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2 days agoInside NASA's very ambitious' moon base plan
Living and working on the Moon requires an ecosystem approach, with Artemis missions building toward a permanent lunar outpost by 2030.
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2 months agoNASA wants ISS extended to 2032 and a Moon base too
The ISS project was set to end in 2030. In 2024, NASA awarded a contract to Elon Musk's SpaceX to build a tug to de-orbit the outpost by 2030, assuming it lasts that long. By then the complex's first module will have been in orbit for more than 30 years, and cracks have plagued the structure alongside hardware failures as the laboratory ages.
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3 months agoOther Barks & Bites for Friday, February 6: Counterfeit Study Shows 41% Fail Product Safety Standards; USPTO De-Designates PTAB Precedentials on RPI Amendments
41% of counterfeit apparel and footwear tested failed U.S. safety standards for hazardous chemicals, indicating significant consumer health risks and regulatory gaps.
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5 months agoYou're reading this story thanks to decades of space exploration-but that's exactly why policies need to change
Space exploration yields long-term technological, economic, security, and scientific benefits and requires policy to manage orbital traffic, debris, and competing interests.
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6 months agoNASA's Moon Mission Is a Mess, and It May Cost Us the New Space Race
The first Trump administration unveiled its Artemis lunar landing program in 2017, aiming for astronaut boots on the moon in 2024 and an eventual Artemis Base Camp a decade later. These would not be Apollo-style flags-and-footprints sorties but rather longer-duration missions meant to support the construction of an eventual Artemis Base Camp lunar outpost; as such, they require bigger rockets and spacecraftand more complex hardware for surface operations.
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7 months agoFCC vows to fast-track satellite licensing in Space Race 2.0
The US Federal Communications Commission has launched "Space Month," with Chairman Brendan Carr saying that "we'll replace a default to no at the agency to a default to yes" for satellite licensing requests. The FCC's processes are set for an overhaul, with bespoke licensing being ditched in favor of what Carr called "a licensing assembly line" and a review of sitting rules for Earth stations to facilitate more intensive use of the upper microwave spectrum.
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7 months agoDon't look up: how Trump's deregulation drive could obscure the stars and threaten our access to space
Rapid expansion of commercial satellite constellations, led by SpaceX's Starlink, is crowding low Earth orbit and disrupting astronomy, environment, and celestial visibility.
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