SpaceX's next private astronaut launch to ISS, Ax-4, pushed back to June 10
ispace Resilience probe landing on the moon June 5 | SpaceX's next private astronaut launch delayed to June 10 | Japan's private ispace probe aims for moon landing
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Currently, ispace's Resilience moon lander is scheduled to land on Thursday, June 5, at 3:17 p.m. EDT (1817 GMT), though it will be 4:17 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Friday, June 6, at touchdown time. That landing time follows a specific timeline of events ispace has laid out to deliver Resilience to the lunar surface. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Resilience toward the moon on Jan. 15
The next astronaut launch to the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed again. That liftoff - which will kick off Ax-4, the fourth crewed mission by Houston company Axiom Space -- had been scheduled for this coming Sunday (June 8). But that's no longer the plan. Axiom Space announced via X that the new target is next Tuesday (June 10). The four-astronaut mission will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida that day at 8:22 a.m. EDT (1222 GMT).
Success would be huge for ispace and for Japan, which has just one soft lunar landing on its books to date — that of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's SLIM spacecraft, which touched down just last year. It would also be a big milestone for commercial spaceflight, which has increasingly set its sights on the moon.
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A new artificial intelligence program could revolutionize our understanding of binary star systems, deeply reducing the time it takes to distinguish the characteristics of their stars. With this program, what typically takes an entire month could be done in just 10 minutes. The system, a neural network called PHOEBAI, could therefore revolutionize the process of assessing these twin star systems and determining stellar qualities such as mass and size, thus relieving a bottleneck of hundreds of thousands of potential binaries currently waiting to be analyzed.
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