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The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) is taking a new approach with its National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 procurement to increase the diversity and resiliency of its launch provider base....
Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station have completed an abbreviated four hour, forty three minute-long spacewalk to replace a faulty power unit on the exterior of the International Space Station.On their 32nd day...
The recent resurgence of interest in lunar exploration has captured the imagination of nations and private companies alike. After the landmark Apollo missions, the Moon remained a distant, although aspirational, goal for decades....
Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.
Researchers investigating the space...
A study using human cerebral organoids found that chronic wasting disease (CWD) is unlikely to transmit from deer, elk, and moose to humans, reinforcing...
Boeing's Starliner joins select club of crewed US spaceships
By Issam Ahmed and Lucie Aubourg
Washington (AFP) June 5, 2024
Throughout the annals of American space...
JWST spectroscopyThe Blue Jay survey is a Cycle-1 JWST programme (GO 1810) that observed about 150 galaxies at 1.7 < z < 3.5 in the COSMOS field with...
Iridium Secures Five-Year $94 Million Contract with Space Systems Command
by Clarence Oxford
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2024
Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) announced a...
Transit Method
When a planet passes directly between a star and its observer, it dims the star’s light by a measurable amount.
The transit method is...
Despite being extraordinarily difficult to detect for the first time, gravitational waves can be found using plenty of different techniques. The now-famous first detection...