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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
Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin Galactic and representatives of the associations arrived at the home of the winner, Kisha Shaf. PR photo, Virgin Galactic,

A resident of Antigua married to an Israeli and their daughter will fly into space after winning the Virgin Galactic lottery

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The raffles were conducted by the fundraising platform Omaze and Sir Richard Branson raised an expected $1.7 million in grants to support the Space for Humanity project to democratize space travel
Astroscale docking hook. Photo PR, ASTROSCALE

Astroscale's patent: like a tow hook - only for satellites:

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For the benefit of the satellite operators who want to keep their valuable assets - tens of thousands of satellites that are about to be launched in the next ten years - Astroscale is launching a patent that will allow the safe disposal of satellites that are out of use
lunar base Illustration: depositphotos.com

NASA has issued a call for the establishment of a nuclear power plant on the moon

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Battelle Energy Alliance and NASA are seeking industry partners to design a nuclear power system for lunar applications
space debris Illustration: depositphotos.com

Russia conducted an anti-satellite weapon test in which a downed satellite exploded and the resulting debris threatens the international and Chinese space stations

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Russia conducted an anti-satellite weapon experiment in which an old Russian satellite exploded without prior warning to those responsible for the space sector in the Western armies, the Cosmos 1408 satellite was launched back in 1982 during the Soviet Union
The crew of NS-18. Pictured from left to right: Dr. Chris Boschwiesen, William Shatner, Audrey Powers and Glenn de Vries. Public relations photo, Blue Origin

Captain Kirk - ninety-year-old William Shatner flew into space and broke the record for the oldest person in space

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However, this is a flight that lasted just a few minutes in the second manned suborbital flight of the New Shepherd spacecraft of the Blue Origin company owned by Jeff Bezos
ELSA-d space cleaning satellite. Astroscale PR photo

The world's first space cleaning satellite, Astroscale's ELSA-d successfully demonstrated magnetic attachment to a malfunctioning satellite

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ELSA-d, which was successfully launched into space during March 2021, consisted of two satellites: a service satellite (~ 175 kg) and a 'client' satellite (~ 17 kg) that simulates space debris, which were launched side by side. The service satellite was developed to safely remove pieces of space debris from orbit and is equipped with technologies that allow it to locate and connect safely to objects moving in space through a magnetic docking mechanism.
Richard Branson and the passengers who accompanied him on the first suborbital flight. PR photo, Virgin Galactic

Interstellar contamination | angle

In recent weeks, space tourism has become a reality for two of the world's richest men. Is it an expensive but harmless amusement, or another blow to the earth's battered atmosphere? We went out to check
A model of living on the moon - EBIOS. PR photo, Dassault Systèmes

Interstellar Lab unveils "BioPod" - a living simulator on the Moon and Mars

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The system created with Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform simulates a self-sustaining food production system, furthering Interstellar Lab's mission to produce and recycle food, water, and air to support sustainable life on Earth, the Moon, and Mars
The Blue Origin spacecraft lands safely after its first successful launch with astronauts including CEO Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, and two astronauts. Screenshot

Successful launch and landing of Jeff Bezos' capsule (video)

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16:20 The launcher successfully landed on its feet with the help of an auxiliary engine. 16:18 The spacecraft activated parachutes 16:12 The spacecraft was successfully launched
Richard Branson, founder and CEO of Virgin Galactic hovers in the passenger compartment of the suborbital spaceship SpaceShip2 on the Unity 22 mission on July 11, 2021. PR photo, Virgin Galactic

The billionaire space race is a publicity stunt but may help promote the space economy

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This is according to an analysis by PITCHBOOK. According to the analysts, before flying humans into space, advanced uses of satellites should be exhausted and the problem of space debris should be addressed, but the budget for this may be reached thanks to these gimmicks.
Former astronaut Chris Hadfield bestows space wings on Sir Richard Branson after the successful flight to the edge of space. Screenshot from the Virgin Galactic YouTube channel.

Richard Branson beat Jeff Bezos in the space race * took off with 5 others to give way

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The spaceship or rather the Spaceship 2 rocket plane took off for the mission known as Unity 22 from the Virgin Galactic Space Center in New Mexico on a carrier plane and when they reached the desired altitude they activated the rocket engines and rose to a height of about ninety kilometers where the passengers saw the curvature of the Earth and floated in low gravity
Cosmos 1 solar sail. Image: Courtesy of the developers

A small satellite with a solar sail could catch the next interstellar object to pass

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It's too late for Umuamoa, but we can be ready for the next strange interstellar visitor if we want to. It is possible to design and build a spacecraft that will encounter such an object at short notice
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