AFRL establishes one-stop shop for partnerships
Tuesday, 28 February 2023 06:33
The Air Force Research Laboratory established a new Strategic Partnering Directorate, or AFRL/SP, to achieve greater alignment, effectiveness and efficiencies in supporting partnership priorities across the Department of the Air Force's science and technology, or S and T, enterprise. The Air Force Manpower and Personnel Directorate signed an organizational change request Dec. 22, 2022, after app Commercial Space: NASA Has an App for That
Tuesday, 28 February 2023 04:35
Research balloons, satellites, and planetary landers may have little in common, but NASA has written a program that can help operate all these craft and more. This open-source software framework, called core Flight System (cFS), is similar to a smartphone operating system in that it serves as the foundation for apps developed to perform spaceflight functions. Now, Red Canyon Software Inc. is bui Gilmour Space and Atomos Space sign MoU for launch and in-space transfers
Tuesday, 28 February 2023 04:35
Gilmour Space Technologies and Atomos Space have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore a multi-year contract for Gilmour and Atomos to mutually purchase services for launch and in-space transportation.
The partnership will see Atomos contract Gilmour for launch services on its Eris and upcoming orbital launch vehicles. In addi UK companies to provide services for future Moon missions
Tuesday, 28 February 2023 04:35
The UK Space Agency has announced over 50 million pounds for UK companies to develop communication and navigation services for missions to the Moon.
The new funding is part of the European Space Agency's Moonlight programme, which aims to launch a constellation of satellites into orbit around the Moon, from 2028.
This will allow future astronauts, rovers, science experiments and ot Astronomers discover metal-rich galaxies in early universe
Tuesday, 28 February 2023 04:35
While analyzing data from the first images of a well-known early galaxy taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Cornell University astronomers discovered a companion galaxy previously hidden behind the light of the foreground galaxy - one that surprisingly seems to have already hosted multiple generations of stars despite its young age, estimated at 1.4 billion years old.
"We fo Public work begins on UK's largest commercial satellite control centre
Tuesday, 28 February 2023 04:35
Work has started on Inmarsat's new eight-floor headquarters, which will host the company's Satellite, Network and Cyber Operations Centre and feature advanced workspaces for employees - alongside games areas, a gym, a relaxation area, and a rooftop bar.
The company has been developing plans for the new space since 2019, with the lease at its current headquarters on Old Street Roundabout fi Nicola Fox named associate administrator for NASA Science Mission Directorate
Tuesday, 28 February 2023 04:35
NASA has found its new associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate in Heliophysics Director Nicola Fox.
Fox will replace acting administrator Sandra Connelly atop the Science Mission Directorate effective immediately, according to a press release from NASA.
NASA administrator Bill Nelson made the announcement on Monday, lauding Fox for the work she has done as dire SpaceX launches new Starlink 'V2 Mini' satellites into orbit
Tuesday, 28 February 2023 04:35
SpaceX launched 21 upgraded "V2 Mini" Starlink Internet satellites from Florida's Cape Canaveral on Monday, to boost capacity for the global broadband network.
SpaceX announced "Liftoff!" in a tweet at 6:16 p.m. EST, showing the Falcon 9 rocket lift off from pad 40 against the sunset. The launch was delayed earlier Monday to allow radiation levels to drop following a solar storm. Seeing triple
Tuesday, 28 February 2023 04:00
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This observation from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the massive galaxy cluster RX J2129. Due to Gravitational lensing, this observation contains three different images of the same supernova-hosting galaxy, which you can see in closer detail here. Gravitational lensing occurs when a massive celestial body causes a sufficient curvature of spacetime to bend the path of light travelling past or through it, almost like a vast lens. In this case, the lens is the galaxy cluster RX J2129, located around 3.2 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. Gravitational lensing can
U.S. Army extends Maxar’s contract for 3D geospatial data
Monday, 27 February 2023 20:09
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Heliophysics director named NASA associate administrator for science
Monday, 27 February 2023 19:28
NASA has selected the head of its heliophysics division as its new associate administrator for science, responsible for a $7.8 billion portfolio of more than 100 missions.
Air Force navigation satellite to launch on Vulcan’s first national security mission
Monday, 27 February 2023 18:46
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Mitsubishi makes strategic investment in Astroscale’s $76 million funding round
Monday, 27 February 2023 18:43
Astroscale said Feb. 27 it has raised $76 million from investors including satellite maker Mitsubishi Electric, which plans to add docking plates to Japanese national security spacecraft to make them compatible with the debris removal venture’s servicers.
Antarctic Peninsula glaciers on the run
Monday, 27 February 2023 15:00
Like many places, the Antarctic Peninsula is falling victim to rising temperatures. However, when scientists used radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission acquired between 2014 and 2021, they were taken aback to discover just how the fast 105 glaciers on the west coast are flowing in the summer months.