As the Mars rover Perseverance crested the top of Witch Hazel Hill, its operators back on Earth expected amazing things. This area on the western rim of the Jezero crater, along an ancient river delta that Perseverance has been…
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Europe pursues ‘strategic autonomy’ amidst geopolitical shifts
As Arianespace wrapped up the webcast of the March 6 launch of the CSO-3 French reconnaissance satellite on an Ariane 6 rocket, the broadcast aired a recorded message from Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Captures Rare Martian Dust Devil Collision in Stunning Detail
On Mars, swirling columns of dust—known as dust devils—regularly roam the landscape, sometimes colliding in dramatic displays like one recently captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover. In a rare moment, the rover filmed a large dust devil…
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Potential NASA Earth science cuts highlight budget uncertainty
COLORADO SPRINGS — Some NASA Earth science missions have been told to prepare termination plans given the potential for major budget cuts in the agency’s overall science activities.
Rep. George Whitesides (D-Calif.), vice ranking member…
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China’s megaconstellation launches could litter orbit for more than a century, analysts warn
HELSINKI — China’s construction of a pair of communications megaconstellations could cloud low Earth orbit with large spent rocket stages for decades or beyond, according to analysts.
Launches for the government’s Guowang and…
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Space Symposium 2025
The global space industry’s largest annual conference is happening April 7-10 at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado Symposium coverage sponsor
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NASA’s SPHEREx Sees 100,000 Galaxies at Once, and It’s Just Getting Started – “And Wow! Just Wow!”
SPHEREx, NASA’s new space telescope, just opened its eyes to the universe and delivered its very first images from space. Though not yet fully calibrated, the images already showcase a sweeping view filled with stars and galaxies — over…
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Perfecting Payloads: Raytheon Uses Digital Engineering to Unlock the Next Generation of Remote Sensing
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A new rotation period and longitude system for Uranus
Archinal, B. A. et al. Report of the IAU Working Group on cartographic coordinates and rotational elements: 2015. Celest. Mech. Dyn. Astr. 130, 22 (2018).
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Diverse evolutionary pathways of spheroidal asteroids driven by rotation rate
Automatic rock identification
Mapping of rock particles on asteroids can be extremely challenging for several reasons. To achieve meaningful statistical analysis, thousands of particles must be correctly identified. More importantly, each particle…
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