Saturn images show a change of seasons as polar vortex fades
Monday, 18 September 2023 10:07
Leicester UK (SPX) Sep 15, 2023
While the UK has been experiencing warm autumnal weather, a team of planetary scientists has found that Saturn's late northern summer is experiencing a cooling trend, as huge planetary-scale flows of air have reversed direction as autumn approaches.
The new observations have also provided a last glimpse of Saturn's north pole, with its enormous warm vortex filled with hydrocarbon gases, be

NASA contract Firefly to provide radio frequency calibration services from lunar orbit
Monday, 18 September 2023 10:07
Cedar Park TX (SPX) Sep 15, 2023
Firefly Aerospace, Inc., an end-to-end space transportation company, was awarded an $18 million NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract to provide radio frequency calibration services from lunar orbit as part of Blue Ghost Mission 2, Firefly's second mission to the Moon in 2026. This contract marks Firefly's third NASA CLPS task order award, totaling nearly $230 million to date fo

CPI Vertex to provide KA-band antennas for SES'S O3B mPOWER
Monday, 18 September 2023 10:07
Duisburg, Germany (SPX) Sep 15, 2023
CPI Vertex Antennentechnik, a subsidiary of Communications and Power Industries (CPI), has been selected to provide high-performance Ka-band antenna systems to SES for its O3b mPOWER communications system. These ground-based 5.5 meter Ka-band "plug and play" series tracking antennas will be used for O3b mPOWER Gateway systems.
The O3b mPOWER system is SES's second-generation medium Earth o

The young age of permanently shadowed areas on the Moon
Monday, 18 September 2023 10:07
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 15, 2023
Most of the Moon's permanently shadowed areas arose less than 2.2 billion years ago and some trapped ice during the recent past, research led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Norbert Schorghofer shows.
"These findings change the prediction for where we would expect to find water ice on the Moon, and it dramatically changes estimates for how much water ice there is on the Moo

Mapping the Sun's Interaction with Mercury's Surface
Monday, 18 September 2023 10:07
Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 15, 2023
A new study maps the infall of protons and electrons from the solar wind to geographical location on the surface of Mercury, giving scientists new insight into how interactions with the Sun alters the surface and produces Mercury's very thin atmosphere.
"Studies that have examined the infall of protons and electrons from the solar wind typically map the infall to the surface in terms of ti

Successful entry into service of Eutelsat Hotbird 13F and 13G satellites
Monday, 18 September 2023 10:07
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 15, 2023
Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) announces that its two high-power HOTBIRD 13F and HOTBIRD 13G satellites have entered into full commercial service. Located at Eutelsat's 13 degrees East flagship video neighbourhood, the satellites are reinforcing and enhancing the broadcast quality of around nine hundred television channels into more than 160 million homes across Europe, Northern A

Sidus Space announces 180-Day extension on NASDAQ minimum pricing
Monday, 18 September 2023 10:07
Cape Canaveral, FL (SPX) Sep 15, 2023
Sidus Space has been granted an additional 180 calendar days, or until March 11, 2024, (the "Second Compliance Period") to regain compliance with The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("NASDAQ").
On September 12, 2023, Sidus received a notification letter (the "Notification Letter") from the Listings Qualifications Department of NASDAQ. The Notification Letter states that, while Sidus has not regain

European space loses chief of Spaceport
Monday, 18 September 2023 10:04
With great sadness, we announce the passing of Daniel de Chambure on 16 September 2023 at the age of 61, after a short period of severe illness. His loss will be deeply felt by his many colleagues and friends at ESA and by the wider space community.
SpaceTeamEurope, all united to launch Ariane 6
Monday, 18 September 2023 10:00
The successful last Ariane 6 launch system combined tests HFT-3, at the German Aerospace Center in Lampoldshausen; and CTLO1-C, at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, show the strength of European industrial and institutional collaboration. The “Space Team Europe” gets one step closer to the Ariane 6 first flight.
SpaceX seeks to throw out Justice Department hiring practices case
Monday, 18 September 2023 08:13

RIT collaboration with global team confirms, disproves distant galaxies
Sunday, 17 September 2023 05:02
Rochester NY (SPX) Sep 18, 2023
Rochester Institute of Technology scientists have once again used data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as part of the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey to change the way we think about the universe and its distant galaxies.
Jeyhan Kartaltepe, associate professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, and Rebecca Larson, postdoctoral research associate, co-au

Soyuz hatch opens, Expedition 69 expands to 10 crewmates
Sunday, 17 September 2023 05:02
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 18, 2023
The hatches between the International Space Station and the newly arrived Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft officially opened at 5:16 p.m. EDT. The arrival of three new crew members to the existing seven people already aboard for Expedition 69 temporarily increases the station's population to 10.
NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub joined the space sta

SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites in 65th mission of 2023
Sunday, 17 September 2023 05:02
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 16, 2023
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida late Friday.
The launch at 11:38 p.m. EDT was confirmed by SpaceX, which said it was the fifth flight for the first stage booster used in the mission. It had previously launched Crew-6, SES O3b mPOWER, and two earlier Starlink missions

Rockets and Porsches: rich Russians flock to Baikonur spaceport
Sunday, 17 September 2023 05:02
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Sept 15, 2023
Everyone should witness a rocket launch in their lifetime, says Yevgeniya Degtyarnikova as she watches the rollout of a Soyuz from its hangar in the vast steppes of Kazakhstan.
"Unfortunately, my husband could not come so I am fulfilling my dream and his," said the 35-year-old from the city of Tyumen in western Siberia.
"I will bring my entire family here. This is the place that everyone
