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Asteroid 2024 YR4 Won't Collide With Moon In 2032: NASA
Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered in late 2024 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System station in Chile, a NASA-funded project.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Confirms Asteroid 2024 YR4 Will Not Strike the Moon
New Webb observations refined asteroid 2024 YR4’s orbit, showing it will safely pass about 21,200 km from the Moon in December 2032. The earlier 4.3% impact probability has now been eliminated.
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ISS Crew Prepares to Send Japan’s HTV-X1 Cargo Spacecraft Back to Earth After Four Months
The Expedition 74 crew aboard the International Space Station is preparing to release Japan’s HTV-X1 cargo spacecraft after four months docked. Using Canadarm2, the vehicle will detach, conduct additional experiments in orbit, and later deorbit, while astronauts continue biology and AI research onboard.
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India Taps Startups For 'Bodyguard Satellites' Amid Space Security Threats: Report
India's security agencies have asked private startups to develop so-called bodyguard satellites as the country accelerates efforts to protect space assets at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions, according to people familiar with the matter.
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NASA’s Carruthers Observatory Begins Mission to Study Earth’s Hydrogen Halo
NASA’s Carruthers Observatory has begun its two-year science mission to study Earth’s hydrogen-rich exosphere from a halo orbit at Sun–Earth L1. Equipped with ultraviolet cameras, the small satellite will continuously image the faint geocorona, tracking how solar storms and fast solar wind streams cause the upper atmosphere to expand, contrac...
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NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Study Space Weather Between Earth and Mars
NASA’s ESCAPADE mission will send two identical orbiters to Mars to study how solar wind and space weather strip away the planet’s atmosphere. Launching in 2025 and arriving in 2027, the twin spacecraft will measure solar wind conditions and Mars’s atmospheric response simultaneously, helping scientists understand how the Red Planet lost its ...
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Supercomputer Study Finds 97,000 Stable Orbits Between Earth and Moon
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory simulated one million potential satellite orbits between Earth and the Moon to assess long-term stability. Fewer than 10% remained stable over six years, highlighting the challenges of operating in cislunar space. Yet the results identified roughly 97,000 viable orbits, offering valuable options ...
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Uninterrupted Solar Power, Free Cooling: India's Data Centres May Soon Go Orbital
This year, Indian start-ups are preparing to try. On a rocket that has never reached orbit before, Chennai-based Agnikul Cosmos is attempting a radical first, transforming the last stage of its Agnibaan rocket into a functioning data centre in space.
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NASA Shares Photo Of Dazzling Green Auroras Captured From Space Station
According to NASA, auroras are produced when charged particles from the Sun collide with Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere.
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Space, Trade And A New Orbit: US-India Ties Lift Off With Commercial Space Push
The first US trade delegation to India after the announcement of the US-India trade deal has signalled a decisive shift in bilateral engagement, with commercial space collaboration emerging as a central pillar of the renewed partnership.
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 Won't Collide With Moon In 2032: NASA
Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered in late 2024 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System station in Chile, a NASA-funded project.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Confirms Asteroid 2024 YR4 Will Not Strike the Moon
New Webb observations refined asteroid 2024 YR4’s orbit, showing it will safely pass about 21,200 km from the Moon in December 2032. The earlier 4.3% impact probability has now been eliminated.
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ISS Crew Prepares to Send Japan’s HTV-X1 Cargo Spacecraft Back to Earth After Four Months
The Expedition 74 crew aboard the International Space Station is preparing to release Japan’s HTV-X1 cargo spacecraft after four months docked. Using Canadarm2, the vehicle will detach, conduct additional experiments in orbit, and later deorbit, while astronauts continue biology and AI research onboard.
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India Taps Startups For 'Bodyguard Satellites' Amid Space Security Threats: Report
India's security agencies have asked private startups to develop so-called bodyguard satellites as the country accelerates efforts to protect space assets at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions, according to people familiar with the matter.
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NASA’s Carruthers Observatory Begins Mission to Study Earth’s Hydrogen Halo
NASA’s Carruthers Observatory has begun its two-year science mission to study Earth’s hydrogen-rich exosphere from a halo orbit at Sun–Earth L1. Equipped with ultraviolet cameras, the small satellite will continuously image the faint geocorona, tracking how solar storms and fast solar wind streams cause the upper atmosphere to expand, contrac...
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NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Study Space Weather Between Earth and Mars
NASA’s ESCAPADE mission will send two identical orbiters to Mars to study how solar wind and space weather strip away the planet’s atmosphere. Launching in 2025 and arriving in 2027, the twin spacecraft will measure solar wind conditions and Mars’s atmospheric response simultaneously, helping scientists understand how the Red Planet lost its ...
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Supercomputer Study Finds 97,000 Stable Orbits Between Earth and Moon
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory simulated one million potential satellite orbits between Earth and the Moon to assess long-term stability. Fewer than 10% remained stable over six years, highlighting the challenges of operating in cislunar space. Yet the results identified roughly 97,000 viable orbits, offering valuable options ...
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Uninterrupted Solar Power, Free Cooling: India's Data Centres May Soon Go Orbital
This year, Indian start-ups are preparing to try. On a rocket that has never reached orbit before, Chennai-based Agnikul Cosmos is attempting a radical first, transforming the last stage of its Agnibaan rocket into a functioning data centre in space.
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NASA Shares Photo Of Dazzling Green Auroras Captured From Space Station
According to NASA, auroras are produced when charged particles from the Sun collide with Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere.
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Space, Trade And A New Orbit: US-India Ties Lift Off With Commercial Space Push
The first US trade delegation to India after the announcement of the US-India trade deal has signalled a decisive shift in bilateral engagement, with commercial space collaboration emerging as a central pillar of the renewed partnership.
