(CNN) Some 3,000 light years away from Earth, researchers believe they have found an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star.
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International Space Station: an orbiting home and lab for two decades - HoustonChronicle.com
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — When astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley boarded the International Space Station Sunday, they became the latest chapter in a grand, two-decade endeavor that has welcomed 240 people from 19 countries as an orbiting home and science lab. They are also much needed hands on deck, joining a small crew.
“We’re down to a single American astronaut on the station,” Douglas Loverro, the former NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, told the NASA Advisory Council prior to his unexpected resignation on May 18 . “That is not a condition we like to be in.”
SpaceX nearing 500 Starlink satellites now in orbit - CNET
The Falcon 9 first stage successfully landed on a droneship in the Atlantic. It was the fifth time this individual rocket has done so, making it the current flag-bearer for launch longevity.
Bluegrass Skies: The orbit of Mercury | Spectrum | state-journal.com
Mercury as seen by the MESSENGER spacecraft. (Image courtesy NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/ Carnegie Institute of Washington)
For months we've been able to enjoy bright Venus in the western sky after sunset. Venus is now out of view as It has moved in between us and the Sun, but we are graced with the other interior planet this week, Mercury.
Mercury won't stick around for as long as Venus though, it will move between the Earth and the sun on June 30. Mercury's stay is so brief because of its short orbital period. It takes the Earth 365 days to go around the sun, while it takes Mercury only 88 days.
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Virgin Orbit moving ahead with U.K. launch plans - SpaceNews.com
WASHINGTON — Virgin Orbit and the British government are continuing efforts to begin flights of the company's air-launch system from an English airport by early 2022 despite challenges on both sides of the Atlantic.
Virgin Orbit and the U.K. Space Agency, along with Spaceport Cornwall, held an online suppliers conference June 4 to provide an update about the company's plans to operate from the southwestern England spaceport, also known as Cornwall Airport Newquay, using its LauncherOne rocket and modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft.
Air Force Is Looking Beyond Traditional Orbits To Get An Upper Hand In Space - The Drive
The Air Force is running an internal competition to pick a new project to explore potential military activities in new areas of space. In the running are proposed efforts to examine the potential uses of very low orbits around the Earth, as well as operations in cislunar space between the Earth and the Moon where there are growing concerns about future competition with potential adversaries, especially China .
Air Force Colonel Eric Felt, head of the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate, revealed the contest during an online event that Space News hosted on June 5, 2020. Felt said that four separate teams within his directorate had crafted possible projects and that he could pick a winner in July. The winning pitch will get funding in order to carry out a demonstration.
Fee could help clear space junk in Earth's crowded lower orbit | 9news.com
Those will join the other 2000 satellites already cruising around in a part of space called lower earth orbit (LEO), which is about 150 to 2000 kilometres (roughly 93 to 1242 miles) above the earth, just above the atmosphere.
That zone is also the only part of space currently inhabited by humans, and has an estimated 20,000 bits of space junk; old dead satellites, pieces that break off of satellites, along with pieces of rockets that pass through or deliver satellites to LEO.
AFRL Targets Space Ops In New Orbits « Breaking Defense - Defense industry news, analysis
WASHINGTON: The Air Force Research Laboratory’s next big space project will focus on “nontraditional orbits,” says the lab’s head of the Space Vehicles Directorate Col. Eric Felt, such as the area near the Moon and very low orbits where satellites need constant boosting to keep from plummeting back to Earth.
“The best payoff is coming from things that we’re not currently doing in space today,” Felt said of AFRL’s technology development programs for the Space Force.
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