Researchers have taught a drone to recognize and hunt down meteorites autonomously
Friday, 09 July 2021 13:24
Planetary scientists estimate that each year, about 500 meteorites survive the fiery trip through Earth's atmosphere and fall to our planet's surface. Most are quite small, and less than 2% of them are ever recovered. While the majority of rocks from space may not be recoverable due to ending up in oceans or remote, inaccessible areas, other meteorite falls are just not witnessed or known about.
But new technology has upped the number known falls in recent years. Doppler radar has detected meteorite falls, as well as all-sky camera networks specifically on the lookout for meteors.
Op-ed | America’s permanent and resilient presence in space will be nuclear powered
Friday, 09 July 2021 12:30
It takes energy to travel to, in, and around space. It also takes energy to act, live, and grow. Consequently, the establishment and sustaining of a permanent human presence in space will require a resilient, long-lasting, and secure source of energy.
Swarm yields new insight into animal migration
Friday, 09 July 2021 11:40
Using measurements from ESA’s Earth Explorer Swarm mission, scientists have developed a new tool that links the strength and direction of the magnetic field to the flight paths of migrating birds. This is a huge step forward to understanding how animals use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate vast distances.
ESA resumes ExoMars parachute tests
Friday, 09 July 2021 10:34
WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency has resumed tests of the parachutes for its ExoMars lander, a system whose problems contributed to a two-year delay in the mission’s launch.
ESA conducted two high-altitude drop tests using balloons flown from Kiruna, Sweden, in late June.
FAA: New tool limits disruptions caused by space operations
Friday, 09 July 2021 07:04
Earth from Space: Gulf of Martaban
Friday, 09 July 2021 07:00
The Gulf of Martaban, an arm of the Andaman Sea located in southern Myanmar, is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.
Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin face off in space tourism market
Friday, 09 July 2021 06:18
The era of space tourism is set to soar, with highly symbolic flights by rivals Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin scheduled just days apart.
Virgin Galactic - founded by flamboyant British billionaire Richard Branson - is planning for a July 11 space flight. Blue Origin - started by Jeff Bezos of Amazon fame - is set to blast off on July 20.
The two companies will serve the nascent mar Final frontier: Billionaires Branson and Bezos bound for space
Friday, 09 July 2021 06:18
Two vessels, two companies, with one goal: blasting their billionaire founders into space.
Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos launched Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin in the early 2000s, and now both men stand on the verge of lift-off themselves, mere days apart.
The result of both an overlap in the companies' development timelines and the pair's fierce rivalry, the launches mark a milestone Space, the final frontier for billionaire Richard Branson
Friday, 09 July 2021 06:18
As famous for his thrill-seeking lifestyle and publicity stunts as for his vast business empire, Richard Branson has set his sights on the stars as he prepares for liftoff on his first space flight.
Before this weekend's mission on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Unity, the avowed Star Trek fan attributed his drive and taste for adventure to his mother Eve, who died from Covid in January. New clues to why there's so little antimatter in the universe
Friday, 09 July 2021 02:13
Imagine a dust particle in a storm cloud, and you can get an idea of a neutron's insignificance compared to the magnitude of the molecule it inhabits.
But just as a dust mote might affect a cloud's track, a neutron can influence the energy of its molecule despite being less than one-millionth its size. And now physicists at MIT and elsewhere have successfully measured a neutron's tiny effe Thousands of galaxies classified in a blink of an eye
Friday, 09 July 2021 02:13
Astronomers have designed and trained a computer program which can classify tens of thousands of galaxies in just a few seconds, a task that usually takes months to accomplish.
In new researchm astrophysicists from Australia have used machine learning to speed up a process that is often done manually by astronomers and citizen scientists around the world.
"Galaxies come in different Homemade spacesuits ensure safety of Chinese astronauts in space
Friday, 09 July 2021 02:13
China's self-developed spacesuits have ensured the safety of astronauts during their stay in the space station core module Tianhe and while performing extravehicular activities (EVAs) outside the module.
The space gears include intravehicular spacesuits and extravehicular spacesuits, according to different scenarios, said Zhang Wanxin, director of the astronaut suit project under the Astro Exercise bike in space helps keep crew fit
Friday, 09 July 2021 02:13
During a recent video sent from the core module of China's space station Tianhe (Harmony of Heavens), an exercise bike attracted lots of attention from viewers.
China launched its seventh manned spaceflight Shenzhou XII, on June 17, with three astronauts aboard for a three-month mission, during which they require regular exercise.
On June 23, astronaut Nie Haisheng opened a package c NASA orders satellite container and trolley from RUAG Space
Friday, 09 July 2021 02:13
RUAG Space, a leading supplier to the space industry, received a direct order from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and will deliver a large satellite container and a multipurpose trolley for NASA satellites. The total order volume for both container and trolley is worth approximately 2 million Euros.
b>Reusable container for three NASA missions br> /b>
From 2022 A touch of sun heats up material scieces at ESTEC
Friday, 09 July 2021 02:13
From ESA's Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory - one of a suite of labs based at the ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands - a view from an intricate test campaign for the next generation of European weather satellites.
The near infrared detector assembly of the Flexible Combined Instrument (FCI) imager aboard the Meteosat Third Generation - Imaging (MTG - I) sate