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According to the latest reports, Yusaku Maezawa, a prominent Japanese billionaire, has recently scrapped his planned "dearMoon" mission aboard a SpaceX spacecraft, citing uncertainties surrounding the launch date. In 2018, the fashion mogul unveiled his ambitious plan to travel to the Moon. He even went further in 2022 by securing seats for eight companions on this lunar voyage. The recently-scrapped mission would have marked Maezawa's second spaceflight, following his 12-day trip to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2021. He announced the cancellation of the...
IBTimes
Following a profound transformation of the space industry over the last decade, the European model, based mainly on public support, has become obsolete in an emerging economy where the US, China and India are thriving. "This model is no longer adequate for today's global, competitive space economy," says the EU's latest report on the single market, by former Italian president Enrico Letta. Most industrial resources are now concentrated in a few countries and companies with the capacity to build, launch and operate large space systems, which hinders growth and fragments Europe's potential in th...
Euronews (English)
Cape Canaveral (AFP) - Boeing's second attempt at launching a crew aboard its troubled Starliner spaceship was dramatically aborted Saturday with just minutes left on the countdown clock, yet another setback for a program that has faced years of delays. With the astronauts strapped in and ready for liftoff, the test mission to the International Space Station was unexpectedly halted due to reasons that aren't yet clear. United Launch Alliance, responsible for the Atlas V rocket that Starliner sits atop, is now investigating why an "automatic hold" was triggered by its computer with three minute...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered what appears to be a new record-holder for the most distant known galaxy, a remarkably bright star system that existed just 290 million years after the Big Bang, NASA said Thursday. Since coming online in 2022, the Webb telescope has ushered in a new era of scientific breakthroughs, peering farther than ever before into the universe's distant reaches -- which also means it is looking back in time. And the latest finding has "profound implications" for our understanding of the so-called Cosmic Dawn, researchers said. An internatio...
AFP
By Daniel Lawler Paris (AFP) - Le télescope spatial européen Euclid a découvert sept nouvelles planètes orphelines, des mondes solitaires errant dans l'espace interstellaire, sans lien avec une étoile. A la différence de la Terre ces astres ne connaissent ni jour ou nuit, ni mois ou années. Pourtant des scientifiques pensent que certains pourraient abriter une forme de vie, et se compter en milliards de milliards dans la galaxie. La découverte des nouvelles planètes orphelines a été faite vendredi dernier, dans une étude scientifique en prépublication sur arXiv.org, au lendemain de l'annonce d...
AFP (Français)
Washington (AFP) - Le premier vol spatial avec équipage du vaisseau Starliner de Boeing, déjà maintes fois reporté, s'apprête à décoller le 1er juin sans avoir réparé une fuite d'hélium détectée sur le vaisseau, ont annoncé l'entreprise américaine et la Nasa vendredi. Le lancement de cette mission vers la Station spatiale internationale (ISS), cruciale pour Boeing et attendue depuis des années, a déjà été reporté de nombreuses fois. Le décollage avait été annulé au dernier moment le 6 mai -- alors que les deux astronautes formant l'équipage étaient déjà installés à bord -- à cause d'un problèm...
AFP (Français)
Washington (AFP) - Boeing is set to launch its first crewed space mission in June without fixing a small helium gas leak on its troubled Starliner spaceship, officials said Friday. The vessel, under development since 2010, has been plagued by technical problems and has yet to fulfill its purpose of ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station, allowing Boeing's rival SpaceX to zoom ahead with its Crew Dragon capsule. Starliner was supposed to finally fly astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the orbital outpost on May 6, but the mission was scrubbed hours before lift-off aft...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - Starship, the world's most powerful rocket, is set for its next test flight on June 5, SpaceX announced on Friday. The launch window from the company's Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas opens at 7:00 am local time (1200 GMT), pending regulatory approval. It will be the fourth test for the sleek mega rocket, which is vital to NASA's plans for landing astronauts on the Moon later this decade, and to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's hopes of eventually colonizing Mars. Three previous attempts have ended in the Starship's destruction, all part of what the company says is an acceptable cost in...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - Russia has launched a likely space weapon and deployed it in the same orbit as a US government satellite, the Pentagon said. "Russia launched a satellite into low Earth orbit that we assess is likely a counter-space weapon presumably capable of attacking other satellites in low Earth orbit," Pentagon spokesman Air Force Major General Pat Ryder told a press briefing late Tuesday. The Russian "counter-space weapon" launched on May 16 was deployed "into the same orbit as a US government satellite," he said. Ryder added that Washington would continue to monitor the situation and...
AFP
Russia has launched a counterspace weapon into orbit capable of attacking a nearby U.S. government satellite, Washington officials said earlier this week. "On May 16, Russia launched a satellite into low Earth orbit that the United States assesses is likely a counterspace weapon presumably capable of attacking other satellites in low Earth orbit," Robert Wood, the U.S. alternative representative for Special Political Affairs at the U.N., said on May 20. Wood described the move as "troubling." Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Pat Ryder separately said on May 21 that the U.S. was monitori...
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