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Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Oct 11, 2023
Space Systems Command (SSC), the United States Space Force (USSF) field command responsible for acquiring, developing, and delivering resilient space capabilities, is now accepting applications for its inaugural Project Apollo cohort. Details and on-line applications can be found at www.sdataplab.org. Project Apollo is a voluntary, collaborative tech accelerator that brings U.S. companies,
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San Francisco CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2023
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) reports that its Pelican tech demonstration satellite, Pelican-1, along with 36 SuperDoves, have arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in preparation for launch next month. Pelican-1, designed and manufactured by Planet, is the first tech demonstration of Planet's next-generation, high-resolution fleet, which is expected to replenish and improve upon Planet's existing
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San Jose CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2023
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) has integrated its customers launching on the SpaceX Transporter-9 mission and shipped the payloads to Vandenberg Space Force Base for integration with Falcon 9 ahead of launch, which is targeted for no earlier than November 2023. Momentus will use a deployer to place five satellites into Low-Earth Orbit for four different customers: The b>AMAN-1 /b> Ear
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 05:42

Finding explanation for Milky Way's warp

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Boston MA (SPX) Oct 11, 2023
The Milky Way is often depicted as a flat, spinning disk of dust, gas, and stars. But if you could zoom out and take an edge-on photo, it actually has a distinctive warp - as if you tried to twist and bend a vinyl LP. Though scientists have long known through observational data that the Milky Way is warped and its edges are flared like a skirt, no one could explain why. Now, Harvard
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 11, 2023
Imagine that you have a secret decoder ring that you can use to decipher a secret message with important clues about things around you: where they came from, why they are there, and what will become of them in the future. Now imagine that the secret decoder ring is actually a sensor that can be flown in space to unravel secrets about the matter in the solar system. Where did this matter originat
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Kanazawa, Japan (SPX) Oct 11, 2023
Since Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun among the solar system planets, it is strongly influenced by the solar wind, a high-speed (several hundred km/s) stream of plasma blowing from the Sun. Explorations of Mercury was first carried out by the Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974 and 1975, which revealed that Mercury has a magnetic field, and thus a magnetosphere, similar to that of Earth. In t
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Bay St. Louis MS (SPX) Oct 11, 2023
NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, joined with Evolution Space on Oct. 10 to announce plans for the aerospace company to establish production and testing operations for solid rocket motors onsite. "This is another great addition to south Mississippi's commercial space engagement," Center Director Dr. Rick Gilbrech said. "Evolution Space gains access to critical NA
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5 Things to Know About NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications
NASA’s DSOC is composed of a flight laser transceiver attached to Psyche and a ground system that will send and receive laser signals. Clockwise from top left: the Psyche spacecraft with DSOC attached, flight laser transceiver, downlink ground station at Palomar, and downlink detector. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Slated to launch on Oct. 12 with the Psyche mission, DSOC will demonstrate technologies enabling the agency to transmit higher data rates from deep space.

NASA's pioneering Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment will be the first demonstration of , or optical, communications from as far away as Mars.

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Want to explore Neptune? Use Triton's atmosphere to put on the brakes
Artist’s depiction of the aerobraking process of the Mars Reconnisance Orbiter. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech

Aerobraking is commonly used to slow down spacecraft when they arrive at various planetary systems. It requires a spacecraft to dip into the atmosphere of a celestial body in the planetary system, such as a moon or the planet itself, and use the resistance from that atmosphere to shed some of its velocity. That slow-down would then allow it to enter an orbit in the planetary system without carrying the extra fuel required to do the maneuvers through powered flight, thereby saving weight on the mission and reducing its cost.

Unfortunately, saying the orbital dynamics of such a maneuver are complicated is an understatement. But ultimately, for any aerobraking to be viable, someone has to do the math. And that's just what Jakob Brisby and Jame Lyne, a graduate student and professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, did for some of the least visited planetary systems in the solar system—Neptune.

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'Ring of fire' solar eclipse will slice across Americas on Saturday with millions along path
An annular eclipse is viewed from a waterfront park in Yokohama, Japan, near Tokyo, Monday, May 21, 2012. On Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse -- better known as a ring of fire -- will briefly dim the skies over parts of the western U.S.
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