Before Europe’s first Meteosat Third Generation Imager leaves the south of France at the end of the month aboard a ship bound for French Guiana, this remarkable new weather satellite has been taking centre stage at Thales Alenia Space’s facilities in Cannes.

The FCC wants to require operators of low Earth orbit satellites to deorbit their spacecraft within five years after their mission ends, a much shorter timeframe than currently required.

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Blue Canyon Technologies delivered the first of 10 satellite buses DARPA ordered in 2020 for its Blackjack experiment in low Earth orbit.

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Adranos, a startup that manufactures solid rocket motors, announced Sept. 8 it opened a fuel-production facility in Indiana.

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Registration is now open for the 11^th annual ESA Open Day at ESTEC, open to all visitors. ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, will be open from 10:00 to 17:00 on Sunday 2 October, giving visitors a chance to meet astronauts, space scientists and engineers and learn all about the work carried out at Europe’s largest space establishment.

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Astronomers have been bemused to find young stars spiralling into the centre of a massive cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The outer arm of the spiral in this huge, oddly shaped stellar nursery – called NGC 346 – may be feeding star formation in a river-like motion of gas and stars. This is an efficient way to fuel star birth, researchers say.

The Small Magellanic Cloud has a simpler chemical composition than the Milky Way, making it similar to the galaxies found in the younger Universe, when heavier elements were more scarce.

Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space) is a key supplier to satellite constellations. New Space and commercial customers trust in Beyond Gravity for the deployment of satellites into space as well as for controlling, positioning and thermal protection of satellites in orbit.

Washington DC (SPX) Sep 08, 2022
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft recently got its first look at Didymos, the double-asteroid system that includes its target, Dimorphos. On Sept. 26, DART will intentionally crash into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet of Didymos. While the asteroid poses no threat to Earth, this is the world's first test of the kinetic impact technique, using a spacecraft to deflect an as

Austin TX (SPX) Sep 08, 2022
Albedo, a company developing low-flying satellites that will deliver ultra high resolution images, has announced a $48M Series A financing round co-led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Shield Capital, bringing the company's total funding to $58M in less than two years since inception. Participation in the round included new investors Republic Capital, Giant Step Capital, and C16 Venture