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Aug 8, 2023

A mother-daughter duo will join an 80-year-old Olympian on Virgin Galactic’s first space tourism flight on Thursday. Here’s how to watch live

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The mission, named Galactic 2, is the company’s first flight with paying customers on board. Tickets had been on sale for as much as $450,000.

Aug 8, 2023

Chandrayaan-3: Historic India Moon mission sends new photos of lunar surface

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If Chandrayaan-3 succeeds, India will be the first country to land near the Moon’s little-explored south pole.

Aug 7, 2023

Webb telescope captures iconic Ring Nebula in unprecedented detail

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(CNN) — Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope for a fresh perspective of an iconic celestial favorite called the Ring Nebula.

The new image captures never-before-seen details within the colorful nebula, located in the Lyra constellation about 2,600 light-years from Earth.

The structure of the Ring Nebula can be glimpsed through amateur telescopes and has been observed and studied for years.

Aug 7, 2023

D-Wave and Davidson Technologies Introduce New Innovations to Advance National Defense Efforts

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Collaboration yields new solutions that tackle complex challenges in defense and aerospace sectors

Companies to showcase live demonstration of quantum-hybrid application at Space & Missile Defense Symposium

BURNABY, British Columbia, PALO ALTO, Calif. & HUNTSVILLE, Ala., August 7, 2023 —(BUSINESS WIRE)— D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, and Davidson Technologies, Inc., a technology services company that provides innovative engineering, technical and management solutions for the Department of Defense, aerospace and commercial customers, today announced progress in their collaboration to create solutions that advance national defense efforts. In support of the companies’ joint presence at this week’s Space and Missile Defense Symposium, D-Wave and Davidson Technologies revealed that together they have built two applications, focused on interceptor assignment and optimized radar scheduling.

Aug 7, 2023

Artemis 1 cubesat finishes mission after detecting water and ice on the moon

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The mission of an ice-hunting cubesat is officially at an end.

NASA officials announced Thursday (Aug. 3) that the agency had ceased operations earlier this year on its Artemis 1 moon mission ride-along cubesat, called LunaH-Map.

Aug 7, 2023

SpaceX launch sets turnaround record from Cape Canaveral

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SpaceX shot up a rocket Sunday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station that set a record for the company’s quickest turnaround ever from a single launch pad.

Aug 7, 2023

China will now use robots to maintain its FAST telescope

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The machines have been tested and found more than competent.

China will soon allow intelligent robotic systems and platforms to provide maintenance services for the nation’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), dubbed as the ‘China Sky Eye’ and known as the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, the China Media Group (CMG)

The news was reported by CGTN after the robotic systems passed several tests ensuring they were ready for this lofty task.

Aug 6, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope spies giant cosmic question mark in deep space (photo)

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The James Webb Space Telescope continues to provide answers about the earliest days of the universe, but it’s also discovering more questions.

Question marks, to be precise. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) team at the European Space Agency (ESA) released an image on Wednesday (June 26) offering the most detailed look yet at two actively forming young stars located 1,470 light-years from Earth in the Vela Constellation. In the image, the stars, named Herbig-Haro 46/47, are surrounded by a disk of material that “feeds” the stars as they grow for millions of years.

Aug 6, 2023

Indian lunar landing mission enters moon’s orbit

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India’s latest space mission entered the moon’s orbit on Saturday ahead of the country’s second attempted lunar landing, as its cut-price space program seeks to reach new heights.

The world’s most populous nation has a comparatively low-budget aerospace program that is rapidly closing in on the milestones set by global space powers.

Only Russia, the United States and China have previously achieved a controlled landing on the .

Aug 6, 2023

Planet Vulcan: The Lost 19th Century World Einstein “Erased” From Our Solar System

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In 1,846, astronomer and mathematician Urbain Le Verrier sat down and attempted to locate a planet that had never been seen before by humans. Uranus (grow up) had been moving in unexpected ways, as predicted by the Newtonian theory of gravity.

Though the discrepancies were small, there was a difference between the observed orbit of Uranus and the way Newtonian physics predicted its orbit to be. In July, Le Verrier proposed that the difference could be explained by another planet beyond Uranus, and made predictions as to the orbit of this previously unknown body.

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