NASA selects potential lunar landing sites for Artemis 3
Friday, 19 August 2022 20:17
NASA has selected 13 regions around the south pole of the moon that it is considering for the first crewed landing of the Artemis program later this decade.
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After 45 years, the 5-billion-year legacy of the Voyager 2 interstellar probe is just beginning
Friday, 19 August 2022 17:11
On August 20 1977, 45 years ago, an extraordinary spacecraft left this planet on a journey like no other. Voyager 2 was going to show us, for the first time, what the outer solar system planets looked like close-up. It was like sending a fly to New York City and asking it to report back.
Voyager 1 was launched after Voyager 2, on September 5. Attached to the flank of each Voyager was a Golden Record carrying greetings, sounds, images and music from Earth.
The spacecraft were more or less twins, but they had different trajectories and scientific instruments. While both flew by Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 then sped onwards to interstellar space. Voyager 2 tarried to make the only visit ever to the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune.
Where exactly will astronauts land on the moon? NASA is going to tell us
Friday, 19 August 2022 16:11
With NASA's first Artemis mission to the moon set to launch before the end of the month, teams are gearing up for future missions with astronauts including just exactly where the next people to set foot on the moon will be leaving their footprints.
NASA has announced a news conference for 2 p.m. Friday to reveal potential landing locations for the Artemis III mission, which is still targeting a launch in 2025, but not before the uncrewed Artemis I flight slated to launch on Aug. 29 and a crewed Artemis II flight in 2024 that will send humans back to the moon, but not only to orbit it.
Artemis III would mark humans' return to the surface for the first time since Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt left the surface on Dec. 14, 1972.
The Apollo program managed six landings with two humans each for a total of 12 to walk on the moon between 1969-1972.
Op-ed | Satellite industry consolidation: is the tail wagging the dog?
Friday, 19 August 2022 15:28
Recent weeks and months have seen growing activity among satellite network operators keen to integrate the soon-to-be-available LEO-derived bandwidth with existing GEO services.
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How a scientist established a two-stage solar flare early warning system
Friday, 19 August 2022 14:55
NASA Identifies Candidate Regions for Landing Next Americans on Moon
Friday, 19 August 2022 14:07
As NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the Moon under Artemis, the agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar South Pole. NASA rocket using 'astronomical forensics' will study exploded star
Friday, 19 August 2022 12:49
A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will observe the remnants of an exploded star, uncovering new details about the eruption event while testing X-ray detector technologies for future missions.
Week in images: 15-19 August 2022
Friday, 19 August 2022 12:04
Week in images: 15-19 August 2022
Discover our week through the lens
Deep concern about food security in East Africa
Friday, 19 August 2022 11:48
The rains have failed in Eastern Africa for four consecutive seasons. That has not happened in 40 years of satellite records. Scientists and aid agencies are now alerting the world to an unprecedented level of food insecurity in 2022 for Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. With forecasts suggesting the next rainy season will also be inadequate, climate and agriculture experts are advising governments Terran Orbital delivers LunIR to Cape Canaveral for Artemis 1 launch
Friday, 19 August 2022 11:48
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) has delivered LunIR to Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. LunIR is a 6U satellite that will fly by the Moon and collect surface thermography as a secondary payload on Artemis 1 - a test mission for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS).
Offering more payload mass, volume capability, and energy, SLS, the world's most powerful rocket to date, can c Vector Space Biosciences offers tools countering stressors during spaceflight
Friday, 19 August 2022 11:48
To establish a lunar base or go to Mars, understanding how to protect and repair the human body during spaceflight is imperative. Countermeasures against diseases associated to stressors during spaceflight, such as microgravity and radiation, need to be developed quickly.
Vector Space Biosciences has developed a platform of computational solutions designed to accelerate the development of Orion Space Solutions team selected to lead US Space Force Tetra-5 mission
Friday, 19 August 2022 11:48
US Space Force (USSF) has awarded Orion Space Solutions a contract to develop three spacecraft in support of USSF's mission to advance and launch new technologies in space.
Working with partners Hera Systems, Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., and SCOUT Space Inc., Orion Space Solutions (OSS) brings together a diversified, highly capable team to build and deploy new satellites to geostationary 'Cannibal' solar burst headed for Earth could make northern lights visible in U.S.
Friday, 19 August 2022 11:48
A plume of "dark plasma" from the sun is expected to be overtaken by a "cannibal" solar burst that may cause an aurora display visible throughout large portions of the United States on Thursday.
The first "dark plasma explosion" was first seen on Sunday after erupting from a sunspot on the sun's surface at a speed of 1.3 million mph, tearing through the sun's atmosphere and creating a c MariaDB reimagines how databases deliver geospatial capabilities with acquisition
Friday, 19 August 2022 11:48
MariaDB Corporation has announced it has acquired CubeWerx, leaders in geospatial solutions, for an undisclosed amount. With the acquisition, MariaDB adds cloud-native, scalable geospatial capabilities that the company plans to offer through its fully managed cloud service MariaDB SkySQL. Applications that leverage geospatial data are truly transformative, enabling businesses to offer new produc Launch Schedule for 3rd StriX-1 SAR satellite
Friday, 19 August 2022 11:48
Synspective Inc., a SAR satellite data and analytic solutions provider, reports that the official launch schedule of StriX-1, the company's third SAR satellite.
StriX-1 has a launch window starting from mid-September (UTC). Exact lift-off target date and time will be confirmed soon.
Please note that the launch may be postponed or canceled due to unforeseen weather conditions or compl