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China Lunar Exploration: Chang’e-6 to go through a number of stages
It was a successful start to another first for mankind. China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe blasted off Friday from Hainan Province on the back of the country’s most powerful rocket. It’s mission – to collect and return samples from the mysterious far side of the moon. The probe will go through many stages on the 53-day…
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Launch Roundup: Starliner delayed further; 21st flight for Falcon 9 booster; New Shepard returns to crewed missions
SpaceX reached another milestone when booster B1062 became the first in its fleet to fly for the 21st time on Friday night, exceeding the previously set limit of 20 flights per booster. Blue Origin also launched its first crewed mission for over 18 months on Sunday, taking six more humans briefly above the Karman line.…
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China’s Lunar Mission: Country’s most powerful rocket successfully launches Chang’e-6 probe to moon for 53-day mission
It was a successful start to another first for mankind. China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe blasted off Friday from Hainan Province on the back of the country’s most powerful rocket. It’s mission – to collect and return samples from the mysterious far side of the moon. Sun Ye has more on the probe’s unprecedented 53-day mission.…
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China’s Lunar Mission: Long March-5 carrier rocket is used for country’s most crucial missions
The first crucial step of the Chang’e-6’s historic journey to retrieve samples from the far side of the Moon is made possible by China’s most powerful carrier rocket, the Long March-5Y8. Sun Ye finds out how the rocket has been upgraded. SUN YE, Wenchang, Hainan province “Whenever a Long March 5 rocket gets ready at…
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China develops first 100 kg vehicle-mounted liquid hydrogen system
China has successfully developed its first 100-kilogram class vehicle-mounted liquid hydrogen system, marking a new breakthrough in the country’s transportation sector, according to its developer China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). As one of the core components of liquid hydrogen heavy trucks, the new system is fully domestically produced and will help hydrogen-powered heavy…
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The Aurora wasn’t even the coolest part
Colorful aurora dazzles the sky above Squamscott River in Newmarket, New Hampshire. Image: Austin DeSisto Not long after, the International Space Station, with seven members on board, began to rise from the southeast into the red aurora that loomed in that part of the sky. The crescent moon I observed earlier was nearly set, but…
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SpaceX reaches nearly 6,000 Starlink satellites on orbit following Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral
A Falcon 9 rocket streaks across the night sky over Florida as it lifts off on the Starlink 6-58 mission on May 12, 2024. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now SpaceX launched a batch of 23 Starlink satellites on its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The mission brings the total number of Starlink…
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In the race for space metals, companies hope to cash in
In April 2023, a satellite the size of a microwave launched to space. Its goal: to get ready to mine asteroids. While the mission, courtesy of a company called AstroForge, ran into problems, it’s part of a new wave of would-be asteroid miners hoping to cash in on cosmic resources. Potential applications of space-mined material…
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NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket
NASA is looking for ways to get rock samples back from Mars for less than the $11 billion the agency would need under its own plan, so last month, officials put out a call to industry to propose ideas. Boeing is the first company to release details about how it would attempt a Mars Sample…
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NOAA says “extreme” solar storm will persist through the weekend
After a night of stunning auroras across much of the United States and Europe on Friday, a severe geomagnetic storm is likely to continue through at least Sunday, forecasters said. The Space Weather Prediction Center at the US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Prediction Center observed that ‘Extreme’ G5 conditions were ongoing as of Saturday morning…