Category: 2. Space
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Private flight with 2 Saudi astronauts returns from space station with Gulf of Mexico splashdown
In this frame grab from video broadcast by SpaceX, recovery crews lift and secure the SpaceX Dragon capsule after it splashed down into the Gulf of Mexico, just off the Florida Panhandle, late Tuesday, May 30, 2023. The private flight carrying two Saudi astronauts and other passengers returned to Earth after a nine-day trip to…
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New Software for Hunting Technosignatures From Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The Breakthrough Listen Investigation for Periodic Spectral Signals (BLIPSS) is using pioneering techniques to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) within the Milky Way. The team developed software based on a Fast Folding Algorithm (FFA), a search method that offers enhanced sensitivity to periodic sequences of narrow pulses. This approach is aimed at detecting repeating patterns…
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Webb Space Telescope Detects 6000-Mile Water Plume Jetting From Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
Artist’s impression of the Cassini spacecraft flying through plumes erupting from the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. These plumes are much like geysers and expel a combination of water vapor, ice grains, salts, methane, and other organic molecules. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Interaction between moon’s plumes and Saturn’s ring system explored with Webb Enceladus—a tiny, icy…
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There Were Lot Of People In Space On Tuesday
Keith’s note: On Tuesday I was on Bloomberg radio (audio) talking about China’s space program and global space efforts. With the arrival of Shenzhou-16 there are 6 people on Tiangong. Later in the day I was on CGTN (audio) talking about China’s ambitions including human missions to the Moon. With the AX-2 crew on ISS…
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NASA Had a Plan For Rescuing Space Shuttle Astronauts Using a Big Fabric Ball : ScienceAlert
For most of us, this would be a nightmare. Imagine being curled up inside a 90 centimeter (36 inch) fabric sphere with a small window and a small air tank while dangling from the Canadarm. As your tiny sphere shifts, you’d see Earth out your tiny window, then the Space Shuttle, damaged by some accident…
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Spain signs Artemis Accords – SpaceNews
WASHINGTON — Spain is the latest European nation to sign the Artemis Accords, a central element of a new American strategic framework for space diplomacy. In a May 30 ceremony in Madrid, Spanish government officials signed the Accords, which outline principles for safe and responsible space exploration. Spain is the 25th country to sign the…
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Search for distant atmosphere off to a rocky start
Search for distant atmosphere off to a rocky start Continue Reading News Source: www.nature.com
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A broadband thermal emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b
A broadband thermal emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b Continue Reading News Source: www.nature.com
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A Step Toward Human Hibernation On Deep Space Missions? Induction Of A torpor-like State With Ultrasound
Jake Sully Awakes From Hibernation in “Avatar” – Fox … Continue Reading News Source: astrobiology.com
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The Emergence of a Neutral Wind Region in the Orbital Plane of Symbiotic Binaries during Their Outbursts
Accretion of mass onto a white dwarf (WD) in a binary system can lead to stellar explosions. If a WD accretes from stellar wind of a distant evolved giant in a symbiotic binary, it can undergo occasional outbursts in which it brightens by several magnitudes, produces a low- and high-velocity mass outflow, and, in some…