WASHINGTON — Interlune, a startup with plans to harvest helium-3 from the moon, will fly an instrument on the first lunar rover from fellow startup Astrolab.
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Dark Mirror of Our Own Universe Could Explain Quirks in Gravity : ScienceAlert
Since conventional explanations have failed to pony up dark matter, one physicist is looking towards the unconventional.
In a series of two papers, physicist Stefano Profumo of the University of California, Santa Cruz has proposed two…
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New survey maps hundreds of satellite systems orbiting dwarf galaxies
A study of small galaxies orbited by even smaller star systems could shed light on the universe’s formation
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Rocket Lab launches iQPS radar imaging satellite
WASHINGTON — A Rocket Lab Electron launched the latest in a series of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging satellites for a Japanese company Aug. 5.
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Lockheed Martin targets 2028 demo of space-based missile interceptors
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— Lockheed Martin is developing concepts for deploying missile interceptors in space as part of Golden Dome for America, the Trump administration’s ambitious program to create a comprehensive missile defense system…
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Lets Do Nukes On The Moon
Keith’s note: According to Politico: “Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, the first major action by the former Fox News host as the interim NASA administrator.” Not…
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Skyrora gets UK launch license as first flight likely slips to 2026
TAMPA, Fla. — Skyrora has become the first British company to secure a launch license from the U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), though a lack of available launch pads could push its first suborbital flight from SaxaVord…
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Spectroscopic Orbits of Subsystems in Multiple Stars. XI
Adding to the large radial velocity survey of nearby solar-type stars (summary in Tokovinin, 2023a), spectroscopic orbits are determined for four hierarchical systems: HIP 49442 (inner and outer periods of 164.55 days and 34 yr, respectively),…
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How Massive Star Clusters Form and Evolve: A Near-IR Survey of the W51 Complex
We present near-infrared JHKs and narrowband H2(1–0) photometric observations of the W51A region, obtained with GTC EMIR, aiming to characterize its young stellar population, and provide mass estimates for individual cluster members and the…
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