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The mission is planned to launch in 2028.
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The payload includes a 'Survive-the-Night' package from Zeno Power.
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The package uses a radioisotope heating unit (RHU) with americium-241 to produce 5 watts of thermal energy.
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The RHU is designed to keep components warm during the lunar night when temperatures drop to minus 170 degrees Celsius.
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The package's purpose is to send a ping back after five days into the lunar night.
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NASA included an incentive in a recent CLPS task order to demonstrate survive-the-night technologies.
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Firefly was one of three companies selected for that task order in June.
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Firefly Aerospace will fly a payload from Zeno Power on an upcoming lunar lander mission.
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The supernova is predicted to reappear between now and early March 2027.
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Supernova Athena was discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2025.
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Astronomers request approximately seven times more observing time than is available annually.
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Galaxy cluster MACS J0417 acts as a gravitational lens for the observation.
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Hubble Space Telescope completed its 200,000th orbit on Sept. 19.
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Hubble has been in operation for 36 years.
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Hubble has traveled more than 5 billion miles around Earth.
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Hubble has exceeded 1.7 million total observations.
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The telescope is currently monitoring for the reappearance of supernova Athena.
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled for launch in two days (relative to article date of August 28, 2026).
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Science operations are expected to begin in January 2027.
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The telescope features a 7.9-foot primary mirror, matching the diameter of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The Wide Field Instrument is designed to image an area 100 times larger than Hubble's field of view.
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The Coronagraph Instrument uses masks, prisms, detectors, filters, and self-flexing mirrors to suppress starlight.
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University of Arizona researchers received $2 million for the 'Kinematic Lensing with the Roman Space Telescope' team led by Elisabeth Krause.
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Tim Eifler's lab received $800,000 for computing resources and $2.4 million over five years for science research.
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The Coronagraph Instrument is expected to detect planets 100 million times fainter than their host stars.
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled for launch on Aug. 30 at 7:26 a.m. EDT.
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Launch vehicle: SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
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Launch site: Launch Complex-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
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Destination: Lagrange Point 2 (L2), approximately 1 million miles from Earth.
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Mission objectives: Wide surveys of the universe, research into dark matter/dark energy, and exoplanet imaging.
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Launch weather forecast: 50% chance of favorable conditions for Sunday; 70% chance for Monday/Tuesday.
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Operational timeline: Three months of deployment/calibration; first science images expected early 2027.
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Spacecraft scale comparison: Size of a tour bus, weight comparable to a T-Rex (per NASA official).
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Satrec Initiative is working with parent company Hanwha Aerospace.
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Hanwha Aerospace announced a 64-satellite SAR constellation in July.
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The SAR constellation aims for a 30-minute revisit rate by 2031.
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Satrec Initiative plans to launch four satellites providing 10-centimeter-class optical imagery.
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Satrec Initiative's SpaceEye-T provides 25-centimeter optical imagery and launched in 2025.
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Hanwha satellites for 10-centimeter imagery will operate at altitudes below 400km.
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Hanwha will start with a test satellite near 500km to manage atmospheric drag and atomic-oxygen exposure.
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Airbus is developing Pléiades Neo Next for 20-centimeter imagery in 2028.
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Vantor plans 20-centimeter-class imagery via its Vantage constellation.
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ImageSat International announced plans on Sept. 8 for 25-centimeter native resolution imagery.
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Shannon W. Lucid joined NASA in 1978 as one of its first six female astronauts.
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Lucid lived aboard the Russian space station Mir for six months alongside two Russian cosmonauts.
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The mission involved life science studies and experiments in microgravity, including monitoring wheat in the Svet greenhouse.
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Lucid returned to Earth on the space shuttle Atlantis on Sept. 26, 1996.
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The mission lasted 188 days, setting a record for an American and a woman at that time.
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President Bill Clinton awarded Shannon Lucid the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in December 1996.
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Lucid was the tenth person and the first woman to receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
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Lucid served as a CAPCOM in Mission Control and as NASA’s Chief Scientist.
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Lucid retired from NASA in 2012.
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The WFI covers at least 100 times more sky in a single pointing than Hubble.
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The mission includes three core surveys: High-Latitude Wide-Area Survey, High-Latitude Time-Domain Survey, and Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey.
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The telescope will return approximately 1.4 terabytes of compressed data daily.
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The Space Telescope Science Institute has developed the cloud-based Roman Research Nexus for data analysis.
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Unlike Hubble, Roman will have no proprietary period; calibrated exposures are intended for public release within days.
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The primary mission is expected to last five years, with an archive potentially exceeding 20 petabytes.
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch on August 30, 202/6 (Note: text contains a specific future date) via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
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The telescope will operate from the L2 Lagrange point, 1.5 million km from Earth.
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Roman features a 2.4 m-diameter primary mirror and a Wide Field Instrument (WFI).
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Three satellites on this flight feature cameras to monitor the heat shield during re-entry.
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During flight 13, only eight of thirteen intended engines reignited during descent.
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SpaceX has stated on its website that hardware and software modifications have been made to address previous issues.
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Starship flight 14 is scheduled to launch on September 22nd at 7:15am CDT from Starbase, Texas.
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The mission aims for an altitude of 275 km and six orbits over 10 hours.
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The flight will include the deployment of 26 Starlink V3 satellites.
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The booster and upper stage are not attempting a controlled landing during this flight.
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The project involves using human volunteers to train AI to identify artifacts in telescope data.
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NASA has launched a project called Artifact InSPECtor.
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Artifacts are signals caused by light glinting, cosmic rays, or electronic quirks rather than astronomical objects.
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The project uses spectrographs to split light into spectra.
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to begin science operations/data collection involving this process in early 2027.
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The Euclid space telescope is built by ESA with NASA contributions.
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The technology could potentially be used to sterilize spacesuits and tools.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) includes 23 Member States and nine Cooperating/Associate Members.
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ESA operates in more than nine locations across seven countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Spain, and the UK.
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Engineers have developed a prototype device called a 'laundry gun' that uses violet-colored plasma to sterilize fabric.
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The device is designed to reduce microbial load on clothes and soft surfaces in space.
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Gabe Xu, a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, is one of the creators.
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Quotes

“The package has one simple purpose, said Tyler Bernstein, chief executive of Zeno Power, in an interview: 'After five days into the lunar night, send a ping back and say, 'I am still here.''”— Tyler Bernstein [1]
“There is that call for solving the power problem to support all the Moon Base initiatives that NASA has communicated to us.”— Farah Zuberi [1]
“The self-contained package includes a small radioisotope heating unit, or RHU, using americium-241, a radioactive isotope, to produce 5 watts of thermal energy.”— article body [1]
“Roman will study the “ecology of the universe”.”— Jared Isaacman [1]
“NASA would need more than 500,000 TV sets to display the largest completed survey; laid out together, they’d cover some 45 city blocks.”— Dominic Benford [1]
“the wide view is essential, especially for cosmologists.”— Ami Choi [1]
“It’s really cool that we can help teach computers new skills,”— Maeve F. [1]