New standard will aid in development of spaceport descriptions
Tuesday, 09 May 2023 09:21
ASTM International's commercial spaceflight committee (F47) has approved a new standard that will aid spaceports in developing descriptions of their sites and capabilities, including location and contact information. The new standard will soon be published as F3610.
According to ASTM member Mark Greby, the standard will lead to spaceport descriptions that will provide potential customers a Webb looks for Fomalhaut's asteroid belt and finds much more
Tuesday, 09 May 2023 09:21
The belts encircle the young hot star, which can be seen with the naked eye as the brightest star in the southern constellation Piscis Austrinus. The dusty belts are the debris from collisions of larger bodies, analogous to asteroids and comets, and are frequently described as 'debris disks.' "I would describe Fomalhaut as the archetype of debris disks found elsewhere in our galaxy, because it h Galactic bubbles are more complex than imagined
Tuesday, 09 May 2023 09:21
Astronomers have revealed new evidence about the properties of the giant bubbles of high-energy gas that extend far above and below the Milky Way galaxy's center.
In a study recently published in Nature Astronomy, a team led by scientists at The Ohio State University was able to show that the shells of these structures - dubbed "eRosita bubbles" after being found by the eRosita X-ray teles NASA, Rocket Lab launch first pair of storm observing cubesats
Tuesday, 09 May 2023 09:21
Two NASA CubeSats designed to study tropical cyclones, including hurricanes and typhoons, are in orbit after successfully launching at 1 p.m. Monday, NZST (9 p.m. EDT Sunday).
The first pair of the agency's TROPICS (Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats) lifted off aboard an Electron rocket from Rocket Lab's Launch Compl Somewear Labs introduces a novel hybrid mesh-satcom radio and expands communications platform
Tuesday, 09 May 2023 09:21
Somewear Labs, the technology company enabling critical communications for defense, public safety and commercial teams, has announced the launch of the first multi-network device of its kind: Node. Node will revolutionize the ability for mission teams to communicate and coordinate during dynamic operations, providing a level of reliability, security, and efficient situational awareness that was General Atomics delivers spacecraft simulator supporting NASA TSIS-2 program
Tuesday, 09 May 2023 09:21
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has announced it has developed and delivered a spacecraft simulator to the University of Colorado (CU) Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) in support of the Total and Spectral solar Irradiance Sensor- 2 (TSIS-2) spacecraft program.
GA-EMS is under contract with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to build the TSIS-2 spa Latin American financial institution deploys Gilat for satellite connectivity
Tuesday, 09 May 2023 09:21
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT, TASE: GILT) reports that a major financial institution in Latin America is investing millions of dollars in Gilat's satellite connectivity technology.
Thousands of Gilat's VSATs (Very Small Aperture Terminals) are being deployed across the nation to provide communications backup over satellite, improving the reliability and robustness of the net Virginia Tech, George Mason to develop networking for satellite constellations
Tuesday, 09 May 2023 09:21
The race is on to provide high speed satellite internet to the Earth's most remote areas. New tech companies such as Starlink, One Web, and Amazon's Kuiper are competing with traditional, established "satcomm" companies such as Thuraya and Inmarsat to provide global high speed, low latency satellite internet across the globe. These new mega-constellations rely on tens of thousands of small low e ClearSpace books Vega C for 2026 de-orbit mission
Tuesday, 09 May 2023 08:00
ClearSpace has signed a contract with Arianespace to launch its first debris de-orbit mission on Europe’s Vega C rocket in the second half 2026, the Swiss startup announced May 9.
Chasms on the flanks of a martian volcano
Tuesday, 09 May 2023 07:09
Mars has some of the most impressive volcanoes in the Solar System. ESA’s Mars Express has now imaged the pitted, fissured flank of the planet’s second-tallest: Ascraeus Mons.
Hypergravity access awarded to Bolivian and Macau teams
Tuesday, 09 May 2023 06:31
University teams from Bolivia and Macau have won experimental access to ESA’s hypergravity-generating Large Diameter Centrifuge through the latest round of a research programme supported jointly by ESA and the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs, UNOOSA.
Space Force reviewing bids from satellite manufacturers for Space Test Program
Monday, 08 May 2023 23:53
The U.S. Space Force is reviewing bids from satellite manufacturers competing to produce and integrate experiments for the Space Test Program.
Ball Aerospace zeroes in on future technologies
Monday, 08 May 2023 19:41
SpaceNews spoke with Jake Sauer, Ball Aerospace’s new vice president and chief technologist, to learn how the company will focus its investments.
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Virgin to launch commercial spaceflights in June
Monday, 08 May 2023 19:19
Space tourism company Virgin Galactic announced Monday that it is resuming flights with a mission this month, its first in nearly two years, and the launch of commercial trips in June.
The Unity 25 mission will take place in late May with four company employees on board, said Virgin Galactic, which was founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, who took part in the firm's last spaceflight in July 2021.
"Unity 25 is the final assessment of the full spaceflight system and astronaut experience before commercial service opens in late June," Virgin Galactic said in a statement.
Unity 25 will be the company's fifth trip into space, defined as 50 miles (80 kilometers) above sea level.
Unlike other companies that use vertical-launch rockets, Virgin Galactic uses a carrier aircraft that takes off from a runway, gains high altitude, and drops a rocket-powered plane that soars into space before gliding back to Earth.
Propelling ASCENT into commercial markets
Monday, 08 May 2023 19:13
Daniel Cavender has worked extensively with ASCENT, the non-toxic propellant developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory.
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