much of the rover was complete and it was going through a series of testing when the project was scrapped. NASA said Astrobotic’s Griffin lander, which was supposed to carry VIPER to the Moon’s South Pole, will still pro...
- ESA gears up for the Farnborough International Airshow ESA · 18 Jul 2024 The Farnborough International Airshow is set to return for its 76th edition from 22 to 26 July 2024, and ESA will be there to showcase the agency’s latest achievements and to highlight its next steps and future vision fo...
- Firefly CEO leaves company SpaceNews · 18 Jul 2024 The chief executive of Firefly Aerospace has left the company amid reports the company was investigating an alleged inappropriate relationship.
- China prepares to launch new Long March 12 rocket SpaceNews · 18 Jul 2024 China is set to boost its space launch capabilities as preparations for the first launch of the Long March 12 are underway at a new commercial space launch center.
- NASA Cancels VIPER Lunar Rover SpacePolicyOnline.com · 18 Jul 2024 NASA announced today that it intends to cancel the highly-anticipated VIPER lunar rover that was to search for water ice at the Moon’s South Pole. Stressing that the VIPER team
- NASA cancels VIPER lunar rover SpaceNews · 18 Jul 2024 BUSAN, South Korea — NASA has canceled a robotic lunar rover mission that would have searched for ice at the south pole of the moon, citing development delays and cost