SpaceX targets end of month for private astronaut polar orbit mission Fram2
With the drama around the first human spaceflight of the year behind it, SpaceX is back to the business of sending private ...
Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet COâ‚‚ for first time
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...
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Is The US Space Force Spending Too Much On Satellite Laser Communications?
The EDRS system of the European Space Agency relays high-resolution Earth observation data in almost real time via optical comms. On NASA’s missions, optical technology is being trialed for deep-space ...
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Deep Space Network
This was potentially mission-ending; the S-band downlink had last been used in 1981 when the probe was still well within the confines of the solar system, and the fear was that the Deep Space ...
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Space probe: manufacturer declares Athena "dead" after tipping over on the moon
There is no longer any doubt about the premature end of the lunar lander Athena's IM-2 mission. The manufacturer Intuitive Machines announced on Friday that the space probe was no longer ...
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Failure is an option. Here's why some new space ventures go sideways
It's been a "sub-nominal" few days in the spaceflight realm. California startup AstroForge announced that its deep space probe, Odin was all but doomed after it lost contact with controllers.
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Failure is an option. Here's why some new space ventures go sideways
What connects these recent failures is that the spacecraft involved were developed ... in the increasingly competitive world of commercial space ventures. These companies embody a bold, risk ...