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SpaceX private Ax-1 mission's science includes self-assembling robots and light-powered air filters

Houston company Axiom Space has a huge science haul planned for its debut mission, including robots and filters that could assist with future space exploration at the moon or Mars. Axiom plans to launch Ax ...

Stuck valve stalls NASA's 2nd attempt to fuel giant Artemis 1 moon rocket

NASA's second attempt to fuel its Artemis 1 moon mission megarocket hit another snag on Monday (April 4) due to a stuck valve on ground equipment. A jammed vent valve high up on the mobile launcher structure supporting the Artemis 1's Space Launch ...

SpaceX, NASA delay launch of private Ax-1 astronaut mission to April 8

SpaceX's launch of the first all-private mission to the International Space Station has been delayed by two days and will now lift off no earlier than Friday (April 8), SpaceX and the mission's operator Axiom Space announced late Sunday (April 3).

NASA's Artemis I mega moon rocket test stopped for second time

CNN

CNN

This includes powering on the 322-foot-tall (98-meter-tall) Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, loading supercold propellant into the rocket's tanks, going through a full countdown simulating launch, resetting the countdown clock and draining ...

Shake and bake: NASA's Psyche is tested in spacelike conditions

NASA's Psyche spacecraft has just completed its own gauntlet of electromagnetic, thermal-vacuum, vibration, shock, and acoustic testing at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Psyche was deemed healthy and ready to proceed toward ...

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Starburst galaxies flourished in early universe

EarthSky

Pierluigi Rinaldi at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) led the research team. The team studied observational data from more than 20,000 distant galaxies. These astronomers used data collected in recent years with the Hubble Space ...

NASA uses moonlight to improve satellite accuracy

Reflected moonlight is a steady source of light that researchers are taking advantage of to improve the accuracy and consistency of measurements among Earth-observing satellites. "The Moon is extremely stable and ...

321 Launch: Space news you may have missed over the past week

Florida Today

Florida Today

Should all go to plan with the conclusion of NASA's wet dress rehearsal of its Space Launch System rocket on nearby pad 39B, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule will be rolled out to pad 39A at KSC on Tuesday.

Exploring monoatomic platinum catalysts

However, if the cat only needs a quick boost to catch a bird from there, then the sunflower can act as a "metastable intermediate step." This is essentially the mechanism by which individual atoms of a catalyst capture molecules in order to chemically ...

New Revelations Raise Pressure on NASA to Rename the James Webb Space Telescope

Scientific American

Scientific American

Sadness. Disappointment. Frustration. Anger. These are some of the reactions from LGBTQ+ astronomers over the latest revelations regarding NASA's decision not to rename the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), given that the agency long had evidence ...