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Fine food menus on the International Space Station
Food for astronauts on board the International Space Station is definitely not attractive, no matter the format in which it is consumed. Every food ration must insure the crew members get the right nutritional balance in order to deal...
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NASA reveals what it might be like to land Pluto
What would it be like to land on Pluto? NASA has just released a video, based on photos taken by the New Horizons spacecraft during its historic encounter with the dwarf planet. The frames show actual colour simulation of what you would...
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How the EU’s Copernicus space programme is starting to pay off
This week’s Business Planet come from Rotterdam. The city is buzzing with imaginative entrepreneurs keen to tap the enormous potential Europe’s Earth Observation space programme Copernicus offers. Copernicus The Copernicus programme is...
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One-billion star map of the Milky Way
It features more than 1.1 billion stars and is the largest map of its kind ever compiled. The fruit of three years of hard work by the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite, which has been scanning the heavens relentlessly, the catalog...
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ET ring back Russian telescope picks up mysterious radio signal
Is there anybody out there? The fundamental question is rebounding once again after a mysterious radio signal was picked up by a Russian telescope. The radio waves come from a star system 94 light-years away from Earth. Astronomers at...
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NASA’s latest launch – to bring back ‘scientific treasure’
NASA is counting down to their OSIRIS-REx mission (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer), aimed at bringing samples back from a near-Earth asteroid. NASA to Launch Asteroid-Sampling...
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How 3D-printers can take space exploration to the next level
Researchers at the European Space Agency are testing the next generation of 3D-printers to use in Space. Here, at the European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications at Didcot – about 50 miles west of London – scientists...
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How astronaut health studies help us Earthlings
Astronauts have an out of this world job. They see sunrise and sunset 16 times a day, and over the weeks and months in orbit their bodies change inside and out. They lose muscle mass and bone mass, and many aspects of their health are...
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'Boom, we have an answer!' - Gaia's revolution in astronomy
"Just like that, boom, we have an answer!" - the smile spreads across astronomer Frédéric Arenou 's face as he describes the latest data release from ESA satellite Gaia . It's fair to say that science has been waiting for centuries, or...
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Is there life out there? We head to 'Mars on Earth' to find out
The Rio Tinto river snakes through the Spanish countryside for 100 kilometres, a dark, blood-red stain of acid water and rusty-looking rocks that scientists love to study. Both ESA and NASA experts regularly spend weeks in the Rio Tinto,...
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Finding space on earth
A team of planetary geologists in Westen Australia are using latest the camera technology in the hunt for meteorites that fall to earth. The scientists are from Curtin University and the team leader is Phil Bland. The rather dramatic...
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United Arab Emirates to launch space mission to Mars
The United Arab Emirates is working to send a probe to orbit Mars. The UAE Space Agency has called its mission “Al Amal” Hope and has now introduced it to the public. Various events have been organised in Dubai to give residents an...
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Defunct Russian satellite breaks apart forcing ISS astronauts to shelter
Details on what caused the breakup of the Resurs-P1 Russian Earth observation satellite, which Russia declared non-operational in 2022, were not immediately available.
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Euclid telescope: ESA's 'dark universe' mission sends back stunning first images of distant galaxies
In newly released images from its Euclid telescope, the European Space Agency (ESA) has offered a glimpse of never-seen-before distant galaxies.
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NASA's Psyche mission: New spacecraft will visit a giant asteroid to tell us more about Earth
NASA's latest deep space mission will analyse a metal-rich asteroid to unlock a greater understanding of how rocky planets like our own were formed.
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One year of James Webb: Five things the space telescope has taught us since its first image
Exactly 12 months ago NASA released the first stunning image captured by the James Webb Telescope, which gave us a new understanding of the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang. Since then, it has helped us shed new light on the...
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Sweden inaugurates Arctic satellite launch site as space race heats up in Europe
"Europe has its foothold in space and will keep it," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
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UAE Hope probe reveals the mysteries of Mars
The Emirates Mars Mission has been a source of inspiration for young Arabs and is set to have a long-lasting impact on the economy.
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NASA's SWOT satellite will shed light on how climate change is impacting Earth's water
NASA launched the first global water monitoring satellite, SWOT into orbit in hopes of tracking climate change.
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Halifax space program encourages diverse youth to study the stars
A free Halifax-based space engineering initiative called ATLAS wants to encourage young people from diverse backgrounds to enter the space industry. The program was recently awarded with nearly half a million dollars in funding.
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Rocket Lab tried to catch a falling rocket with a helicopter to reuse it. It didn't work this time
A helicopter snagged a falling space rocket in an attempt to reuse it – but it ultimately dropped it in the ocean.
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More than just a 'Moon buggy': Californian startup Astrolab unveils its next generation space rover
If NASA adopts FLEX and its payload platform, it would become the first passenger-capable rover to ply the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in the 1970s.
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Canadian researchers await images from James Webb telescope
Canadian researchers are eagerly awaiting images from the James Webb Space Telescope and the potential of new space discoveries.
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The dawn of a new age: how 2021 changed our relationship with Space
In this Space Review we take a look at the major trends and developments in the world of Space exploration over the last 12 months.