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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 363

space exploration

SpaceX's mega-rocket Starship cuts through clouds and haze on its third test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, March 14, 2024. (Eric Gay/AP)
March 14, 2024, 9:17 pm
SpaceX nearly completes test flight of mega rocket, loses spacecraft near end
Company says contact lost with Starship as it neared Indian Ocean after taking off from Texas, but scientists satisfied with progress
By Marcia Dunn
This photo released by the Iranian Defense Ministry on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, claims to show a rocket with a capsule carrying animals as it is launched from an undisclosed location into orbit, Iran. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)
December 6, 2023, 12:43 pm
Iran claims to send animals into space to prepare for human missions
Western countries suspicious Iranian space program could be used for military purposes
By AP
In this image from video provided by NASA, technicians in a clean room examine the sample return capsule from NASA's Osiris-Rex mission after it landed at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020. (NASA via AP)
September 26, 2023, 3:04 am
NASA’s first asteroid samples from deep space, 4.5 billion years old, land on Earth
Samples taken to lab for careful examination after release from spacecraft at conclusion of seven-year journey
By Marcia Dunn
Journalists film the live telecast of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 landing on the moon at ISRO's Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network facility in Bengaluru, India, Aug. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
August 23, 2023, 4:40 pm
India becomes 4th nation to put spacecraft on the moon
Country joins the US, Soviet Union and China in achievement as it seeks to cement its growing space prowess, days after Russian lunar failure
By ASHOK SHARMA
The Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 automatic station takes off from a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East, on Friday, August 11, 2023. (Roscosmos State Space Corporation via AP)
August 20, 2023, 2:03 pm
Russian rover collides with Moon after botched landing
Luna-25 craft — first Russian vehicle to attempt Moon landing since 1976 — was meant to touch down Monday in race with Indian project
By AP
Prof. Avi Loeb, center, on a scientific expedition off of the coast of Papua New Guinea in June 2023 to identify parts of a possible interstellar meteor that crashed in 2014. (Courtesy of Loeb)
July 27, 2023, 2:43 am
Avi Loeb’s claims of finding possible alien technology are polarizing scientists
Funded by a crypto mogul, the Israel-born Harvard professor says a meteor that exploded off the coast of Papua New Guinea may be the first interstellar object found by humanity
By Rich Tenorio
This photograph taken on April 14, 2023, shows Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket lifting off from its launchpad, at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. (Jody AMIET / AFP)
April 14, 2023, 6:30 pm
European space mission carrying Israeli tech blasts off for Jupiter’s moons
JUICE mission will seek to analyze liquid detected beneath ice of Ganymede, including instrument managed by scientists from Weizmann Institute to look for aberrations in tides
By Juliette COLLEN
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload including two lunar rovers from Japan and the United Arab Emirates, lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 11, 2022. (AP Photo/ John Raoux)
December 11, 2022, 11:04 pm
Private Japanese lander rockets toward the moon atop UAE rover
It will take nearly five months for the lander and its experiments to reach the moon; with a science satellite already around Mars, Abu Dhabi wants to expand its exploration
By Marcia Dunn
The Epsilon-6 rocket blasts off from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki town, Kagoshima prefecture, southern Japan, October 12, 2022. The Japanese space agency said its rocket failed just after liftoff Wednesday and had to be aborted by a self-destruction command, in the country’s first failed rocket launch in nearly 20 years. (Kyodo News via AP)
October 12, 2022, 8:51 am
Japan space rocket self-destructs after failed launch
Epsilon-6 rocket carrying 8 satellites is destroyed after a problem was discovered, to prevent risk of damage if it fell to earth, in Japan’s first failed launch since 2003
By Kyoko HASEGAWA
The NASA moon rocket for the Artemis mission stands on Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, September 21, 2022. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
September 24, 2022, 8:53 pm
NASA scraps third attempt at moon launch due to tropical storm
Tuesday’s planned launch of unmanned spacecraft canceled as ‘hurricane strength’ winds set to hit Florida early next week; previous 2 launches were terminated due to fuel leaks
By AFP
Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan bin Salman talks at the Global Aerospace Summit in Abu Dhabi, UAE about his 1985 experience as the first Arab and Muslim to travel to space aboard NASA's Discovery shuttle, March 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Aya Batrawy, File)
September 22, 2022, 5:50 pm
Saudi Arabia announces plans to send female astronaut to space
Kingdom seeks to accomplish goal by 2023; part of ‘Vision 2030’ initiative to overhaul economy, reduce oil dependency and further integrate women into workforce
By AP
Emirati officials brief Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum about a possible moon mission, Sept. 29, 2020, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Twitter account via AP, File)
September 19, 2022, 9:00 pm
UAE to launch first lunar rover in joint mission with Japan
If successful, the countries would join US, Russia and China in having put spacecraft on moon; Abu Dhabi working toward goal of building human colony on Mars by 2117
By AP
Four views of the planet named HIP 65426 b, captured by the James Webb telescope and released on September 1, 2022. (NASA/ESA/CSA, A Carter (UCSC), the ERS 1386 team, and A. Pagan (STScI)
September 4, 2022, 10:58 pm
James Webb telescope captures first image of a planet outside our solar system
Pioneering pictures of the exoplanet, called HIP 65426 b, show it to be an uninhabitable gas giant with no rocky surface
By AFP
The moon sets in front of the NASA Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, June 15, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. With liftoff planned for Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, the 322-foot rocket will attempt to send an empty crew capsule into a far-flung lunar orbit. (AP/John Raoux, File)
August 25, 2022, 5:21 am
NASA to test new moon rocket, 50 years after Apollo
Liftoff for high-stakes test flight set for Monday morning from Kennedy Space Center; mannequin aboard to test Israeli-made anti-radiation suit
By Marcia Dunn
An illustration of the Orion aircraft carrying two female-form human mannequins, one wearing the AstroRad protection suit by Israeli company Stemrad. (NASA/DLR)
August 8, 2022, 6:09 pm
Israel’s StemRad gears up for major demo of anti-radiation suit on NASA’s Artemis I
Company to test protective qualities of AstroRad vest on humanoid mannequin aboard Orion spacecraft, set for launch later this month
By Ricky Ben-David
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