NASA planetary science budget remains under stress
Tuesday, 03 January 2023 11:52Despite a small funding increase for 2023, NASA’s planetary science programs still face “significant stress” financially that contributed to the delay of one mission and could push back the start of others.
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South Korea's lunar orbiter sends photos of Earth, Moon
Tuesday, 03 January 2023 09:50South Korea's first-ever lunar orbiter Danuri has sent black-and-white photos of the Moon's surface and Earth, the national space centre said Tuesday. Danuri - a portmanteau of the Korean words for "Moon" and "enjoy" - was launched on a SpaceX rocket from the United States in August 2022 and entered lunar orbit last month. Its images - taken between December 24 and January 1 - show t
ispace executes second orbital control maneuver
Tuesday, 03 January 2023 09:50ispace reports that its HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander has successfully carried out its second orbital control maneuver in accordance with its mission operations plan. The maneuver was carried out shortly after midnight on Jan. 2, 2023 (Japan Standard Time) and operations were managed from ispace's mission control center located in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. This orbital control maneuver is the s
Mix a space juice to celebrate ESA's Juice mission
Tuesday, 03 January 2023 09:50ESA is kicking off the new year by inviting you to create a unique juice mocktail to represent the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - also known as Juice - launching in April. The winner of the most imaginative recipe will be invited to ESA's Social Space launch event in Darmstadt, Germany, where our favourite space juices will be served! Juice the mission will be exploring gas giant Jupiter and
LHAASO's dark matter search places tighter constraints on dark matter's lifetime
Tuesday, 03 January 2023 09:50Scientists from the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) have presented roughly 1.5 years of observational data, calculating new limits on the lifetime of heavy dark matter particles that have masses between 10^5 and 10^9 giga-electron volts. The study, entitled "Constraints on heavy decaying dark matter from 570 days of LHAASO observations," was recently published as a high
Kleos' Observer Mission Targeted for 3 January Launch
Tuesday, 03 January 2023 09:50Kleos Space S.A. (ASX: KSS, Frankfurt: KS1), a space-powered defence and intelligence technology Company, announces its four Observer Mission (KSF3) satellites are manifested to launch on 3rd January aboard the Transporter-6 SpaceX mission. The launch window opens at approximately 09:56 a.m. EST (14:56 UTC or 15:56 CET). The Observer Mission satellites will launch into a 525km sun synchron
Exolaunch to deploy Unseenlabs' latest BRO-series satellite into orbit on Transporter-6 Mission
Tuesday, 03 January 2023 04:29Unseenlabs, the world leader in space-based RF detection for Maritime Domain Awareness, has recently signed a launch services agreement (LSA) with Exolaunch, an international provider of launch services and deployment solutions, to deploy its BRO-8 nanosatellite on SpaceX's Transporter-6 rideshare mission, which is to launch no earlier than (NET) January 2023. Manufactured by GOMSpace, BRO
Revenue shortfall causes layoffs and delays at Satellogic
Monday, 02 January 2023 23:40As Satellogic prepares to launch its latest imaging satellites, the company has slashed revenue projections, resulting in layoffs and delays in construction of a new factory.
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Mix a ‘space juice’ to celebrate ESA’s Juice mission!
Monday, 02 January 2023 09:00ESA is kicking off the new year by inviting you to create a unique juice mocktail to represent the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer – also known as Juice – launching in April. The winner of the most imaginative recipe will be invited to ESA’s Social Space launch event in Darmstadt, Germany, where our favourite space juices will be served!
SPORT and petitSat cubesats to shed light on space weather disturbances
Sunday, 01 January 2023 07:24Two CubeSats, or small satellites, are on a quest to provide insight on space weather disturbances and the subsequent impact on communication signals. The dynamic duo, the Plasma Enhancements in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere Satellite (petitSat) and Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT), arrived at the International Space Station on Nov. 27, 2022, as part of SpaceX's 26th com
Planet to launch 36 SuperDove satellites with SpaceX
Sunday, 01 January 2023 07:24Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, has announced plans to launch 36 of its SuperDove satellites, Flock 4y, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than Tuesday, January 3, 2023 at 9:56 a.m. ET (14:56 UTC). Flock 4y is planned to launch on SpaceX's Transporter-6 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. These 36 Super
NASA and HAARP conclude asteroid experiment
Sunday, 01 January 2023 07:24A powerful transmitter in remote Alaska sent long wavelength radio signals into space Tuesday with the purpose of bouncing them off an asteroid to learn about its interior. The asteroid, 2010 XC15, is estimated to be about 500 feet across and is passing by Earth at two lunar distances, which is twice the distance between the Earth and the moon. Results of Tuesday's experiment at the
Artemis I Orion spacecraft returns to Kennedy Space Center
Sunday, 01 January 2023 07:24After its 1.4-million-mile mission beyond the Moon and back, the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission arrived back at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Dec. 30. The capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 11 and was transported by truck across the country from Naval Base San Diego in California to Kennedy's Multi Payload Processing Facility in Florida. Now that Orion is back at
Latest launch marks 64th mission for China in 2022
Sunday, 01 January 2023 07:24China launched a Long March 3B carrier rocket on Thursday afternoon to transport an experimental satellite into space, completing the busiest year in terms of launch numbers for the country's space industry. The rocket blasted off at 12:43 pm at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan province and then deployed the Shiyan 10-02 experimental satellite into a preset
Station crew wraps up a busy year as Soyuz review continues
Sunday, 01 January 2023 07:24Research and maintenance activities aboard the International Space Station continue into the new year while engineers and managers discuss Soyuz capabilities and potential next steps in response to the Soyuz MS-22's external cooling loop leak. The Expedition 68 crew remains in good condition, performing a variety of maintenance and research activities and looks forward to some time off on