Media invitation: new details about our Milky Way in the third Gaia data release
Tuesday, 31 May 2022 12:00
Media representatives are invited to join a virtual press event at 13 June 2022 from 10:00 to 11:00 CEST, to learn more about the new data set to be released by ESA’s Gaia mission.
House committee questions proposed delay in NASA asteroid mission
Tuesday, 31 May 2022 10:27
Members of the House Science Committee used a hearing about the planetary science decadal survey to criticize a proposal in NASA’s budget request to delay work on a space telescope to track near Earth objects.
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Astrocast acquires Hiber, accelerates OEM strategy.
Tuesday, 31 May 2022 09:34
Astrocast, a leading global nanosatellite IoT network operator, has announced the signature of an agreement to acquire Hiber, a Netherlands-based, IoT-as-a-Service provider. Under the agreement, Astrocast agreed to acquire all of Hiber's shares in exchange for the issuance of new Astrocast shares, representing 16.5% of Astrocast's share capital, calculated prior to its previously announced publi Omnispace Spark-2 satellite launched into orbit
Tuesday, 31 May 2022 09:34
Omnispace and Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), reports a successful launch and delivery of "Omnispace Spark-2" satellite into orbit. This marks the completion of the deployment phase of the "Omnispace Spark" program, the initial phase in the company's development and delivery of the world's first 5G capable satellite network.
Omnispace Spark-1, Axiom Space signs MOU with Italy to expand commercial utilization of space
Tuesday, 31 May 2022 09:34
Axiom Space, a leader in human spaceflight currently building the world's first commercial space station, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Italian government to further their existing collaboration, including the potential for the development of space infrastructure integrated with the future Axiom Station. The agreement was signed by the President and CEO of Axiom Space, ILC Dover becomes a provider of spacesuits for Boeing's Starliner
Tuesday, 31 May 2022 09:34
ILC Dover, the leading provider of spacesuits since the Apollo era, has announced that it was selected to be one of two providers of Boeing's Ascent/Entry Suit (AES) for the company's Commercial Crew Program and has developed a bespoke AES spacesuit for CST-100 Starliner crews.
"We are proud to utilize our expertise to create a new AES for the Starliner spacecraft," said Patty Stoll, Presi Southern Launch receives further Government funding
Tuesday, 31 May 2022 09:34
Australian spaceport and space mission provider, Southern Launch, has been awarded an Australian Space Agency Moon to Mars Grant for their mobile launch rail.
The almost $1 million grant will enable Southern Launch to design, construct, and commission a mobile launch rail that will be capable of launching sub-orbital vehicles ranging in mass from 20kg to 3,500kg. The mobility of the rocket Bern flies to Jupiter
Tuesday, 31 May 2022 09:34
In spring 2023, the time will have come: The JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) space probe of the European Space Agency ESA will begin its journey into space. The Jupiter system is almost 780 million kilometers away from the sun and an icy, dark world: The average temperature on the surface of the icy moons is below minus 140 degrees Celsius.
After an almost eight-year journey, JUICE will Solar Wind a Major Driver of Atmospheric Sodium at Mercury
Tuesday, 31 May 2022 09:34
No object in the solar system experiences the Sun's solar wind more powerfully than Mercury. The planet's magnetic field deflects the Sun's stream of electrically charged particles at a distance of only 1,000 kilometers from Mercury's surface, a point called the magnetopause.
The Sun's magnetic field lines are carried by the solar wind and bend as they collide with those of Mercury. When c Artificial Intelligence helps in the identification of astronomical objects
Tuesday, 31 May 2022 09:34
Classifying celestial objects is a long standing problem. With sources at near unimaginable distances, sometimes it's difficult for researchers to distinguish, for example, between stars, galaxies, quasars1 or supernovae2.
Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco's (IA3) researchers Pedro Cunha and Andrew Humphrey tried to solve this classical problem by creating SHEEP, a machine lear Strange neutron star spinning every 76 seconds is discovered in stellar graveyard
Tuesday, 31 May 2022 09:34
An international team of scientists have discovered a strange radio emitting neutron star, which rotates extremely slowly, completing one rotation every 76 seconds.
The team, led by members of the ERC-funded MeerTRAP (More Transients and Pulsars) group at The University of Manchester say it is a unique discovery as it resides in the neutron star graveyard where they do not expect to see an Ingenuity “hunkering down” during Martian dust storms and winter
Monday, 30 May 2022 21:26
Dust storms and changing seasons will limit the ability of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter to fly for the next several months, a project engineer said May 27.
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Space Force identifies national security launches funded in 2022 and 2023
Monday, 30 May 2022 18:10
The Space Force funded eight launches in fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Five were assigned to United Launch Alliance and three to SpaceX.
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Lawmakers seek another big increase for DoD ‘responsive launch’
Monday, 30 May 2022 15:40
A bipartisan group of House members is proposing to increase funding for tactically responsive launch to $150 million in 2023
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NASA targets June 5 for redo of Artemis moon rocket dress rehearsal
Monday, 30 May 2022 14:48
NASA discovered a bevy of headaches in its first three tries to run through a dress rehearsal countdown of the Artemis I moon rocket at Kennedy Space Center earlier this year. Now it's ready for attempt No. 4.
The agency is targeting a call-to-stations on Sunday, June 5, with a start of rollout at midnight, June 6, for the 4.4-mile, 11-hour journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building back to Launch Pad 39-B.
The 5.75 million-pound, 322-foot-tall combination of the Space Launch System, Orion capsule and mobile launcher first made the trip on March 18 on the crawler-transporter 2, after which NASA attempted several times to complete the goal of filling and draining the core and upper stage with 730,000 gallons of super-cooled liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen while also simulating a countdown but without lighting the engines.
A series of pressure and valve issues stymied any completion of those tests and NASA managers decided to roll the lunar rocket back to the VAB. That allowed managers to solve the mystery of a malfunctioning 3-inch check valve in the upper stage that wasn't working on the pad.