~orbitalindex | Issue No. 318 (57)
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Proba-3 achieves precise formation flying
ESA’s Proba-3 mission became the first set of free-flying spacecraft to maintain mm-level precision formation flying
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3DEES instrument for the study of Earth’s radiation environment is approved
radiation measurement with the 3DEES payload
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https://english.spacechina.com/n17212/c4289299/content.html
Moon’s huge and well-preserved farside South Pole-Aitken basin is 4.25 billion years old
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273117725000365
Surface Thermophysical Experiment
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https://scitechdaily.com/lunar-ice-breakthrough-a-new-discovery-that-could-fuel-space-exploration/
models suggest that pole-facing slopes greater than 14° in this region could have temperatures capable of...
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Molten Martian Core Could Explain Red Planet’s Magnetic Quirks
Mars having had a liquid core (as opposed to Earth’s solid core) with significant differences in...
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https://astrobites.org/2024/12/24/its-getting-hot-in-here-so-take-off-all-your-h2o/
Based on a lack of water in volcanic gases detected on Venus
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NASA DAVINCI Mission’s Many ‘Firsts’ to Unlock Venus’ Hidden Secrets - NASA Science
hopefully tell us more
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Planetary alignment provides NASA rare opportunity to study Uranus
Observing the dimming of a star as it passed behind Uranus
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Uranus Stellar Occultation Campaign 2025 – NASA Langley Research Center Science Directorate
18 observatories around the world
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"Big surprise": astronomers find planet in perpendicular orbit around pair of stars
orbits two brown dwarf stars simultaneously, and very unusually, it does so in a polar orbit...
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Inversion completes first flight of reentry vehicle, but without reentry
completed the first flight
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https://x.com/InversionSpace/status/1917977979768148459/photo/2
short circuit in its propulsion system
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Interlune Unveils Prototype Lunar Helium-3 Excavator
unveiled a full-scale prototype
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Rocket Lab's Neutron tapped for U.S. military cargo test
selected for an experimental cargo delivery Air Force mission
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IonQ Buys Capella Space For Quantum Comms Gambit
bought SAR satellite operator Capella Space
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European Space Agency announces new cooperation with Indian Space Research Organisation
announced new cooperation initiatives
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FAA gives environmental approval for increased Starship launch rate
granted environmental approval
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SpaceX workers in South Texas vote yes to create City of Starbase
incorporation into a city
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Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit
reentered over the Indian Ocean
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Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit
Eric Schmidt apparently bought Relativity Space to put data centers in orbit
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Final Flight of the X-15 Left a Legacy of Success - NASA
X-15’s last flight almost 60 years ago
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The company with the world’s largest aircraft now has a hypersonic rocket plane
Ars looks at the pivot of the company
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https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/05/extended-astronaut-missions/
all the other ‘stranded’ astronauts
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How We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15 Billion Miles Away
How we diagnosed and fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 anomaly from 15 billion miles away
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Why NASA should apply the CLPS mindset to low-cost science missions, not just landers
Why NASA should apply the CLPS mindset to low-cost science missions, not just landers
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Why 21 cm is our Universe's "magic length"
hydrogen’s 21 cm emission line and its importance in cosmology
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Billions wasted, mysteries unsolved: The missions NASA may be forced…
Billions wasted, mysteries unsolved: The missions NASA may be forced to abandon
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NASA says this enormous construction in China is slowing down Earth
filling it has slowed down the Earth’s rotation by 21.9 microseconds per year
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