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If you would like to see more articles like this please support our coverage of the space program by becoming a Spaceflight Now Member. If everyone who enjoys our website helps fund it, we can expand and improve our coverage further. An astronaut on the International Space Station took this picture during an orbital sunrise in April 2021. Credit: NASA The Biden administration announced this week that NASA will develop a series of five Earth science satellite missions over the next decade, part of a $2.5 billion program called the Earth System Observatory to collect climate and geological dat...

Science News and April 30, 2021 A man tries to wrap his arms around a massive 800-year old Douglas Fir in Vancouver Island, Canada. Matthew Bailey/VWPics/Universal Images Group, via Getty Images NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. and WASHINGTON, D.C. – Together Science News and The New York Times Learning Network are excited to announce the winners of the 2021 STEM Writing Contest. Eleven talented young science communicators are named winners based on their keen ability to shed light on scientific topics ranging from star polymers to space origami to singing finches. In its second year, the ...

Can astronaut suits repel lunar dust? This team believes so University team takes a look at the moon's ghastly, sticky blanket -- and how astronauts could keep it off. When multiple talented engineers go into the same room (or Zoom call), awesome things can happen, especially when experts in other disciplines also pitch in. Case in point: engineers and designers recently collaborated on how to protect spacesuits from lunar dust. Moon dust can be a big problem for astronauts. Image credits: NASA. Moondust is unlike the light powdery stuff we’re used to seeing on Earth. Earthly dust is more �...

Published March 14, 2021, 9:15 AM Maya-2, along with two other cube satellites–Japan’s Tsuru and Paraguay’s GuaraniSat-1–under the fourth Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite project or BIRDS-4 Project, is set to be deployed into orbit from the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, March 14, at 5:25 p.m., the STAMINA4Space has announced. Maya-2 (DOST) BIRDS-4 Project is a global small satellite development project under a strategic partnership pact between the Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) and the Japan Aerospace and Exploration Agency (JAXA). On Feb. 21, 2021 a...

Published March 14, 2021, 5:40 PM This afternoon’s release of Maya-2, the country’s fourth satellite and second nanosatellite. to space from the International Space Station (ISS) will be delayed for more than one hour, the Department of Science and Technology-Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) said Sunday, March 14. Maya-2 (DOST) “The release of Maya-2 will be delayed, the schedule has been adjusted to 6:50 p.m.,” DOST-ASTI Chief Science Research Specialist Alvin Retamar told the Manila Bulletin in a Viber message. He said the reasons for the delay were not cited. ...