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From sample to results: in-space data analysis enables quicker data return
Apr 06, 2022 (SPX)
Traditionally, very large files of raw data from ISS experiments are downlinked to Earth and processed via data centers before results are sent to the investiga...
Station waits for private astronauts during science and spacewalk preps
Apr 06, 2022 (SPX)
The first private astronaut mission, Axiom Space-1 (Ax-1), is now scheduled to launch no earlier than Friday at 11:17 a.m. EDT from Kennedy Space Center in Flor...
Commercial research expands aboard the International Space Station
Apr 06, 2022 (SPX)
As NASA sets its sights once again on the Moon and eventually on Mars, low-Earth orbit is playing an even more critical role for achieving humanity's ambitions ...
Ax-1: why the private mission to the International Space Station is a gamechanger
Apr 06, 2022 (SPX)
The mission by the US commercial aerospace company Axiom Space is a major step forward in private space travel, and is part of a plan to build a private space s...
In space, Russians and Americans remain 'dear friends': astronaut
Apr 05, 2022 (AFP)
Vande Hei landed in Kazakhstan last Wednesday in a Russian capsule, along with cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov. "About my relationship with my Russ...
Roscosmos to Brief Russian Government on Options for Ending ISS Cooperation Soon, Rogozin Says
Apr 03, 2022 (XNA)
"Roscosmos will present its concrete proposals on the timeline for ending ISS cooperation with US, Canadian, EU and Japanese space agencies to the leadership of...
On the road to cultured meat for astronauts and Earthlings
Apr 01, 2022 (ESA)
The idea of feeding astronauts on long-duration missions with cultured meat was initially proposed by ESA engineer Paolo Corradi. Paolo explains: "For long-term...
Winning technologies benefit NASA and Industry
Mar 31, 2022 (SPX)
"Whether creating new space technologies that help wildfire fighters or software that will help NASA deep space probes navigate safely to distant destinations, ...
Sierra Space to revolutionize space exploration with Siemens' Xcelerator
Mar 31, 2022 (SPX)
The company is implementing Xcelerator to establish a fully digital environment from engineering to manufacturing through sustainment, which will help realize g...
US astronaut and two cosmonauts return from ISS in Russian Soyuz capsule
Mar 31, 2022 (SPX)
The trio departed the International Space Station at 3:21 a.m. EDT and made a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 7:28 a.m. (5:28 p.m. Kazakhstan time) southeas...
At IAF anniversary celebration, a plea for continued cooperation in Space
Mar 30, 2022 (SPX)
space agencies industries and other space-related entities with over 433 members from 72 countries. This year's congress is due in Paris in late September. Spea...
A tool for predicting the future
Mar 30, 2022 (SPX)
Making predictions using time-series data typically requires several data-processing steps and the use of complex machine-learning algorithms, which have such a...
US astronaut and two cosmonauts get down to Earth in a Soyuz capsule
Mar 30, 2022 (AFP)
"The crew of Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, as well as NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, has returned to Earth," Roscosmos said after foot...
SENER completes hard capture system for universal docking mechanism
Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)
SENER Aeroespacial takes part in the IBDM as part as the European consortium, developing the HCS. It is an extremely precise and complex system which has the pu...
Russian space agency wants foreign partners to pay it in rubles
Mar 23, 2022 (AFP)
"We will also conclude all our external agreements in rubles," the Roscosmos space agency head Dmitry Rogozin was quoted as saying by the official Tass news age...
Lettuce could protect astronauts' bones on Mars trip
Mar 23, 2022 (SPX)
Our bones are constantly balanced between growth and resorption, allowing bones to respond to injury or changes in exercise. Spending time in microgravity disru...
Russian trio blast off for ISS in shadow of Ukraine war
Mar 18, 2022 (AFP)
Russian space veteran Oleg Artemyev and rookies Denis Matveyev and Sergei Korsakov set off at 1555 GMT, a NASA live feed showed, beginning a three-hour ride to ...
US comic Pete Davidson not going to space after all
Mar 18, 2022 (AFP)
The 28-year-old star of Saturday Night Live, who has been in the news recently because of his relationship with Kim Kardashian, is "no longer able to join the N...
Developing design tools for outer space structures
Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)
The problem is that NASA envisions that many of those structures will be made from tailorable composite materials, but no design tool has been able to fully exp...
ISS crews prepare for flow of visitors, rotations over next month
Mar 17, 2022 (Sputnik)
"[The] Soyuz launch on schedule on Friday [is] bringing three Russian crew members to the ISS and then returning [on March 30] with three ISS crew mates to land...
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