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JPL and the Space Age: Destination Moon

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Destination Moon: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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After the establishment of NASA in 1958, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's first major assignment was to explore the moon, taking close-up images before crash-landing as part of a series of missions called Ranger. JPL, however, had grander plans.

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Capability Brown is known as the founder of landscape design. Three hundred years ago, he created some of the most magnificent landscapes in England. He travelled the length and breadth of the country, improving more than 200 of the greatest estates in the land, for some of the most influential people in the 18th century. But there is one plan that never got off the drawing board – his own garden.

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Frank.

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Rules for space-related infrastructure

New Zealand will have in place by July legislation regulating operators of ground-based space infrastructure, aimed at deterring foreign interference, the country’s Space Minister Judith Collins said. The new regulations, which were flagged at the end of 2024, come after New Zealand’s intelligence service raised concerns last September that some foreign entities had tried to establish space infrastructure, which would have “assisted foreign military activity that could have harmed New Zealand interests.“ Collins said in a statement that the new regulatory regime will start in July and will deter foreign interference in New Zealand’s infrastructure that carry out tracking and control of spacecraft, space surveillance and the transfer of data to and from spacecraft.

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