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Illustration of Lunar IceCube in orbit, exploring the ice on the moon. Credit: Morehead State University

The tiny satellite revolution is coming to the moon

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NASA's Lunar IceCube -- Cubesat for observing the moon ready for Artemis 1 launch
This artist impression shows an aerial view of the liftoff of a NASA Space Launch System rocket. This Block 1 crew configuration of the rocket will send the first three Artemis missions to the moon. Credit: NASA/MSFC

Final preparations for the launch of the Artemis 1 SLS lunar launcher for launch at the end of the month

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NASA's target launch date is now August 29th at 08:33 EST in a two-hour time window. If there is a successful launch on August 29th the mission will last about 42 days - until October 10th
A military satellite attacks another satellite with a laser. In the first step, the Russians build a laser that will blind satellites from the ground. Image: depositphotos.com

The Russians are building a laser that blinds satellites - an expert explains the technology

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If the Russian government is able to build the laser, it will be able to protect a large part of the country from observation by satellites with optical sensors. The technology also paves the way for the more threatening possibility of laser weapons that can permanently disable satellites
The Chinese space station Tiangong. The rockets that bring the components to it enter back into the atmosphere without control. Image: depositphotos.com

An uncontrolled Chinese launcher crashed in the Indian Ocean on Saturday

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The upper stage of the Long March 5 launcher that uploaded a module to the Chinese space station Tiangong about a week ago crashed. These launchers lack a control system for re-entry into the atmosphere
An artist's impression of what Triton, Neptune's largest moon, might look like from a great height above its surface. The distant Sun appears at the top left and Neptune's blue crescent at right of center. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada.

China's nuclear mission to Neptune-Rahab

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In addition to its intriguing internal structure (and strange phenomena like diamond rain!), scientists believe that Neptune played an important role in the formation of the solar system and that its composition includes large amounts of gas that was part of the prestellar nebula from which the solar system formed
Two maps of New York show how vegetation is suited to cooler areas by temperature. Comparing maps of New York's vegetation and temperature shows the cooling effect of parks and neighborhoods with more trees. NASA/USGS Landsat

Landsat 50 years old: how satellites revolutionized the way we see - and protect - the natural world

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On July 23, 1972, the Landsat satellite was launched, which changed our attitude to the environment. Since then the satellites have been perfected and now NASA is developing the Landsat 10 satellite, which will be able to reveal more details about the destruction of the Earth by humanity
satellite. Image: depositphotos.com

Stixpay's satellite connectivity technology was demonstrated for the first time with the European and British space agencies and the ONEWEB company

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The project, which incorporates OneWeb low-orbit satellites, is expected to accelerate advanced connectivity in aircraft and motorized applications on land and sea
The International Space Station. Photo: depositphotos.com

The Russian space agency intends to leave the International Space Station

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However, no official announcement has yet been made, and even then, the Russians are obliged to give a year's notice in advance
A banner produced on the occasion of 20 consecutive years of manning the International Space Station in 2018. Photo: NASA

Power blocs in space: The future of international cooperation in space is splitting along lines of power on Earth

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An expert in space law and international relations says that even the entry of commercial companies will not solve the problem because they are subject to the laws of the country in which they are registered
Eitan Stiva in the Coppola Observation Module on the International Space Station

The landing of AX-1 and Ethan Stiva: The Dragon is on its way to land around 20:00

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Monday night there will be two broadcasts at 01:30 from the transmitter of the departure from the space station to the Dragon spacecraft, 03:30 the disconnection of the Dragon. The article also includes videos taken during the mission
Anti-satellite weapon. Illustration: shutterstock

The US will stop testing anti-satellite weapons and demand that this become an international norm; China: developing systems for towing satellites

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US Vice President Kamala Harris announced this in a review before the Space Guard; more than 1,600 pieces are floating in space since the Russian test about six months ago, over 2,400 pieces are still floating 15 years after the Chinese test; Russia is setting conditions indirectly related to the war in Ukraine
David Greenberg conducts the radio amateur connection operation between the students of space majors from all over the country who gathered at the Herzliya Science Center and Eitan Stiva at the space station. 14/4/2022. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

First for the site of the scientist: the Dokifat 3 satellite suddenly returned to operation and broadcasting after two years

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According to David Greenberg, a satellite communications instructor at the Herzliya Science Center, the listening was accidental but was made possible by the fact that Dokifat 3 transmits in the same frequency range as the terrestrial satellites. Now the students of the science center, whose class before them launched it, are trying to understand what happened
An infographic showing the space station planned by the Axiom company. PR photo

Ax-1: Why the private mission to the International Space Station is a game changer, and details about the space station Axium is seeking to build

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Members of the AX-1 mission team in the "wet" rehearsal before the launch. Photo: SpaceX

Successful launch of the Dragon spacecraft team on mission AX-1 including the Israeli Eitan Stiva (updates, photo gallery and broadcast recordings)

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solar flares. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Predicting solar storms days in advance using artificial intelligence

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A study by researchers from Ariel University published in the Astrophysical Journal used deep learning to analyze the radiation data from communication satellites that NASA has been collecting since the 96s and succeeded with the help of machine learning in predicting solar storms up to XNUMX hours before they began to affect Earth * The research was done with the support of an agency Israeli space
Ramon Space's space storage system. Illustration: Ofer Shapir

Ramon Space announces a storage system resistant to the conditions of space - contains a "virtual radiation shield"

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In an interview with the Hidan site, the company's CEO Avi Shabtai explains that the amount of data collected by satellites is enormous and requires smart storage to filter the data that has come down to earth and send only the relevant data when the transmission window to the ground is short 
Soyuz launcher on the launch pad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Russia voluntarily disengages from the space programs, including the private ones

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The Russian space agency Roscosmos then dropped the launch from a launcher carrying satellites for the ONEWEB project as a continuation of punitive measures against the West in the field of space
A Soyuz spacecraft is approaching the space station. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The head of the Russian space agency threatens: we will stop providing stabilization services to the International Space Station "from our side it will fall on the USA or Europe"

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Director of Roscosmos Dimitri Rogozin referred to the DMS-R facility used to navigate the station, although it was designed by the European Space Agency and integrated into the Russian component of the Zavezda space station * Also, the Progress cargo spaceships occasionally provide station orbit raising services * Elon Musk suggested that the SpaceX cargo spaceships perform the track repairs in place of the ruins
ESA's Laser Ranging Station in Tenerife aims its green laser at the sky. Credit: ESA

A laser observation station will make it possible to identify dangers of satellite collisions and space debris

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The European Space Agency's station in Tenerife is a technology testing facility and an essential first step in making waste reduction widely accessible to all players in space who have an impact on the future of our space environment * It will be able to track satellites even in the sky today
Sergey Kryklav in an official photo of the Russian Space Agency

Buried in space - the story of the cosmonaut who was abandoned in space

In 1991, cosmonaut Sergey Krikalev made one of the most difficult decisions of his life: to stay on the Soviet space station indefinitely. He did this even though he knew that the country that sent him into space had disintegrated, and there was no one to replace him
DONITZA PR Illustration of the rendezvous in space between the refueling station (the rectangular box above) and the Astroscale Lexi satellite (the gold cube with the wings). "Astroscale/Obitpub".

'Gas stations in orbit' will refuel Astroscale's satellite service satellites in space

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LEXI is the world's first pre-designed satellite with space refueling capabilities. According to the initial agreement between Astroscale and OrbitFab, the spacecraft refueling station will supply Astroscale's planned fleet of satellites with approximately 1000 kg of Xenon, thus significantly increasing the scope of the satellites' activity and their reach.
JPSS mission. Image: NASA

In 2022, NASA will launch four new space missions to explore the Earth

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The tasks are TROPICS, EMIT, JPSS and SWOT. Each of them offers something unique and adds a new way to understand and protect our home
A rendering of the new spacesuit that NASA is designing for the Artemis astronauts. The suit is called the xEMU, or Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit. Credit: NASA

There is enough oxygen on the moon's surface to support billions of people living there

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Current estimates indicate that the upper ten meters of the Moon's surface contain enough elemental oxygen to create enough O2 for every person on Earth for the next hundred thousand years - more than enough to settle on the Moon!
The space station was photographed from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavor during the spacecraft's exit from it for its return to Earth on November 8, 2021. Credit: NASA's Johnson Center

The space station had to change course again to avoid space debris

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The bone in question was a piece of debris created during the breakdown of bone 23106 (Pegasus R/B). This is the upper stage of a Pegasus type launcher, which was launched on May 19, 1994 and broke up on June 3, 1996
Stephen Attenborough, Chief Marketing Officer, Virgin Galactic. From a digital conference of the JUNIPER company

"The great gift of space flights is the opportunity to observe the Earth from the outside and see how fragile it is"

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This is what Stephen Attenborough, Chief Customer Officer at Virgin Galactic says during a virtual conference held by the Juniper company. Enborough's talk was broadcast from Virgin Galactic's Astronaut Office in London
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