Mini satellite helps Macao students learn about space
Friday, 23 December 2022 10:56
China recently deployed a mini satellite to a low-Earth orbit to help students in the Macao Special Administrative Region learn about spaceflight activities.
The 12-kilogram satellite, named Macao Student Science Satellite 1, was released into orbit by the Tianzhou 5 cargo spacecraft on Sunday, Ho Iat-seng, chief executive of the Macao SAR, announced on Tuesday as the region marked its 23r Iridium introduces its latest IoT data service
Friday, 23 December 2022 10:56
Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM) has announced the service introduction of Iridium Messaging TransportSM (IMTSM), a two-way cloud-native networked data service optimized for use over Iridium Certus and designed to make it easier to add satellite connections to existing or new IoT solutions.
IMT provides an IP data transport service unique to the Iridium network, designed for smal Momentus announces 2nd Services Agreement with CUAVA
Friday, 23 December 2022 10:56
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), a U.S. commercial space company that plans to offer transportation and other in-space infrastructure services, has announced an agreement with the Australian Research Council Training Centre for CubeSats, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles, and their Applications (CUAVA) for the transportation of the Waratah Seed WS-1 CubeSat to low-Earth orbit in October 2023.
The Wara NASA sets table for safe air taxi flights
Friday, 23 December 2022 10:56
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Tabletop exercises allow researchers to explore options and test scenarios in fields from military strategy and cybersecurity to disaster response planning. Now, NASA is using tabletop exercises to test how electric air taxis will fit safely into the national airspace - allowing passengers to one day hop across town or to a neighboring city by using new highway 392D CTS completes its first USEUCOM-focused SPACE FLAG exercise
Friday, 23 December 2022 10:56
The 392d Combat Training Squadron under Delta 1, Space Training and Readiness Command, recently completed SPACE FLAG 23-1, which provided combat training to both U.S. and Coalition forces. SPACE FLAG 23-1, which ran from Dec. 5-16, was the third Coalition SPACE FLAG and the 16th iteration of the SPACE FLAG exercise series. 23-1 was the first in the SPACE FLAG program to exercise combat tactics i Astronomers identify the ancient heart of the Milky Way galaxy
Friday, 23 December 2022 10:56
A group of MPIA astronomers has managed to identify the "poor old heart of the Milky Way" - a population of stars left over from the earliest history of our home galaxy, which resides in our galaxy's core regions. For this feat of "galactic archaeology", the researchers analyzed data from the most recent release of ESA's Gaia Mission, using a neural network to extract metallicities for two milli Kepler's first exoplanet is spiraling toward its doom
Friday, 23 December 2022 10:56
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet whose orbit is decaying around an aging star. The doomed world appears destined to spiral closer and closer to its expanding star until they collide, obliterating the first exoplanet discovered by the Kepler space telescope.
The discovery offers new insights into the slow process of planetary orbital Astronomers may have uncovered how galaxies change their shape
Friday, 23 December 2022 10:56
Researchers may have answered a decades-old question about galaxy evolution, leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate their research.
Ever since the Hubble Sequence, that classifies galaxy morphologies, was invented in 1926, astronomers have been refining our understanding of galaxy evolution and morphology as our technology advances.
By the 1970's, research Investigation into Soyuz leak continues
Friday, 23 December 2022 00:45
As astronauts completed a delayed spacewalk outside the International Space Station, NASA and Roscosmos officials said they are continuing to study whether a Soyuz spacecraft that suffered a coolant leak can safely return its crew home.
Russia might send up rescue ship for ISS crew
Thursday, 22 December 2022 20:49
Russia is examining the flight worthiness of a Soyuz crew capsule docked with the ISS that sprang a leak last week, and might need to send up a rescue vessel for stranded crew, officials said Thursday.
The vehicle, known as MS-22, began spraying its coolant into space on December 14, with dramatic NASA TV images showing white particles resembling snowflakes streaming out of the rear.
In a press briefing organized by the US space agency, Sergei Krikalev, who leads human spaceflight programs at Russia's Roscosmos, told reporters the damage was being assessed.
NASA request information on Hubble reboost options
Thursday, 22 December 2022 20:30
NASA is seeking concepts from industry on how they would reboost the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope, a sign that the agency is looking beyond SpaceX for any mission to extend the orbiting observatory’s life.
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NASA requests information on Hubble reboost options
Thursday, 22 December 2022 20:30NASA is seeking concepts from industry on how they would reboost the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope, a sign that the agency is looking beyond SpaceX for any mission to extend the orbiting observatory’s life.
Eutelsat taking financial hit from TV sanctions against Russia and Iran
Thursday, 22 December 2022 20:05
French satellite operator Eutelsat said Dec. 22 it stands to lose up to 15 million euros ($16 million) in annual revenues from restricting broadcasts in Russia and Iran to comply with sanctions.
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Construction begins on NASA's next-generation asteroid hunter
Thursday, 22 December 2022 20:03
As NASA's Mars InSight mission comes to an end, JPL engineers say farewell to its twin
Thursday, 22 December 2022 19:42
Pranay Mishra reached down to the floor of his workplace and scooped a handful of what might be the closest thing on Earth to the feel of Martian soil.
"This is actually unprocessed garnet," he said, sifting the gray granules in his palm. Tiny ruby-colored flecks caught the light. Mixed with diatomaceous earth, a fine powder of algae fossils often used by gardeners, the coarse gray stuff makes a decent substitute for the density and texture of Mars' dirt. The only difference is that on Mars, no one has to clean it up.
"I've torn up three pairs of shoes working in this," the JPL systems engineer said with a laugh. "It follows you home. It's in your car, it's in your house—it's everywhere."
At some point in the next several weeks, a critical amount of actual Mars dust will cover the solar panels of NASA's InSight lander, which has been studying the red planet's crust, mantle, core and seismic activity since 2018. The batteries won't generate enough voltage to keep the spacecraft's instruments online.