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Cool. Now I have a valid reason to study in the UK. :P @Mav: Ya, northbound launch. Targeting SSO and high-inclination orbit. Not sure if it is economically feasible though. (Maybe another project similar to the Mahia Peninsula launch facility owned by RocketLab?). I do know Lockheed Martin...

New Spectre 1.1 and Spectre 1.2 CPU Flaws Disclosed Two security researchers have revealed details about two new Spectre-class vulnerabilities, which they've named Spectre 1.1 and Spectre 1.2. Spectre 1.1 and Spectre 1.2 short description According to researchers, a Spectre 1.1 attack uses...

Listen: Sound of Electromagnetic Energy Moving Between Saturn, Enceladus New research from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft’s up-close Grand Finale orbits shows a surprisingly powerful and dynamic interaction of plasma waves moving from Saturn to its rings and its moon Enceladus. The observations...

ISRO carried out a major technology demonstration today (July 05, 2018), the first in a series of tests to qualify a Crew Escape System, which is a critical technology relevant for human spaceflight. The Crew Escape System is an emergency escape measure designed to quickly pull the crew module...

Less than 2000 km away! Will arrive at Ryugu on 27th of June (planned). Stay up to date with Hayabusa-2 by visiting the official mission webpage. You may also download the press conference material here (English version).

Some updates: Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning Ever since NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft flew past Jupiter in March, 1979, scientists have wondered about the origin of Jupiter’s lightning. That encounter confirmed the existence of Jovian lightning, which had been theorized...

|Launch date:|June 4, 2018 Launch Window Opens:| 12:29 a.m. EDT/4:29 UTC Launch Window Closes:| 4:29 a.m. EDT/8:29 UTC Backup Launch Window:| Tuesday, June 5 (12:29 a.m. EDT/4:29 UTC) Launch site:| Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida...

Success! In lunar resonant orbit! NASA_TESS on Twitter: ".@NASA_TESS Mission Update: The Period Adjust Maneuver (PAM) was completed successfully on May 30th. The burn was confirmed as nominal. No trajectory adjustment maneuver will be required. Success! #TESS is in its final lunar resonant orbit!"

BBC: Methane ice dunes found on Pluto Scientists say they have found evidence of dunes of frozen methane on Pluto. The research, which is published in the journal Science, suggests that the distant world is more dynamic than previously thought. Pluto's atmosphere was believed to be too thin...

One of the first images returned by Dawn in more than a year, as Dawn moves to its lowest-ever and final orbit around Ceres. Dawn captured this view on May 16, 2018 from an altitude of about 270 miles (440 kilometers). Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is...

My third program after venturing into the scientific computing world. Thought it would be nice to share with the rest. https://github.com/AstrodynamicistKang/1959-US-Air-Force-ARDC-Standard-Atmosphere-Model- Take note that the algorithms used may not be the most efficient ones, but one can...

They made it! Source: Spacenews.com, Virgin Galactic

Some updates from the 2 moon cubesats. DSLWP-B has entered moon orbit, but DSLWP-A's UHF downlink seems to be offline The cubesats tracking documents and software can be found here: https://github.com/bg2bhc/dslwp_doc (Have a look at the PDF. It is bilingual with English translation readily...

This is spreading like wildfire on the Net. SpaceX's F9 launch for the GRACE-FO mission turned a nice camera into a roasted one. Before: After: Some background story: Anyway, it's kind of interesting to see what a rocket can do apart from propelling humans and cargoes spaceward...

Lunar fly-by successful! Andrew Jones on Twitter: "#queqiao Chang'e-4 satellite is right now (13:41 UTC/ 09:41 EDT/ 21:41 BJT) expected to flyby the Moon at ~110 km above the surface & head to E-M Lagrange point 2, after a braking manoeuvre. Hopefully we'll get actual updates from China before...

Captured!

Drill again! And after a year-long hiatus, the drilling has resumed! NASA's Curiosity rover successfully drilled a 2-inch-deep hole in a target called "Duluth" on May 20. It was the first rock sample captured by the drill since October 2016. This image was taken by Curiosity's Mast Camera...

First MCC completed!

We got some problems with this one. Source: NOAA, Spacenews.com, ArsTechnica

All arrived at Kourou!