High flying International Space Station experiment pushes boundaries of knowledge
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 17:48
Floating at 250 miles above the planet, the International Space Station (ISS) provides a unique laboratory to conduct pioneering investigations.
By being permanently in orbit, it allows scientists to carry out experiments with the help of on-board astronauts and gain new insights into challenges we face on Earth.
This April, a machine designed at Strathclyde and built by UK-firm QinetiQ, was launched from Cape Kennedy in Florida into orbit on the station for the cutting edge "particle vibration" experiment.
The station, a joint program between U.S., Russia, Japan, Europe (ESA) and Canada, is equipped with a host of modern research equipment.
The experiments needed three months of continuous activities, a period of microgravity that only the ISS can provide.
"Microgravity" removes the effect of gravity to see the effects of other forces that can be hard to reveal on Earth and enabled researchers to test the behavior of solid particles dispersed in a liquid in a variety of operating conditions.
New materials
The trial showed that by heating and shaking complex fluids—liquids that contain fine solid particles or other liquid droplets—in space's microgravity environment, new materials can be created.
With Psyche, a journey to an ancient asteroid is set to begin
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 15:20
If all goes well, on Thursday morning a NASA mission with extensive connections to MIT will be headed to a metal world.
Psyche, a van-sized spacecraft with winglike solar panels, is scheduled to blast off aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket tomorrow at 10:16 a.m.
NASA asteroid sample contains life-critical water and carbon
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 15:10
A sample collected from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, NASA revealed on Wednesday, offering more evidence for the theory that life on Earth was seeded from outer space.
The discovery follows a seven-year-round-trip to the distant rock as part of the OSIRIS-REx mission, which dropped off its precious payload in the Utah desert last month for painstaking scientific analysis.
Removal of magnetic spacecraft contamination within extraterrestrial samples easily carried out, researchers say
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:59
Tech innovations help Space Force guardians prepare for the battlefield above
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 13:00
Proteus Space raises seed funding for AI-assisted smallsat development
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 09:08
SSC wants 'Project Apollo' to accelerate advances in Space Domain Awareness
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 08:32
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, Kymeta launches first multi-orbit, on-the-move flat-panel antenna for military users
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 08:32
Kymeta has launched at AUSA 2023 - the Osprey u8 HGL, a hybrid geostationary/low Earth orbit (GEO/LEO) terminal purpose-built for military users.
Leveraging Eutelsat Group's (formally known as OneWeb) LEO satellite network, the Osprey u8 HGL is a complete, customizable solution that can be easily mounted on a wide array of military vehicles and vessels, providing connectivity on-the-move. Spire Global selected by accelerate digitalization across the maritime industry
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 08:32
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has been was selected by MAN Energy Solutions ("MAN-ES"), a global player within the marine, energy and industrial sectors, to provide weather data and real-time automatic identification system (AIS) vessel-tracking data.
According to McKinsey and Co, the shipping industry can decrease fuel consumption by 1% through optimized vessel execution and performance NASA to unveil first images of historic asteroid sample
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 07:29
NASA is set to reveal on Wednesday the first images of the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, something scientists hope will yield clues about the earliest days of our solar system and perhaps the origins of life itself.
The OSIRIS-REx mission collected rock and dust from the asteroid Bennu in 2020, and a capsule containing the precious cargo successfully returned to Earth a little over two weeks ago, landing in the Utah desert.
Evolution Space to produce and test solid rocket motors at Stennis
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 05:42
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 Source of electron acceleration and X-ray aurora of Mercury
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 05:42
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 Tracing the origin and energization of plasma in the heliosphere
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 05:42
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 Finding explanation for Milky Way's warp
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 05:42
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 Momentus customer satellites integrated and shipped to SpaceX launch site
Wednesday, 11 October 2023 05:42
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:
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