Archives June 2024

Just over a year after the first integrated flight test, SpaceX successfully launched the fourth…
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Space Coast FL (SPX) Jun 05, 2024

NASA officials want a new Mars sample return mission plan that is faster, costs less and isn’t as complex than one scrapped in April.

The space agency doesn’t want to wait until 2040 and spend $11 billion to return core samples being collected on Mars, which the recently scrapped plan would have required.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson in April canceled the lengthy mission plan, saying he

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After years of anticipation, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule has flown its first crew into space…
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Beijing (AFP) June 4, 2024

A Chinese probe carrying samples from the far side of the Moon started its journey back to Earth on Tuesday, the country’s space agency said – a world first and a major achievement for Beijing’s space programme.

The ascender module of the Chang’e-6 probe “lifted off from lunar surface” and entered a preset orbit around the Moon, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said.

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West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 04, 2024

To survive on other planets, water is, of course, critical. We need it to drink, sustain crops and even create rocket fuel.

But on spaceflights, checked luggage is exorbitantly expensive. Anything heavy, especially liquids like water, is bulky and costly to haul by rocket, even to our closest interplanetary neighbors. The best plan, then, is to find water at the spacecraft’s destination.

ESA’s experimental OPS-SAT CubeSat mission came to an end during the night of 22—23 May 2024 (CEST).

Beijing (AFP) June 2, 2024

China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe successfully landed Sunday on the far side of the Moon to collect samples, state media reported – the latest leap for Beijing’s decades-old space programme.

The Chang’e-6 set down in the immense South Pole-Aitken Basin, one of the largest known impact craters in the solar system, state news agency Xinhua said, citing the China National Space Administration.

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