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China’s Chang’e 6 Mission Carried A Stone Flag To The Moon’s Far Side.

About that five-star red flag now in position on the far side of the moon — it’s made of basalt, a type of volcanic rock that’s plentiful on the lunar surface (as well as here on Earth). On June 2, China’s Chang’e 6 robotic lander touched down in the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin on the […]

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Solar Flare Blasts Out Strongest Radiation Storm Since 2017.

It’s the sunspot region that just does not want to quit! Beastly sunspot AR3697 has made headlines again just before it makes another exit. The sunspot region, formerly known as AR3664, produced the historic geomagnetic storm that led to May’s global auroras. On Saturday (June 8), the sunspot fired off a M9.7-class solar flare, the

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Boeing’s 1st Starliner Astronaut Mission Extended Through June 18.

The first astronaut mission of Boeing’s Starliner capsule will last a bit longer than we’d thought. Starliner launched on June 5, carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station (ISS) on a shakeout cruise called Crew Flight Test (CFT). Wilmore and Williams arrived at the orbiting lab on June 6

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Virgin Galactic Launches VSS Unity Space Plane On Final Suborbital Spaceflight With Crew Of 6.

Virgin Galactic launched six people to suborbital space on Saturday (June 8), launching a Turkish astronaut and three space tourists on what was the final voyage of the VSS Unity space plane. Unity, attached to the belly of its carrier plane Eve,  took off from runway at Spaceport America in New Mexico at 10:31 a.m.

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At Long Last: Europe’s New Ariane 6 Rocket Set To Debut On July 9.

Europe’s new Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket is set to launch for the first time on July 9 after a series of delays. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Ariane 6 rocket, developed by ArianeGroup, will lift off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The date of the rocket‘s long-awaited inaugural flight was announced at the ILA

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Astronauts Test SpaceX Starship Hardware And Spacesuits for Artemis 3 moon Mission.

Come 2026, NASA plans to land humans on the moon for the first time since 1972. Times have changed, as can be gauged from the new rockets, spacecraft and spacesuits. To prepare for the Artemis 3 moon-landing mission, in late April two astronauts donned Axiom Space’s new spacesuits and for the first time tested out

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Nigeria Unveils Plan to Launch Home-Grown Satellites for Sustainable Development at EU-NASRDA Workshop.

During a stakeholders’ workshop in Abuja, themed “AI, Big Data Analytics, Automation, and Space Technology Application for Sustainable Development’’, and organised by the European Union in partnership with the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Chief Uche Nnaji, the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, revealed Nigeria’s plans to launch satellites developed by Nigerian

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Virgin Galactic Eyes June 8 For Final Commercial Spaceflight On VSS Unity Spaceplane.

The excitement is building for the liftoff of Virgin Galactic’s seventh commercial spaceflight. The launch window for the mission, known as Galactic 07, opens at 8:30am MT (10:30 a.m. EDT or 1430 GMT) on Saturday (June 8) and will depart from Spaceport America in southwestern New Mexico. The Galactic 07 crew will include Axiom Space

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