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Month: January 2024

[31 Jan 2024] Lunar Master Plan: Hassell and European Space Agency launch pioneering habitat concept

Header image by Imi​go​.It Jan 19, 2024 Today marks the launch of our Lunar Habitat Master Plan – a revolutionary new concept designed in collaboration with the European Space Agency to support the development of the world’s first lunar habitat.

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[30 Jan 2024] China’s Chang’e-7 moon mission to target Shackleton crater

A mosaic of Shackleton Crater created by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera and ShadowCam teams. Credit: NASA/KARI/ASU HELSINKI — China will attempt to land on the illuminated rim of Shackleton crater near the lunar south pole with its 2026 Chang’e-7

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[30 Jan 2024] Iran successfully launches Qaem 100 rocket

Iran said Saturday it had conducted a successful satellite launch into its highest orbit yet, the latest for a program the West fears improves Tehran’s ballistic missiles, the Associated Press reports. The Iranian Soraya satellite was placed in an orbit

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[29 Jan 2024] Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission

Jaxa produced this render of Slim to show the awkward landing orientation that pointed the solar cells away from the Sun [Credit: JAXA] Japan’s Moon lander has resumed operations after being shut down for a week due to a power

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[28 Jan 2024] SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket modified for Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo launch on Jan. 30

“It’s taken a lot of modifications on our part to get this hardware ready to go fly.” A Northrop Grumman Cygnus freighter spacecraft in between two halves of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket payload fairing. (Image credit: NASA/Kennedy Space Center)

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[27 Jan 2024] Virgin Galactic launches four private astronauts as it prepares to end Unity flights

Virgin Galactic’s VSS unity suborbital spaceplane lands at Spaceport America at the conclusion of the Galactic 06 flight Jan 26. Credit: Spaceport America WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic conducted its first suborbital mission of 2024 on Jan. 26 as the company

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[26 Jan 2024] LIGO goes to space: ESA to proceed with LISA gravitational wave detector

A gravitational wave detector in space will be sensitive to unexplored phenomena. The LISA project will consist of three spacecraft in a triangular configuration, exchanging lasers. On Thursday, the European Space Agency’s Science Programme Committee gave the go-ahead to the

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[25 Jan 2024] NASA, Boeing Move into Next Phases of Flight Test Prep

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner crew ship is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port on the International Space Station as the orbitng complex flew 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexican state of Nayarit. Photo credit:

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[25 Jan 2024] Firefly Aerospace Onboarded as Launch Provider for the NRO with Alpha Rocket

New contract qualifies Firefly’s Alpha rocket to launch satellites for the NRO from both Vandenberg and Cape Canaveral. Cedar Park, Texas, January 25, 2024 – Firefly Aerospace, Inc., an end-to-end space transportation company, today announced it was selected by the

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[25 Jan 2024] Japan’s SLIM moon lander photographed on the lunar surface — on its nose (image)

The tiny LEV-2 rover, one of SLIM’s traveling companions, took the historic photo Japan just got an epic new photo to put in its space exploration scrapbook. The country’s SLIM spacecraft landed on the moon on Jan. 19, making Japan

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