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Satellite images and AI to help detect organic-cotton fields

A new initiative plans to combine data from satellite images and AI to keep track of cotton certification in India.

3 Chinese astronauts return home safely after six-month stint in space station

US poet laureate dedicates ode to Europa for NASA mission to Jupiter's icy moon

Pixxel raises $36 million to advance hyperspectral satellite constellation and data platform

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Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft reaches launch port ahead of next month’s launch

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Chinese astronauts for the Shenzhou-16 mission, from left, Gui Haichao, Zhu Yangzhu and Jing Haipeng wave during a send-off ceremony for their manned space mission at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, Tuesday, May 30, 2023.

China successfully launches new manned spaceship with first civilian on board

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ISRO Chairman S. Somanath addresses a press conference after the successful launch of GSLV-F12/NVS-01 mission, in Sriharikota on May 29.

ISRO looking at testing Gaganyaan crew module mission by July, says Chairman Somanath

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A journalist takes photos at the the launch site for China Manned Space Agencys Shenzhou-16 and Long March-2F rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on May 29, 2023 in Jiuquan, China.

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ISRO’s GSLV-F12/NVS-01 mission was launched from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota, on May 29, 2023

ISRO’s GSLV-F12 successfully places navigation satellite NVS-01 into intended orbit

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Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on May 28 at 7.12 am commenced the 27.5 hour countdown for the launch of a navigation satellite on board a GSLV rocket in Sriharikota on May 29. Twitter/@isro

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Dr. Suzanne Bell, Lead for NASA’s Behavioural Health and Performance Laboratory, walks through a simulated Mars exterior portion of the CHAPEA’s Mars Dune Alpha at the Johnson Space center in Houston, Texas on April 11, 2023. Living on Mars is not something Kelly Haston ever dreamed of as a child. Yet she is about to dedicate an entire year of her life to the Red Planet. “We’re just going to pretend we’re there,” sums up the 52-year-old Canadian. From the end of June, she will be one of four volunteers to spend twelve months in the CHAPEA Martian habitat.

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Two pictures of Uranus - one in true color (L) and the other in false color - are shown in this NASA handout obtained by Reuters January 20, 2016. The images were compiled from images returned Jan. 17, 1986, by the narrow-angle camera of the Voyager 2 spacecraft.

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Indian Navy and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) release the Gaganyaan Recovery Training Plan at Water Survival Training Facility (WSTF) at INS Garuda, Kochi. Photo: Twitter/@indiannavy

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This artist’s concept of lightning distribution in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere incorporates a JunoCam image from the NASA spacecraft Juno with artistic embellishments. Data from NASA’s Juno mission indicates that most of the lightning activity on Jupiter is near its poles.

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A new study has indicated that multiple ancestral groups from across Africa contributed to the emergence of Homo sapiens in a patchwork manner.

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, U.S. Senator and former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Canadian Space Agency president Lisa Campbell hold a news conference with Artemis II moon mission crew members Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington.

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The wall museum will showcase over 25 authentic models of technological artefacts of ISRO missions.

‘India in Space’ wall museum unveiled in Bengaluru

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