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Benchmark to keep popular orbits safer with collision avoidance kit
With the most popular, revenue-generating orbits increasingly congested, Benchmark Space Systems has unveiled a breakthrough Collision Avoidance (ColA) Kit, featuring its heritage propulsion technology in a condensed package, that is easily and affordably deployed aboard electric propulsion (EP) and non-propulsive microsatellites and OTVs to help them quickly steer clear of approaching spacecraf NASA Announces New CubeSat Launch Initiative Partnership Opportunities
NASA has announced a new round of opportunities through the agency's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) for CubeSat developers, including educational institutions, to conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations in space and contribute to the agency's exploration goals.
"Small satellites, such as CubeSats play a valuable role in the agency's educational, science, and techn Keeping space centre’s cool
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Keeping space centre’s cool Exposed! International Space Station tests organisms, materials in space
Space may look empty, but it contains extreme temperatures, high levels of background radiation, micrometeoroids, and the unfiltered glare of the sun. In addition, materials and equipment on the outside of the International Space Station are exposed to atomic oxygen (AO) and other charged particles as it orbits the Earth at the very edge of our atmosphere.
First of NASA's SunRISE SmallSats rolls off production line
Six of NASA's SunRISE small satellites will work together, creating the largest radio telescope ever launched to detect and track hazardous explosive space weather events.
Building a 6-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) telescope in space may sound like science fiction. But through the combined power of six toaster-size satellites, that's what NASA's SunRISE will be: a huge radio telescope in orbit that will help deepen scientists' understanding of explosive space weather events.
Invitation to media – Viewing Europe’s MTG-I weather satellite before launch in Cannes
Call for Media: view MTG-I weather satellite before launch
Madrid meteor's cometary origins unearthed
Tracking marine plastic drift from space
Every 60 seconds the equivalent of a lorry-load of plastic enters the global ocean. Where does it end up? Right now, researchers simply don’t know. But in a bid to help find out, an ESA-led project developed floating transmitters whose passage can be tracked over time, helping in turn to guide a sophisticated software model of marine plastic litter accumulation.
China receives data from newly launched ecosystem monitoring satellite
China has received data from its newly launched terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satellite, scientists in charge of receiving the satellite data said.
The satellite was carried into space on Thursday by a Long March-4B rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi province.
Since Thursday night, ground stations located in Beijing and Xinjiang Uygur au Northrop Grumman SBIRS GEO-6 Payload Launched in Support of US Space Force
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has played a vital role in the successful deployment of the missile warning satellite for the U.S. Space Force's sixth and final mission in the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO)-6 program series.
Working in partnership with prime contractor Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman designed and built the mission payload, whi