Trial by fire for Ariane 6’s upper stage
Friday, 01 September 2023 18:56
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Validation testing continues for ESA’s all-new Ariane 6 launch vehicle, with firing of its two upper stage engines to simulate the way they will have to operate together during a flight.
Pentagon unveils new website for reporting (and learning about) UFOs
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The Pentagon has opened up a new portal for professionals to submit reports about UFOs—now officially known as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs—and for the rest of us to find out about the reports that have been released.
AARO.mil, the website for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, is still a work in progress. For example, a promised online form for contacting the AARO is labeled as "Coming Soon." But the version unveiled today offers eight videos showing UAPs, plus archives for congressional reports and briefings, press releases and links to other resources.
"The website will serve as a one-stop shop for all publicly available information related to AARO and UAP," Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Department of Defense's press secretary, said today during a briefing.
Ball, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Micro Systems and Spire claim NOAA contracts
Friday, 01 September 2023 16:32
Week in images: 28 August - 01 September 2023
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Week in images: 28 August - 01 September 2023
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Globalstar picks SpaceX to refresh LEO constellation
Friday, 01 September 2023 11:32
Hera asteroid mission here
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Hera asteroid mission here 
Tiangong space station could alter perceptions of China’s space program, report says
Friday, 01 September 2023 09:42
BlackSky images complex evacuation operation during first days of 2023 Sudan conflict
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BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) released a sixty-image collection captured over Khartoum, Sudan, showcasing the never-before-seen scale of operational complexity associated with the evacuation of international civilians and key personnel from Wadi Sayyidna Airfield from late April until early May. The image collection contains high-cadence, time-diverse imagery taken as early as 5:37 a.m., Mars helicopter Ingenuity completes 56th flight
Friday, 01 September 2023 09:19 Write a comment
Ingenuity, the tiny helicopter that has far surpassed expectations on Mars, has completed its 56th flight, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab announced Thursday.
Ingenuity flew 1,334 feet, a little over a quarter of a mile, across the Martian surface last Saturday, JPL said in a statement. The tiny chopper flew at a maximum altitude of about 39 feet above the surface of the Red Planet.
"The goal of this Infospectrum expands Spire Global contract to enhance vessel-tracking capabilities
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Infospectrum has expanded its agreement with Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) is seto to acquire historical vessel-tracking data in addition to port event information.
The maritime analytics market is expected to be over $2 billion by 2028. Spire's historical automatic identification system (AIS) data and Port Events solution - which supplies live and historical vessel arrival and departure SwRI will lead Hubble, Webb observations of Io, Jupiter's volcanic moon
Friday, 01 September 2023 09:19 Write a comment
The Space Telescope Science Institute recently awarded Southwest Research Institute a large project to use the Hubble and James Webb telescopes to remotely study Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system. The study will complement the upcoming flybys of the Jupiter moon by NASA's Juno spacecraft and will provide insights into Io's contributions to the plasma environment around Ju Photocatalytic CO2 conversion for artificial carbon cycle at extraterrestrial sites
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Today, space missions mainly rely on the transportation of basic needs from the Earth, which is extremely challenging and logistically impossible when we aim to develop stations or habitats on extraterrestrial sites such as the Moon and Mars.
For example, an astronaut needs almost a kilogram of oxygen per day to sustain their life. Therefore, tons of oxygen have to be transported to build