Beijing (XNA) Mar 25, 2022
China's Tianwen-1 orbiter has beamed back high-resolution images of Mars, showing dust storms on the surface of the planet. Released by the China National Space Administration on Thursday, the new pictures with a resolution of 0.5 meters were captured by a camera on the probe, which has been operating in orbit for 609 days at a distance of 277 million km from Earth. Track marks left

Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 25, 2022
Australia established a Defence Space Command in January this year, "to achieve our strategic space ambitions and lead the effort to assure Australia's access to space". The government also plans to spend around A$7 billion on space defence over the next decade. Many areas within defence are already engaged in space activities, but Defence Space Command will bring them together. It will ai

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 25, 2022
It all started around 13.8 billion years ago with a big, cosmological "bang" that brought the universe suddenly and spectacularly into existence. Shortly after, the infant universe cooled dramatically and went completely dark. Then, within a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, the universe woke up, as gravity gathered matter into the first stars and galaxies. Light from these

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 25, 2022
It looks like fireflies flickering in the darkness. Slowly, more and more amass, lighting up the screen in large chunks and clusters. But this is not a video about insects. It's a simulation of the early universe, a time after the Big Bang when the cosmos transformed from a place of utter darkness to a radiant, light-filled environment. The stunning video is part of a large suite of simula

Gold Coast, Australia (SPX) Mar 25, 2022
A $157 million bid led by Queensland-based Gilmour Space Technologies to grow sovereign space manufacturing in Australia has been awarded the largest Modern Manufacturing Initiative Collaboration (MMIC) grant for Space by the Federal Government. Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor MP said in a statement that the Government's $52 million co-investment in the A

Paris, France (SPX) Mar 25, 2022
Euroconsult has released the 6th edition of its High Throughput Satellites (HTS) report - its in-depth analysis of geostationary (GEO) and non-geostationary (NGSO) HTS markets including major drivers, strategic issues, competitive landscape and detailed forecasts of capacity supply and associated demand take-up. After helping reshape the satellite communications industry through their ever

A French startup has raised an initial round of funding to begin testing of solar sails it believes can sharply reduce the cost of deep space missions.

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Satellite operator Intelsat is offering a managed network service that integrates geostationary satellites, SpaceX’s Starlink low Earth orbit constellation and cellular broadband. 

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A practice countdown for NASA’s Space Launch System could cause a delay in the launch of a commercial mission to the International Space Station, a move with potential ripple effects for other missions to the station.

Shares in satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital Corp. were cleared to begin trading Monday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol LLAP, Live Long and Prosper

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