NASA’s first Space Launch System moon rocket is set roll out to its launch pad early Monday at the Kennedy Space Center for another attempt later this month to fully load it with super-cold propellants, the culmination of a countdown rehearsal officials aim to complete before moving forward with launch later this summer. The towering …
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NASA’s Lunar Flashlight spacecraft. Credit: NASA NASA’s Lunar Flashlight — a small spacecraft to measure water ice in dark craters near the moon’s poles — will now launch as a piggyback payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket late this year after delays caused it to miss a ride on the agency’s Artemis 1 mission. …
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A Long March 2F rocket lifts off with the Shenzhou 14 mission at 10:44 p.m. EDT Saturday (0244 GMT Sunday). Credit: CASC China’s Shenzhou 14 spacecraft glided to an automated docking at the Tiangong space station Sunday, hours after launching with three astronauts to begin a six-month mission that will see the outpost triple in …
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Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard rocket is set to propel six more people to an altitude of more than 60 miles over West Texas Saturday, including the first Mexican-born woman to fly to space. The commercial launch will be the fifth Blue Origin flight to carry people to suborbital space, following the company’s first human …
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A Chinese Long March 2F rocket with the Shenzhou 14 spacecraft rolled to the launch pad at the Jiuquan space center May 29. Credit: CASC Three Chinese military pilots are ready for launch Saturday on a Long March 2F rocket to begin a six-month expedition to help expand China’s space station in low Earth orbit, …
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News briefs for the week take a look at the return of Automate to Detroit after 23 years in Chicago and the celebratory homecoming event going on there from 6 to 9 June. Automate returns…big time! 6-9 June 2022 (Detroit) Bing, bang, boom! All in a row, the big boys of robot/automation events, Hannover Messe, …
Welcome Reception. Credits: Wise Owl Multimedia The 39th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) took place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia (USA) and online May 23-27. ICRA 2022 brought together the world’s top researchers and companies to share ideas and advances in the fields of robotics and automation. …
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NASA TV (English) Roscosmos Webcast (Russian) Russia’s Progress MS-20 cargo freighter is set for launch Friday on a fast-track, three-and-a-half hour rendezvous with the International Space Station to deliver around three tons of fuel, food, and supplies for the lab’s seven-person crew. The Progress supply ship is set for liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in …
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A Long March 2C rocket lifts off with nine small satellites to support Geely’s self-driving cars. Credit: CASC China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group launched the first nine satellites of a planned constellation of 240 spacecraft Thursday, starting the deployment phase of a project intended to provide navigation and inter-vehicle communications for autonomous cars. The nine …
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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION An artist’s illustration of two suited crew members working on the lunar surface. The one in the foreground lifts a rock to examine it while the other photographs the collection site in the background. Credit: NASA Next-generation spacesuits, needed by astronauts aboard the International Space Station and by …
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