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The SLS launcher with the Artemis 1 spacecraft on it was due to launch at the original launch on August 29, 2022. The launch was delayed due to a hydrogen leak from one of the engines. Photo PR, NASA

Artemis 1 launch canceled again due to hydrogen leak (live broadcast)

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After the launch was postponed due to a malfunction in one of the engines, NASA engineers made a series of repairs * Duration of the launch window: XNUMX hours
The artist's impression of Orion on the moon. NASA/Liam Ynollis

Artemis 1: The maiden flight was postponed to Saturday - this is what needs to be done properly

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The goal of Project Artemis, named after the sister of Apollo and daughter of Zeus in ancient Greek mythology, is to create a long-term human presence on our closest celestial neighbor
The Israel Space Agency in the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology publishes a unique illustration by Israeli cartoonist and illustrator Uri Fink, showing for the first time the #LunaTwins of the Artemis-I mission waiting together with NASA's Commander Monikin for liftoff!

The Artemis 1 launch was delayed due to a fuel leak from one of the engines

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Update: A malfunction in one of the engines caused the countdown to stop. Even if the fault is fixed, it is necessary to cool all four engines at the same time. If the launch does not take place today, the next launch window - on Friday evening
A NASA poster for the launch of the Artemis 1 spacecraft on the SLS rocket. Image: NASA

NASA's Artemis 1 mission will be launched on Monday at 15:33 - what to expect and why it is important

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The mission, whose launch is scheduled for Monday, August 29, 2022, is a test flight - without a crew - of the launch system into space and the Orion crew compartment. NASA hopes it will pave the way for routine exploration of space beyond Earth's orbit
A shower of asteroid fragments on Earth. Image: depositphotos.com

A large impact crater under the North Atlantic Ocean reveals - the deadly asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was not alone

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A large impact crater under the North Atlantic Ocean reveals - the deadly asteroid was not alone
The Zohar and Helga mannequins aboard Artemis 1 are planned to orbit the Moon outside the Earth's radiation belt. Photo: NASA

Israeli development - at the heart of the Artemis 1 mission: mannequins on which the AstroRad vest that protects against radiation will be tested

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A joint experiment by the Israeli Space Agency with its German counterpart will test the degree of protection the suit provides against radiation in space. If the experiment is successful, there is a high chance that the technology will become standard in future deep space missions to the Moon and Mars
Rendering of 13 candidate landing zones for Artemis III. Each area is about 15 by 15 kilometers. A landing site is a location within those areas with a radius of about 100 meters. Credit: NASA

NASA identifies sites on the moon for the next US manned landing

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NASA will discuss the formation of the final sites with the scientific community and with SpaceX whose landing vehicle, Starship is manufactured according to its capabilities
Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev are pictured during a spacewalk on April 28, 2022, monitoring the station's new European robotic arm, which they also worked on during the 18/8 spacewalk that was interrupted by a malfunction in Artemyev's space suit

The spacewalk was stopped. The cosmonaut was called back to the space station

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Expedition 67 commander Oleg Artemyev received an order from the control center in Moscow to return to the station as soon as possible due to a malfunction in his space suit's battery
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
Artist's impression of ESA's Envision mission to Venus. Credit: Credit: ESA/VR2Planets/Damia Bouic

The Envision mission will not have much fuel, so it is going to perform an atmospheric braking on Venus

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The project's research director on behalf of the European Space Agency: "The flight on Ariane 6 will not allow all the extra propellant that would be necessary to lower the orbit. Instead we will slow ourselves down by making repeated passes through the upper atmosphere of Venus, lowering to 130 km from the face of the planet"
The Zvezda module, at the bottom left of this image, is one of six Russian segments of the International Space Station and houses the engines used to keep the station in orbit. Photo: NASA

Russia's withdrawal from the space station could lead to its early destruction and the severing of another Russian connection with the West

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Yuri Borisov, the new head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said in a meeting with Vladimir Putin on July 26, 2022 that future efforts will focus on a new Russian space station.
Fission power generation systems—seen in this concept illustration—could provide reliable power for lunar exploration aboard Artemis. Credit: NASA

Nuclear energy on the moon: NASA chooses a design idea for a system to produce electricity by fission

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NASA and the US Department of Energy are funding the development of initial design concepts for a 40 kW FSP system that is planned to operate for at least ten years in the lunar environment
The MARS INSIGH spacecraft that studies the geology of Mars. Photo: depositphotos.com

Earthquakes on Mars

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First summary of the findings of the MARS INSIGHT spacecraft on Mars
NASA astronauts Bob Hines and Kjell Lindgren greet "Rosie the Rocketeer" inside the Boeing Starliner spacecraft shortly after opening its hatch.

After many delays - an experiment, so far unmanned for Boeing's Starliner spacecraft

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The spacecraft, which was launched on May 19, 2022, is now attached to the International Space Station. It is "manned" with a dummy whose purpose is to maintain the spacecraft's center of gravity to simulate a manned flight
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
SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft approaches docking at the space station. Illustration: depositphotos.com

SpaceX stops producing "Team Dragon" capsules and soon also cargo spaceships and will reuse the existing fleet

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According to SpaceX President Gavin Shotwell, the company has already stopped production of Crew Dragon capsules after building its fourth spacecraft scheduled for an April 19, 2022 launch for NASA to the space station.
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
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
An artist's impression of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the critical Alfvén surface, which marks the end of the Sun's atmosphere and the beginning of the solar wind. The entry of the Parker Solar Probe into this region in April 2021 means that the spacecraft "touched the sun" for the first time. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ben Smith

The Parker Solar Probe flies through the Sun's outer atmosphere for the first time

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It is very difficult to squeeze the sun but the reward for the risk is a lot of knowledge about the planet that affects our lives
Lucy will study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids - thought to be "fossils of planet formation". Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA's Lucy in cruise mode - the problematic solar array is open between 75% and 95%

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Lucy was launched on October 17, 2021 on its mission to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids to gain new insights into the formation of the Solar System 4.5 billion years ago
Jupiter's Great Red Spot as captured by Juno's camera lens. Its size is the size of the earth

How deep is the most famous spot in the solar system

Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science and their partners on NASA's Juno space mission have revealed a series of new findings about the planet Jupiter and found a surprising similarity to Earth
Mars Rover Mars Day 193 - Navigation Camera: NASA's Mars Rover Ingenuity captured this image using its navigation camera on its 13th flyby on September 5, 2021 (Mars Day 193 of the Perspirans rover mission) at local solar time 12: 06:30.

NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter: Flying on Mars is getting more and more difficult

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The rotors of the first helicopter to fly on another planet were filled with dust, preventing them from turning
The drilling was carried out on a dedicated platform with an inclination of seven degrees to simulate collection of a sample in a non-vertical position. The drill obtained the sample in a spherical shape with a diameter of about XNUMX cm. Credit: Thales Alenia Space

First success of drilling in hard soil for the launch of the Rosalind Franklin vehicle to Mars in 2022

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The European Space Agency conducted experiments on a twin vehicle to Rosalind Franklin, the vehicle that will fly to Mars as part of the ExoMars 2022 project - the drill managed to reach a depth of 1.7 meters * much deeper than any other Mars rover has ever attempted * in the hope that the fate of Rosalind Franklin will be better than that of the robot Shifriali that crashed as part of the Exo Mars mission in 2016
The landing of the SpaceX crew Dragon spacecraft on the first all-civilian mission. Screenshot

The spaceship with the four civilian astronauts landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean

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The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft entered the atmosphere and autonomously deployed the parachutes. The four passengers intended the flight to collect donations for childhood cancer research
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