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NASA’s 1st Female Chief Engineer At Kennedy Space Center Wants To Put A Space Station Around The Moon.

When NASA builds its first space station near the moon, how will we ship items out there? Teresa Kinney, NASA‘s first female chief engineer at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), is one of the managers working to put the Gateway lunar space station together in orbit around the moon later in the 2020s. Gateway […]

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NASA’s Lucy Asteroid-Hopping Spacecraft Pins Down Surface Ages Of 1st Asteroid Targets.

Last November, when NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew past its first official asteroid target named Dinkinesh, it found the space rock was not one, not two but three rocks huddled together. While scientists were surprised to spot Selam, Dinkinesh’s natural satellite, they were shocked to discover that Selam itself was, in fact, two objects melded together.

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Giant Mars Asteroid Impact Creates Vast Field Of Destruction With 2 Billion Craters.

Over two million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Mars, scarring the surface with one massive crater and around two billion smaller individual craters. These secondary craters appear across a region of 1,000 miles (1,800 kilometers), making this asteroid event one of the biggest impacts seen on the Red Planet in relatively recent history.

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Still Alive! Japan’s SLIM Moon Lander Survives Its 2nd Lunar Night.

SLIM’s not dead yet. The SLIM spacecraft, Japan’s first-ever successful moon lander, has survived the long, cold lunar night for the second time. Mission team members announced the news via X on Wednesday (March 27), in a post that also featured a photo newly snapped by the lander’s navigation camera. SLIM, whose name is short

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US-Africa Session On Space Cooperation, Trade and Sustainability To Be Held During the 2024 NewSpace Africa Conference.

On April 3, 2024, the second day of the NewSpace Africa Conference in Luanda, Angola, stakeholders from the United States of America and African governments, civil society, and industry will convene in a high-level meeting to foster space partnerships and commerce. This meeting continues strengthening the symbiotic relationship between the two regions in space-related endeavours.

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United Launch Alliance To Launch Final Delta Heavy IV Rocket Today.

The era of Delta Heavy IV is coming to an end. For the last 64 years, United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) heavy-lift rocket has led an impressive career lofting large payloads into space. However, on Tuesday (March 28), the rocket will lift off one last time when it launches from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral

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Boeing Files Lawsuit Against Virgin Galactic Over Development Of New Mothership Aircraft.

Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences are suing Virgin Galactic over unpaid work and the misappropriation of trade secrets. The suit alleges that Virgin Galactic has not paid $26.4 million in invoices for work related to the development of a new “mothership” aircraft intended to power Virgin’s next-generation suborbital space planes. The suit was

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Space New Image Reveals Milky Way’s Black Hole Is Surrounded By Powerful “Twisted” Magnetic Fields, Astronomers Say.

Astronomers have discovered powerful “twisted” magnetic fields spiraling around the black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way, the European Southern Observatory said Wednesday. A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) for the first time showed in polarized light a ring of magnetic fields surrounding the Sagittarius A* black hole.

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Explosive, Green ‘Devil Comet’ Has Hidden Spiral Swirling Around Its Icy Heart, Photo Trickery Reveals.

The explosive, city-size “devil comet” that is due to fly past Earth later this year has a hidden spiral of light surrounding its gigantic icy heart, new images show. This glowing green swirl would likely have remained undetected without a bit of photo wizardry. The comet, named 12P/Pons-Brooks (12P), is a 10.5 mile-wide (17 kilometers)

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Telecoms MTN Ghana Sees Starlink As a Strategic Partner, Not A Competitor – Outgoing CEO

The Outgoing CEO of MTN Ghana, Selorm Adadevoh says the company sees Starlink as a strategic partner that will provide an additional channel of connectivity for MTN to serve its customers better. He was speaking to shareholders at the 6th Annual General Meeting of MTN Ghana. This week, the Minister of Communications and Digitalization, Ursula

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