Rocket Lab offers ‘heartbroken’ students tour after Nasa trip abruptly cancelled
18 Jun
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Rocket Lab offers ‘heartbroken’ students tour after Nasa trip abruptly cancelled

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NASA Space Technology Navigation for News Categories Rocket Lab has 500 rocket scientists and engineers, and a big mission control at its Auckland facility. Photo: Supplied / Rocket LabRocket Lab is stepping in to fill the vacuum that more than a dozen students find themselves in after their space camp dreams came crashing down.It is offering the students a tour of its rocket factory and mission control in Auckland after a company organising to send the students to a US space camp collapsed.Actura charged up to $13,000 for...
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Voyager 1 returning science data again

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NASA Space Technology An illustration of one of the twin Voyager spacecraft now in interstellar space. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechWASHINGTON — The four instruments on NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft are returning science data for the first time since a computer malfunction last November, as scientists hope to keep the mission operating for up to another decade.NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced June 13 that the four instruments on the spacecraft, which measure plasma waves, magnetic fields and particles in interstellar space, have started returning data again. Two of the instruments started up immediately after commands were sent to the spacecraft May 19 while the other two required what JPL called “some additional work” to resume operations.The instruments had been offline since November 2023, when a computer malfunction on board the spacecraft caused it to return garbled data. A...
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Live coverage: Third time’s the charm for the Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test

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NASA Space Technology Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner launches atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on the Crew Flight Test at 10:52 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, June 5, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Image: Boeing/ Joey JettonUpdate June 5, 12:06 p.m.: The Boeing Starliner spacecraft successfully separated from the Centaur upper stage of the Atlas 5 rocket. The spacecraft completed its orbital insertion burn and a subsequent burn to circularize its orbit.The third time was the charm for the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. After two launch attempts on May 6 and June 1 ended with scrubs, the Atlas 5 rocket roared off pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, beginning a more than week-long mission for NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.Liftoff took place on June...
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