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ESA Celebrates Mars Express Success with Live Imagery Broadcast

The European Space Agency celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Mars Express mission by broadcasting an hour of live imagery from the orbiter. Mars Express,…
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Biden Welcomes 90 Space Force Guardians at Air Force Academy Graduation

President Joe Biden welcomed 90 new lieutenants to the Space Force on Thursday in Colorado with an Air Force Academy commencement address that highlighted the…
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NASA selects Blue Origin for its second lunar lander, 2029 mission to Moon’s south pole

Five astronauts will ride Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander for the 2029 Artemis V mission to the lunar south pole as part of a $7…
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European Space Agency Launches Scientific Mission Bound for Jupiter’s Icy Moons

The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explore (Juice) mission launched on April 14 on the penultimate Ariane 5 rocket, beginning the spacecraft’s long journey…
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First Three Months of 2023 Set Orbital Launch Record

Global orbital launch activity continued to accelerate in the first quarter of 2023. For the first time in history, more than 50 launches were attempted…
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Space Force Outlines Culture Goals in Handbook

America’s newest military service in April got its first document outlining the culture Space Force leaders want their troops to embrace. “The Guardian Spirit,” is…
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NASA’s Artemis Plans Call for $8.1 billion in 2024

NASA made headlines in April by naming the crew for the Artemis II lunar fly-by mission that’s expected to launch in late 2024. But even…
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Solar Cycle 25 Could Disrupt Satellites, Other Services, but Scientific Probes Are Providing New Data

The Sun lies at the center of our solar system and sets the cycle of our daily lives, yet so much remains unknown about how…
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NASA’s EMIT Instrument Tracks and Shares Data on Potent Methane Emissions Globally

One of NASA’s newest instruments on the International Space Station (ISS) is proving to be a multipurpose climate research tool as it demonstrated a secondary…
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U.S., Russia Discussing Repair Options for Space Station Following Discovery of Coolant Leak

A micrometeorite the width of a pencil tip sliced through a Soyuz spacecraft docked at the International Space Station at nearly 16,000 mph, wrecking a…
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RoboGlove Technology First Aided Astronauts, Now Is Marketed to Help Earthbound Workers

Exoskeletons that optimize human movements have been a staple of science fiction for decades, but the needs of astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS)…
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Space Foundation JSEP Program Boosts Students’ Interest in STEM Courses

Just as the space industry is thriving and creating a bevy of new jobs, falling STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) proficiencies and dwindling STEM-career…
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Space Is Critical Infrastructure; Securing It Is a National Imperative

This article was first published in June 2021. Edward Swallow is senior vice president of Civil Systems Group. Prior to CSG, he was vice president,…

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