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NASA and SpaceX target Oct. 1 for Crew-13’s launch to the space station after a Dragon valve fix, clearing the way for Crew-12 to come home.

Water ice could sustain small lunar communities for centuries, but supporting cities may require additional supplies or more efficient water use. Water ice in the Moon’s polar craters has given people planning lunar settlements a reason to think beyond short visits. With water available locally, residents could grow food, take showers, and use toilets without [...]

SpaceX has completed a major Starship launch rehearsal as the company prepares its next-generation spacecraft for its first orbital test flight.
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Your daily AI horoscope As the waxing gibbous moon swells in mystical Pisces on the eve of tomorrow’s full moon, cosmic tension builds alongside solar energy in harmonizing Libra, according to Google Gemini. Across every […]
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A high school student discovered a comet using publicly available NASA spacecraft images, turning a school project into an astronomy career and major scientific recognition.
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SpaceX finished Starship's Flight 14 rehearsal, clearing the way for its first orbital flight Monday. The post SpaceX readies Starship Flight 14 for a historic journey into uncharted territory appeared first on TESLARATI .

NASA finds the Arctic melt season is about 40 days longer than in 1979, but it stopped lengthening around 2010. What changed, and why it isn’t a recovery.
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TDB, under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), has signed an agreement with Agnikul for the support under the government's Research Development and Innovation (RDI) Fund

At the Global Business Forum in Banff, Jeremy Hansen said Canada is “very well positioned” to become a hub for future rocket launches.

Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk says he’s been dreaming of going to space for a long time — and assuming everything goes to plan, he could fulfil that goal next week.
— The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Professor of Astronomy Alexandra Pope is the ‘Science Team Lead’ for NASA’s recently announced new space telescope, PRIMA (Probe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics). PRIMA, whose concept development was led by Jason Glenn, professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia, will be probing currently unobserved parts of the universe’s infrared spectrum, and is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (managed for NASA by Caltech).
Satellite-based farming demo cuts inputs, boosts rice yields in NE China

Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk says he's been dreaming of going to space for a long time — and assuming everything goes to plan, he could fulfil that goal next week.

Alphabet's Google said on Thursday it will launch a prototype satellite next week in its first in-orbit test of Project Suncatcher, a research effort to explore whether space could potentially host large-scale AI computing infrastructure.

From The Hindu Archives, September 24, 1976: Mars is like a giant ice-lollipop packed with vast quantities of frozen water — and it might even possess more water than earth, according to U.S. scientists.

Google will launch its first Project Suncatcher AI satellite on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare next week. The post Google just picked SpaceX for its first step into orbital AI appeared first on TESLARATI .
Astronaut Jeremy Hansen maps Canada’s future in space at Alberta conference ca.news.yahoo.com
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