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China Conducts Five Rocket Engine Tests in a Day, Advancing Space Projects
On January 2, China tested five rocket engines in Beijing and Hebei Province. These tests included hydrogen-oxygen and methane-based engines for various applications, such as lunar missions and deep-space exploration. The trials mark a significant step in China’s efforts to enhance its space programmes. CASC’s engineers have highlighted the suc...
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Space Missions of 2025: Lunar Landings, Asteroid Sampling, and More
Space exploration in 2025 will see remarkable missions from global agencies like NASA, ESA, China, and Japan. Key initiatives include lunar landings through NASA’s CLPS and Japan’s M2/Resilience, which will test new technologies and study lunar resources. China’s Tianwen-2 mission aims to collect asteroid samples and explore a comet, advancin...
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SpaceX Plans To Develop 'Marslink' Network To Provide Internet On Mars
SpaceX has introduced a Marslink concept, a satellite-based communication network around Mars, to support interplanetary data exchange for future Mars missions. NASA reviewed this and other proposals, including Blue Origin's Blue Ring orbital tug and Lockheed Martin's MAVEN-based network. The Marslink network would build on SpaceX’s Starlink tech...
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NASA Astronaut Christina Koch Returning to Earth After Record Space Station Mission
US astronaut Christina Koch, who led the first all-female spacewalk in 2019, was due to return to Earth on Thursday after a record stay aboard the International Space Station, capping a busy mission that could yield key insights into deep-space travel.
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Mission To Discover Alien Life Given Green Light
A deep-space mission to discover habitable Earth-sized planets in other solar systems and detect extra-terrestrial life they may host has been given the go-ahead by the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Mars Spacecraft's First Missions Face Delays, NASA Says
NASA will probably delay the first two missions of its Orion deep-space capsule, being developed to send astronauts beyond earth's orbit and eventually to Mars, the US space agency said on Thursday.
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Got the Right Stuff? NASA is Hiring Astronauts
NASA issued a hiring call on Wednesday for space explorers that may fly on future missions aboard commercially built spacecraft or NASA's deep-space Orion capsule.
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Nasa Enters Into Key Partnerships for Deep-Space Missions
The public-private partnerships will see firms prepare concepts and projects in the areas of advanced propulsion, habitation and small satellites.
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NASA Enters Key Partnerships for Deep-Space Missions
NASA has selected 12 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) to develop the exploration capabilities necessary to enable commercial endeavours in human exploration to deep-space destinations such as Mars.
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SpaceX Rocket Blasts Off With DSCOVR Deep-Space Observatory
The rocket carries the Deep Space Climate Observatory, a $340 million mission backed by Nasa, the NOAA, and the US Air Force.
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Comet Probe Philae in Race Against Time to Crown Stellar Feat
Europe's deep-space robot lab Philae worked against the clock Friday, attempting to drill into a comet 510 million kilometres (320 million miles) from Earth to crown a historic exploration before its battery runs out.
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Comet Surface is Dark and Crusty, Deep-Space Probe Suggests
A European probe approaching a comet in deep space has found the body's surface to be relatively warm, suggesting it has a mostly "dark, dusty crust," mission controllers said on Friday.
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Nasa, Boeing Developing Space Launch System for Mars Rocket
The rocket will carry the Orion spacecraft that can carry up to four astronauts beyond low-earth orbit on deep-space exploration missions
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India's 450-crore mission to Mars to begin today: 10 facts
India is aiming to join the world's deep-space pioneers with a journey to Mars that starts today and costs 73 million dollars or Rs 450 crores.
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What Will Astronauts Eat on Mars? Researchers Come up With Recipes
Six researchers have spent the past four months living in a small dome on a barren Hawaii lava field at 8,000 feet (2,400 meters), trying to figure out what foods astronauts might eat on Mars and during deep-space missions.They emerged on Tuesday with...
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China Conducts Five Rocket Engine Tests in a Day, Advancing Space Projects
On January 2, China tested five rocket engines in Beijing and Hebei Province. These tests included hydrogen-oxygen and methane-based engines for various applications, such as lunar missions and deep-space exploration. The trials mark a significant step in China’s efforts to enhance its space programmes. CASC’s engineers have highlighted the suc...
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Space Missions of 2025: Lunar Landings, Asteroid Sampling, and More
Space exploration in 2025 will see remarkable missions from global agencies like NASA, ESA, China, and Japan. Key initiatives include lunar landings through NASA’s CLPS and Japan’s M2/Resilience, which will test new technologies and study lunar resources. China’s Tianwen-2 mission aims to collect asteroid samples and explore a comet, advancin...
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SpaceX Plans To Develop 'Marslink' Network To Provide Internet On Mars
SpaceX has introduced a Marslink concept, a satellite-based communication network around Mars, to support interplanetary data exchange for future Mars missions. NASA reviewed this and other proposals, including Blue Origin's Blue Ring orbital tug and Lockheed Martin's MAVEN-based network. The Marslink network would build on SpaceX’s Starlink tech...
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NASA Astronaut Christina Koch Returning to Earth After Record Space Station Mission
US astronaut Christina Koch, who led the first all-female spacewalk in 2019, was due to return to Earth on Thursday after a record stay aboard the International Space Station, capping a busy mission that could yield key insights into deep-space travel.
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Mission To Discover Alien Life Given Green Light
A deep-space mission to discover habitable Earth-sized planets in other solar systems and detect extra-terrestrial life they may host has been given the go-ahead by the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Mars Spacecraft's First Missions Face Delays, NASA Says
NASA will probably delay the first two missions of its Orion deep-space capsule, being developed to send astronauts beyond earth's orbit and eventually to Mars, the US space agency said on Thursday.
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Got the Right Stuff? NASA is Hiring Astronauts
NASA issued a hiring call on Wednesday for space explorers that may fly on future missions aboard commercially built spacecraft or NASA's deep-space Orion capsule.
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Nasa Enters Into Key Partnerships for Deep-Space Missions
The public-private partnerships will see firms prepare concepts and projects in the areas of advanced propulsion, habitation and small satellites.
-
NASA Enters Key Partnerships for Deep-Space Missions
NASA has selected 12 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) to develop the exploration capabilities necessary to enable commercial endeavours in human exploration to deep-space destinations such as Mars.
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SpaceX Rocket Blasts Off With DSCOVR Deep-Space Observatory
The rocket carries the Deep Space Climate Observatory, a $340 million mission backed by Nasa, the NOAA, and the US Air Force.
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Comet Probe Philae in Race Against Time to Crown Stellar Feat
Europe's deep-space robot lab Philae worked against the clock Friday, attempting to drill into a comet 510 million kilometres (320 million miles) from Earth to crown a historic exploration before its battery runs out.
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Comet Surface is Dark and Crusty, Deep-Space Probe Suggests
A European probe approaching a comet in deep space has found the body's surface to be relatively warm, suggesting it has a mostly "dark, dusty crust," mission controllers said on Friday.
-
Nasa, Boeing Developing Space Launch System for Mars Rocket
The rocket will carry the Orion spacecraft that can carry up to four astronauts beyond low-earth orbit on deep-space exploration missions
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India's 450-crore mission to Mars to begin today: 10 facts
India is aiming to join the world's deep-space pioneers with a journey to Mars that starts today and costs 73 million dollars or Rs 450 crores.
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What Will Astronauts Eat on Mars? Researchers Come up With Recipes
Six researchers have spent the past four months living in a small dome on a barren Hawaii lava field at 8,000 feet (2,400 meters), trying to figure out what foods astronauts might eat on Mars and during deep-space missions.They emerged on Tuesday with...
