Spaaaaace

Yeah, someone should look at the investing habits of all the administrators who had knowledge of this spying and on upwards in their chain of command.

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Due to Precision Launch, NASA Says Webb Space Telescope’s Fuel Likely To Last Way More Than 10 Years

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Almost there

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You wood not believe what a Japanese logging company and university want to use to build a small satellite

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LignoSat could be the first wooden satellite to make it into space, but it must act quickly. A Scandinavian cubesat made of plywood called WISA Woodsat is scheduled to go up during the first half of 2022.
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First satellite made out of wood, but not the first time to use wooden components in spacecraft - the Block II Ranger probes in the 1960ies had balsa impact limiters, and apparently the film return capsules on early Chinese spy satellites had ablative heat shields made of oak.

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Has the sustainability trend infiltrated the space industry?

They say that like sustainability is a bad thing? :thinking:

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nice

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1ymvbd

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Robotic arm on China’s space station does a demo, swings out 20 degrees and back while holding cargo ship

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NASA confirms International Space Station is to keep orbiting through 2030

While scientists celebrated the successful launch and ongoing deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA had another thing to bring cheer in the new year – the extension of the International Space Station (ISS) from 2025 through 2030.

The announcement, through a NASA blog and US Vice President Kamala Harris on Twitter, commits to extend ISS operations through 2030, though it did not mention what, if any, additional funds would be made available to keep the ageing laboratory aloft.

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Alexa and Webex to hitch a ride around the Moon on Artemis I – what could possibly go wrong?

As if NASA’s troubled Artemis program didn’t have enough to worry about, tech utilising Amazon’s Alexa and Cisco’s Webex is set to be on board for the first mission around the Moon and back to Earth.

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Because nobody will actually be onboard the first Artemis mission, the plan is to make use of a virtual crew.

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Alexa: I’m sorry Dave.

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I mean… it’s on the moon? Why is anything on a different planet “disappointing”?

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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abl9174

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Now that is cool and exciting!

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If this discovery is confirmed it will be an incentive for lunar colonies. Next stop: New Berlin.

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