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Kennedy Space Center (United States) (AFP) - Two US astronauts arrived Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ahead of their launch aboard the Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission next month. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will blast off on the years-delayed flight on May 6 for a weeklong stay on the International Space Station (ISS). "We're about to launch on Boeing Starliner and broaden the capability to and from Space Station that our agency has, and that's vitally important," Wilmore told reporters. Since 2020, NASA astronauts have traveled to and from the ISS via SpaceX's ...
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A UN resolution tabled by the United States and Japan against an arms race in space has failed in the UN Security Council due to a veto by Russia. The draft resolution received 13 out of 15 votes in the Security Council, the most powerful UN body in New York on Wednesday. China abstained. The draft resolution called on all states, in particular those with major space capabilities, "to contribute actively to the objective of the peaceful use of outer space and of the prevention of an arms race in outer space and to refrain from actions contrary to that objective and to the relevant existing tre...
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Washington (AFP) - NASA's Voyager 1 probe -- the most distant man-made object in the universe -- is returning usable information to ground control following months of spouting gibberish, the US space agency announced Monday. The spaceship stopped sending readable data back to Earth on November 14, 2023, even though controllers could tell it was still receiving their commands. In March, teams working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory discovered that a single malfunctioning chip was to blame, and devised a clever coding fix that worked within the tight memory constraints of its 46-year-old com...
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Washington (AFP) - L'objet venu du ciel qui avait transpercé la maison d'un habitant de Floride arrivait bien de la Station spatiale internationale (ISS), a confirmé lundi la Nasa. Le 8 mars, un habitant d'une ville de Floride a récupéré un objet gris semi-cylindrique qui aurait, selon lui, "transpercé le toit et deux étages" de sa maison, et l'a transmis à l'agence spatiale américaine. Elle a confirmé lundi le scénario qui était alors supposé: l'objet vient d'une cargaison de vieilles batteries, des déchets relâchés de l'ISS en 2021 pourtant prévu pour rentrer dans l'atmosphère "sans danger"....
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Washington (AFP) - Même dans l'espace, les temps sont aux économies: la Nasa cherche des moyens de rapporter sur Terre des roches prélevées sur Mars de façon plus rapide et moins coûteuse, a annoncé lundi l'agence spatiale américaine, après des critiques sur son budget jugé "irréaliste". Cette annonce intervient alors que la mission chinoise Tianwen-3 pour le retour d'échantillons venus de la planète rouge devrait être lancée vers 2030, selon les médias d'Etat, dans un contexte de rivalités entre les deux puissances. Pour le chef de la Nasa Bill Nelson, "11 milliards de dollars, c'est trop che...
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Washington (AFP) - An object that crashed from the sky into an American man's home was a hunk of debris ejected from the International Space Station, NASA confirmed Monday. The strange tale came to light last month when Alejandro Otero of Naples, Florida posted on X that a metallic item "tore through the roof and went (through) 2 floors" of his house, almost striking his son, on March 8. It occurred at a time and location that closely matched official predictions for the atmospheric burn-up of a cargo pallet fragment carrying old batteries that was jettisoned from the orbital outpost in 2021, ...
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Washington (AFP) - NASA said Monday it was looking for ways to bring Martian rocks collected by the Perseverance rover back to Earth earlier and at a lower cost than planned after facing criticism for going massively over budget. The effort comes as China is making progress towards a simpler "grab-and-go" sample return mission to the red planet "around 2030," according to state media, which would make it the first nation to achieve the feat. "The bottom line is that $11 billion is too expensive, and not returning samples until 2040 is unacceptably too long," the US space agency's chief Bill Ne...
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Pasadena (United States) (AFP) - US space scientists on Thursday unveiled the interplanetary probe NASA plans to send to one of Jupiter's icy moons as part of humanity's hunt for extra-terrestrial life. The Clipper spacecraft is due to blast off in October bound for Europa, one of dozens of moons orbiting the Solar System's biggest planet, and the nearest spot in our celestial neighborhood that could offer a perch for life. "One of the fundamental questions that NASA wants to understand is, are we alone in the cosmos?" Bob Pappalardo, the mission's project scientist told AFP. "If we were to fi...
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Russia on Thursday successfully test-launched a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex, a lift-off that comes after two aborted attempts earlier this week. The first attempt to launch the Angara-A5 rocket from the Vostochny spaceport on Tuesday was cancelled about two minutes before the scheduled liftoff due to a failure of the pressurization system of the oxidizer tank in the central block of the rocket. The second attempted launch on Wednesday was also aborted by the automatic safety system, which registered a flaw in the engine start control mechanism, said Yuri Borisov, h...
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