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The Space Station Leak Is Rearing Its Ugly Head Again

Space Draft Space tourism company Axiom Space has had to postpone its fourth chartered SpaceX flight to the International Space Station after NASA announced it needed more time to investigate an air leak affecting the orbital lab. For five years, NASA and its Russian counterpart Roscosmos have been hunting down leaks, highlighting the age of the station, which has been continuously occupied for 25 years. The issue has since been traced back to the Russian segment of the ISS, specifically, the Zvezda service module, and was identified as a “top safety risk,” according to a 2024 report by NASA’s inspector […]

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Author: Victor Tangermann

1000 Hours with the Square Kilometre Array is Our Best Hope to Finally See Cosmic Dawn.

The Hubble Deep Field revolutionised astronomy by staring at a seemingly empty patch of sky for thousands of hours, unveiling a cosmos teeming with distant galaxies. But even Hubble can’t peer back far enough to witness the universe’s first moment of illumination; the Cosmic Dawn, when primordial darkness gave way to starlight. Now, the Square Kilometre Array promises to shatter that barrier. In a groundbreaking simulation, researchers have modelled 1000 hours of SKA observations, creating astronomy’s next great deep field, one designed to capture the universe’s very first sunrise.

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Author: Mark Thompson