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Últimos preparativos para la primera misión tripulada a la Luna con la campaña Artemis de la NASA
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Read this article in English here. Conforme la NASA se acerca al lanzamiento del vuelo de prueba Artemis II, la agencia pronto llevará por primera vez su cohete Sistema de Lanzamiento Espacial (SLS, por sus siglas en inglés) y la nave espacial…

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NASA’s Pandora Satellite Acquires Signal
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NASA’s Pandora satellite mission controllers received full acquisition of signal from the spacecraft on Jan. 11 on the first ground pass after liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Pandora will study planets…

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Hubble Spies Stellar Blast Setting Clouds Ablaze
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This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a jet of gas from a forming star shooting across the dark expanse. The bright pink and green patches running diagonally through the image are HH 80/81, a pair of Herbig-Haro (HH)…

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Fire Threatens Rare Forests in Argentina
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Blazes spread across Los Alerces National Park, home to some of the world's oldest trees.

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NASA’s Exoplanet Observing Satellite Separated From Rocket
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NASA’s Pandora space telescope satellite is in sun-synchronous orbit, preparing to study planets and their respective host stars beyond our solar system. Pandora will spend the next year conducting detailed observations of 20 exoplanets to determine whether any of their…

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Liftoff of NASA’s Newest Planet-Observing Satellite
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Pandora small satellite lifted off at 5:44 a.m. PST Sunday, Jan. 11, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base located on California’s central coast. In addition to Pandora, the…

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NASA’s Pandora Mission, CubeSats Ready for Flight
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NASA’s Pandora small satellite is preparing to launch to low Earth orbit, where it will study exoplanet atmospheres and their stars. Pandora is part of the Twilight rideshare mission with SpaceX and is set to launch aboard the company’s Falcon…

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Welcome to Launch Day for NASA’s Pandora Mission, CubeSats
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SpaceX is targeting a 57-minute launch window that opens at 8:19 a.m. EST (5:19 a.m. PST) Sunday, Jan. 11, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California for launch of its Twilight commercial rideshare mission…

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Change of Command of International Space Station to Occur
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NASA will provide live coverage of the International Space Station change of command ceremony starting at 2:35 p.m. EST Monday, Jan. 12. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. As Crew-11 prepares to depart from the space station,…

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NASA, SpaceX Set Target Date for Crew-11’s Return to Earth
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NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 5 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Jan. 14, for the undocking of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission from the International Space Station, pending weather conditions. 

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