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NASA's first science-quality images from the observatory will be released with the main image release event will take place on July 12 at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT) and you can watch will be webcast live at Space.com courtesy of NASA or directly through the agency's website
https://www.nasa.gov/live/
along with NASA's website and social media channels.
Additional events will take place later in the day and on July 13.

source: https://www.space.com/news
#space #nasa #jwst

NASA roll its #Artemis 1 moon rocket off the launch pad on Friday evening (July 1)

The latest try did not go perfectly smoothly — a hydrogen leak was discovered during fueling operations — but NASA officials deemed it good enough to start preparing Artemis 1 for liftoff.

The mission team is apparently eyeing late August or early September for the liftoff, but an official target date won't be set until SLS and Orion have been inspected fully back at the VAB. 

source: https://www.space.com/artemis-1-moon-mission-roll-off-launch-pad

SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy rocket prototype moves to launch pad for tests
The giant Starship and Super Heavy booster may shoot for an orbital test as soon as July.
https://www.space.com/starship-super-heavy-rocket-launch-pad-move-june-2022-photos

BepiColombo is only supposed to swing into an orbit around Mercury in 2025, until then it will slow down several times on the planet. Now it was there for the second time.
BepiColombo: ESA probe again passed Mercury
https://www.heise.de/news/BepiColombo-ESA-Sonde-erneut-an-Merkur-vorbeigerast-7151900.html
#space

A SpaceX rocket caused this reddish glow captured over Maryland.

source: https://www.cnet.com/science/space/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-can-cause-an-aurora-like-glow-in-the-sky/

NASA's tiny #CAPSTONE probe continues spiraling out toward the #moon

The CAPSTONE mission has just one engine burn left in Earth orbit — one that will send it on its way to the moon.

Finally, on Nov. 13, the spacecraft will slip into a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the moon, a highly elliptical path that will take it within 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of the lunar surface on its closest path and as far away as 43,500 miles (70,000 km).

source: https://www.space.com/nasa-capstone-moon-cubesat-aces-engine-burns
#space

NASA's first science-quality images from the observatory will be released with the main image release event will take place on July 12 at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT) and you can watch will be webcast live at Space.com courtesy of NASA or directly through the agency's website
https://www.nasa.gov/live/
along with NASA's website and social media channels.
Additional events will take place later in the day and on July 13.

source: https://www.space.com/news
#space #nasa #jwst

NASA roll its #Artemis 1 moon rocket off the launch pad on Friday evening (July 1)

The latest try did not go perfectly smoothly — a hydrogen leak was discovered during fueling operations — but NASA officials deemed it good enough to start preparing Artemis 1 for liftoff.

The mission team is apparently eyeing late August or early September for the liftoff, but an official target date won't be set until SLS and Orion have been inspected fully back at the VAB. 

source: https://www.space.com/artemis-1-moon-mission-roll-off-launch-pad

1 hour documentary film "The Pathfinders" retraces the journey of this daring mission to Mars that captured the imagination of people around the world with its dramatic landing and its tiny rover – the first wheels ever to roll on Mars.
https://youtu.be/1rVH0YlcKyY
#space #mars #nasa

Martian dust devil: NASA's Perseverance witnesses gusty winds in Jezero crater
During its first few hundred days in Jezero crater, NASA's Perseverance rover saw some of the most intense dust activity witnessed by a mission sent to the surface of the Red Planet. Perseverance not only detected hundreds of dusty cyclones known as dust devils, but also captured the first-ever video of gusts whipping up massive Martian dust clouds.
source: https://www.cnbeta.com/articles/science/1285857.htm
Translated by Google Translate
#mars

SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy rocket prototype moves to launch pad for tests
The giant Starship and Super Heavy booster may shoot for an orbital test as soon as July.
https://www.space.com/starship-super-heavy-rocket-launch-pad-move-june-2022-photos

NASA and SpaceX now are targeting no earlier than Thursday, July 14, for launch of the CRS-25 commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2022/06/28/nasa-spacex-target-new-launch-date-for-commercial-cargo-mission/
#space #iss

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo ship boosts International Space Station's orbit

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft successfully reboosted the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time, raising the orbiting lab to its normal operating altitude of around 250 miles above Earth.

The reboost took place on Saturday (June 25) and marks the first time a Cygnus spacecraft has performed a full reboost procedure.

source: https://www.space.com/space-station-cygnus-orbit-reboost-success
#space #iss

Rogozin: NPO Lavochkin started work on Russian mission to Mars
https://ria.ru/20220629/mars-1798893513.html

#CAPSTONE Launch to the Moon (Official NASA Broadcast) - YouTube
https://youtu.be/JGx400xCDVY

NASA's tiny CAPSTONE cubesat launches on pioneering moon mission
CAPSTONE will arrive in lunar orbit on Nov. 13 after its successful liftoff on Rocket Lab's Electron.
https://www.space.com/nasa-capstone-cubesat-moon-launch-success-rocket-lab
#space #CAPSTONE

Curiosity's mast-mounted camera took this landscape view of the region of the Gale Crater on May 2, 2022.

A NASA rocket has launched in Australia. It was the first rocket launch from private property outside of the United States. A historic event for Australian space travel.
NASA rocket launched in Australia for the first time
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute-sendungen/videos/australien-rakete-nasa-100.html
#space #nasa

The Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply ship is set to depart the station on Tuesday
https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/1541444518712688640
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#CAPSTONE, a small pathfinding CubeSat that will fly a new path to the Moon. After launch, it will embark on a 4-month journey to lunar orbit, charting the way for future missions.
https://twitter.com/NASA_Technology/status/1541491926733656064

Rocket Lab is targeting June 28 for the launch of #CAPSTONE, an orbit-finder for the NASA Gateway mission to the Moon.
https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1541459976614469633

A first-of-its-kind study published in the journal Icarus investigates this phenomenon on Mars. Looking at the planet, researchers have discovered hundreds of craters that likely resulted from the impacts of a binary system, where one asteroid orbits another, like the moon orbits Earth.

source: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mars-binary-asteroid-craters
#space #mars

Yes, there are 100 million rogue black holes wandering our galaxy
https://mashable.com/article/black-holes-rogue-discovery-space

How Beautiful Clouds Are Worrying Scientists | Noctilucent Clouds
https://youtu.be/GJrV6v_k0fw

No man-made object is as far away from us as Voyager 1 and 2. While the probes are running out of power, other systems are should be shut down.
Voyager probes: NASA wants to disable systems and save power
https://www.heise.de/news/Eingestaubte-NASA-Marssonde-Insight-Mehr-Datensammlung-kuerzere-Lebensdauer-7147723.html
#space #nasa