DARPA seeks AI tools to automate tracking of satellite sensor data
Friday, 26 May 2023 15:22
BAE Systems won a $7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop AI tools to automate the tracking of data collected by military satellites.
Software problem blamed for ispace lunar lander crash
Friday, 26 May 2023 15:08
A software glitch kept a lunar lander from properly determining its altitude, leading to a crash on its landing attempt last month, Japanese company ispace announced May 26.
Over the moon: Dedication to lunar research pays off for China's Chang'e project
Friday, 26 May 2023 14:10
Since 2004, China has been pioneering many aspects of lunar exploration with the Chang'e project, of which all five missions were successful in obtaining new information about the moon.
China has been leading the advancement of lunar research and understanding with their Chang'e project since 2004 with no signs of slowing down. The information obtained from Chang'e missions has given humans a much deeper understanding of the moon, including the composition of its surface material, the moon's history and evolution, and mastering the three phases of unmanned lunar exploration: orbiting, landing, and returning. Gaining a more thorough understanding of the moon and its components can help with establishing research facilities on the moon to uncover more answers about Earth's only satellite.
L3Harris wins $80 million Air Force contract for satcom experiments
Friday, 26 May 2023 13:59
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded L3Harris Technologies a contract worth $80.8 million to conduct communications experiments using multiple commercial space internet services.
Juice deployments complete: final form for Jupiter
Friday, 26 May 2023 13:29
Flight controllers at ESA’s mission control centre in Germany have been busy this week, working with instrument teams on the final deployments to prepare ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) for exploring Jupiter.
Tree planting for the Huginn mission
Friday, 26 May 2023 12:54
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Tree planting for the Huginn mission Week in images: 22-26 May 2023
Friday, 26 May 2023 11:22
Week in images: 22-26 May 2023
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SpaceX investment in Starship approaches $5 billion
Friday, 26 May 2023 10:18
SpaceX will have spent $5 billion or more on its Starship vehicle and launch infrastructure by the end of this year, according to court filings and comments by the company’s chief executive.
Rocket Lab launches second batch of TROPICS satellites for NASA
Friday, 26 May 2023 09:56
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has successfully completed the second of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of tropical cyclone monitoring satellites for NASA.
The Coming To A Storm Near You launch lifted-off on May 26 at 15:46 NZST (03:46 UTC) from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula, deploying the final two CubeSats of NASA's TROPICS co Intuitive Machines Lunar Landing Site Moves to South Pole
Friday, 26 May 2023 09:56
NASA, in cooperation with Intuitive Machines, is moving the landing site for the first Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) mission to Moon's South Pole as an important first step in managing risks for future Artemis landings.
One of the first lunar payload deliveries under NASA's CLPS initiative was awarded to Intuitive Machines in May 2019. The company's first flight, Intuitive Machi Terran Orbital Announces $37.1 Million Registered Direct Offering
Friday, 26 May 2023 09:56
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has entered into a definitive securities purchase agreement for the purchase and sale of 29,000,000 shares of the Company's common stock (or common stock equivalents) and warrants to purchase 29,000,000 shares of common stock at a combined purchase price of $1.28 per share of common stock (or common stock equivalent) and accompanying warrant in a registere The search for habitable planets expands
Friday, 26 May 2023 09:56
A University of Michigan astronomer and his team are suggesting a new way to expand the search for habitable planets that takes into account a zone not previously considered: the space between the star and what's called soot-line in planet-forming disks.
Worlds that form in this region-a disk of dust rotating around a central star from which planets may be built-could have surfaces rich in Study doubles the number of known repeating fast radio bursts
Friday, 26 May 2023 09:56
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are repeating flashes of radio waves that remain a source of mystery to astronomers. We do know a few things about them: FRBs originate from far outside the Milky Way, for instance, and they're probably produced from the cinders of dying stars. While many astronomical radio waves have been observed to have burst only once, some waves have been seen bursting multiple time Solar Foods one of the Phase II winners of NASA Deep Space Food Challenge
Friday, 26 May 2023 09:56
A panel of Judges has selected Solar Foods' Solein?-producing technology as one of the winners of the Phase II of Deep Space Food Challenge. The challenge, launched in January 2021 by NASA and their Canadian counterpart organization CSA, seeks innovations to feed astronauts on long space missions.
The Deep Space Food Challenge sets strict requirements for all competitors: each concept must The Huginn mission - an overview
Friday, 26 May 2023 09:56
ESA Astronaut Andreas Mogensen will fly to the International Space Station for his second mission called Huginn, in late summer of 2023. It will be a mission of firsts for both Andreas and ESA.
The Huginn mission name, chosen by Andreas, originates in Norse mythology with Huginn and Muninn - the two raven accomplices of the god Odin. The two ravens symbolise the human mind, with Huginn rep