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Canadian radar satellite contract positions MDA Space for RADARSAT replenishment role
MDA Space has secured a $44.7 million contract from Public Services and Procurement Canada, acting for the Canadian Space Agency, to procure and deliver critical long lead parts in support of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission replenishment satellite development.
The Government of Canada has also signalled its intention to award MDA Space the full contract in 2026 to build, test, and launc Space shuttle design study maps path to breakthrough inventions
Researchers examining NASA's space shuttle development argue that the agency's design approach offers a template for creating breakthrough products that combine many interdependent features, from launch systems to smartphones and pharmaceuticals. They focus on how NASA generated internal knowledge for the shuttle program between 1969 and 1971, when engineers had to balance performance, cost, and Lower-cost space missions like NASA's ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science, but at a risk
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How to watch one of the year's best meteor showers, the Geminids
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New report outlines science priorities for human Mars exploration
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Webb identifies earliest supernova to date
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the source of a super-bright flash of light known as a gamma-ray burst, generated by an exploding massive star when the Universe was only 730 million years old. For the first time for such a remote event, the telescope provided a detection of the supernova’s host galaxy. Webb’s quick-turnaround observations verified data taken by telescopes around the world that had been following the gamma-ray burst since it onset, which occurred in mid-March.
From the Minoans to satellite metrology
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The Minoans were a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization (c. 3100–1100 BC) on Crete and widely regarded as Europe’s earliest advanced culture. They are best known for their impressive palace complexes, most notably Knossos, and for their far-reaching maritime trade, which most likely relied on celestial navigation and a detailed understanding of the constellations. The Minoans recognised a hidden order in the natural world: a force to be respected, yet also harnessed for human benefit. Their era, the Age of Bronze, marked a pivotal moment in the development of human society.
Today, our own relationship with nature must find
Space debris looms over Google's ambitious orbital AI data center plan
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud services is driving an enormous appetite for computing power, and with it, a surge in electricity demand from data centers that can rival the needs of tens of thousands of homes or even a small city. To ease that strain, some technology leaders are turning their attention to space, where sunlight is abundant and continuous, and where solar-po NASA to test commercial robotic arm in orbit to advance in space construction
NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the Fly Foundational Robots mission set to launch in late 2027. This mission will support development of in space operations that are needed for long duration human activities away from Earth and will help grow a commercial robotics sector that future science and exploration missions can use. Applied Aerospace and PCX create US flight and space hardware group
Applied Aerospace and PCX Aerosystems have merged to form Applied Aerospace and Defense, a single supplier focused on precision hardware and systems for aircraft, rotorcraft, satellites, launch vehicles, and missile defense programs across military, commercial, and scientific markets.
The combined company draws on more than 120 years of engineering and manufacturing activity in mission cri