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HTV‑X1 is cargo spacecraft, scheduled to depart Friday, March 6. It is a joint Mission by  NASA and its international partners, JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s). The HTV-X1 spacecraft will remain in orbit for more than three months acting as a scientific platform for JAXA’s experiments. Following the deorbit command, the spacecraft will dispose of several thousand pounds of trash during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, where it will burn up harmlessly. The spacecraft arrived at the space station on Oct. 29, 2025, after launching Oct. 25 on an H3 rocket from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center.  NASA News

  NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory began its 24-month primary science mission on March 1. The spacecraft, launched in September 2025, will focus its full efforts on studying Earth’s exosphere, the vast cloud of hydrogen that forms the outermost part of our atmosphere.  Carruthers launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 24, 2025, and reached its target orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point on Jan. 8. From its vantage point at L1, about 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth toward the Sun, Carruthers has a constant view of Earth’s exosphere. Hydrogen atoms in the exosphere emit a bright ultraviolet glow, known as the geocorona, when they are illuminated by the Sun. Carruthers carries two ultraviolet imagers, one with a wide field of view and one with a narrow field, that together will capture images of the geocorona, revealing details that are otherwise invisibl...

A  UN Body  has approved the first credits to be issued under the UN carbon market established by the Paris Agreement.  The approved activity is a clean‑cooking project in Myanmar, which distributes efficient cookstoves that reduce harmful household air pollution and lessen pressure on local forests.   The project is coordinated with authorized participants from the Republic of Korea.   Credits authorized for use in Korea can be transferred to Korean entities for use in the Korean Emissions Trading System, contributing to the Republic of Korea’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). The remainder will be used by Myanmar toward its own NDC.  Article 6.4  creates a UNFCCC-supervised crediting mechanism—referred to by the UNFCCC as the  Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism  (PACM)—that registers mitigation activities and issues units (A6.4ERs), including provisions such as a share of...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Denmark for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of HIV and syphilis, recognizing the country's sustained commitment to ensuring every child is born free of these infections. The validation, based on an assessment by WHO's Regional Validation Committee in June 2025 and Global Validation Advisory Committee (GVAC) in August 2025, confirms that Denmark met all required targets from 2021 to 2024, including low transmission rates and high coverage of prenatal testing and treatment for pregnant women. Denmark joins 22 other countries and territories validated by WHO for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis or hepatitis B virus, or certified on the path to elimination, along with Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Belarus, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Botswana, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Jamaica, Malaysia, Maldives, Montserrat, Namibia, Oman, Republic of Moldova, Saint Vincent and th...