Microchip expands its range of radiation-hardened arm microcontrollers for space systems
Wednesday, 28 April 2021 05:42
Chandler AZ (SPX) Apr 28, 2021
Deep space initiatives including planetary exploration, orbiter missions and space research require innovative spacecraft system technology providing connectivity and processing. To enable system designers better integration and higher performance while reducing development costs and time to market, COTS technologies and scalable solutions are increasingly used in space applications. Microchip T
Deep space initiatives including planetary exploration, orbiter missions and space research require innovative spacecraft system technology providing connectivity and processing. To enable system designers better integration and higher performance while reducing development costs and time to market, COTS technologies and scalable solutions are increasingly used in space applications. Microchip T Spacepath Communications to power new satellite teleport services
Wednesday, 28 April 2021 05:42
London, UK (SPX) Apr 28, 2021
SpacePath Communications has been awarded a contract for its high-power Ka-band amplifiers to power a new teleport in the Middle East. As part of the contract, SpacePath will supply amplifiers and sub-systems for a major new teleport in the Middle East. Each amplifier system will provide an L- band input, with coverage across the entire Ka-band (27.5-30.00GHz).
Using the latest 650W high-p
SpacePath Communications has been awarded a contract for its high-power Ka-band amplifiers to power a new teleport in the Middle East. As part of the contract, SpacePath will supply amplifiers and sub-systems for a major new teleport in the Middle East. Each amplifier system will provide an L- band input, with coverage across the entire Ka-band (27.5-30.00GHz).
Using the latest 650W high-p FCC approves SpaceX's satellite modification despite competitor objections
Wednesday, 28 April 2021 05:42
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 27, 2021
The Federal Communications Commission approved Tuesday SpaceX's satellite modification plan despite objections from competitors, who complained it would disrupt networks.
SpaceX made the proposal a year ago, asking to modify its plan for Starlink satellites designed to deliver high-speed Internet to consumers across the globe.
The Starlink license modification plan was to change
The Federal Communications Commission approved Tuesday SpaceX's satellite modification plan despite objections from competitors, who complained it would disrupt networks.
SpaceX made the proposal a year ago, asking to modify its plan for Starlink satellites designed to deliver high-speed Internet to consumers across the globe.
The Starlink license modification plan was to change York Space Systems begins production of larger LX-CLASS platform
Wednesday, 28 April 2021 05:42
Denver CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2021
York Space Systems has begun producing its new LX-CLASS spacecraft, a larger and more powerful platform scheduled for delivery in 2022 for a commercial constellation customer. The LX-CLASS leverages over 90 percent reuse of York's flight proven S-CLASS hardware and software design currently in use across ISR, global communications, remote proximity operations, commercial earth observation, and w
York Space Systems has begun producing its new LX-CLASS spacecraft, a larger and more powerful platform scheduled for delivery in 2022 for a commercial constellation customer. The LX-CLASS leverages over 90 percent reuse of York's flight proven S-CLASS hardware and software design currently in use across ISR, global communications, remote proximity operations, commercial earth observation, and w The company's multiple technologies support United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket launch
Wednesday, 28 April 2021 05:42
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2021
Northrop Grumman Corporation supported yesterday's successful launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV heavy rocket. The rocket launched a national security payload, designated NROL-82, for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in support of a national defense mission.
"The successful launch of this Delta IV rocket demonstrates the reliability of our large composite aerosp
Northrop Grumman Corporation supported yesterday's successful launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV heavy rocket. The rocket launched a national security payload, designated NROL-82, for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in support of a national defense mission.
"The successful launch of this Delta IV rocket demonstrates the reliability of our large composite aerosp NASA astronaut paints a picture of success growing plants in space
Wednesday, 28 April 2021 05:42
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 28, 2021
Astronauts on the International Space Station recently enjoyed a fresh supply of leafy greens, thanks in large part to the efforts of Expedition 64 crew member Michael Hopkins. NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission commander took the lead on conducting four Vegetable Production System (Veggie) experiments, with the last two wrapping up after an April 13 harvest. VEG-03K and VEG-03L tested a new space cro
Astronauts on the International Space Station recently enjoyed a fresh supply of leafy greens, thanks in large part to the efforts of Expedition 64 crew member Michael Hopkins. NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission commander took the lead on conducting four Vegetable Production System (Veggie) experiments, with the last two wrapping up after an April 13 harvest. VEG-03K and VEG-03L tested a new space cro Arianespace Vega mission set to launch EO satellites
Wednesday, 28 April 2021 05:42
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 28, 2021
On Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 10:50 pm local time (01:50 UTC on Thursday, April 29), Arianespace's first Vega mission of the year will lift off from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, with the optical observation satellite Pleiades Neo 3. The first of four satellites in an advanced Earth observation constellation, Pleiades Neo 3 was wholly funded and manufactured by
On Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 10:50 pm local time (01:50 UTC on Thursday, April 29), Arianespace's first Vega mission of the year will lift off from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, with the optical observation satellite Pleiades Neo 3. The first of four satellites in an advanced Earth observation constellation, Pleiades Neo 3 was wholly funded and manufactured by Cosmodrome project injects new life into Russian Far East
Wednesday, 28 April 2021 05:42
Beijing (XNA) Apr 28, 2021
Sixty years after Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, most Russians believe their country remains the leader in the field of aerospace.
It was no surprise when Moscow last year named its first approved coronavirus vaccine Sputnik, after the satellite whose launch in 1957 stunned the West.
A Bloomberg report said that while Russian President Vladimir Putin is not an interpla
Sixty years after Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, most Russians believe their country remains the leader in the field of aerospace.
It was no surprise when Moscow last year named its first approved coronavirus vaccine Sputnik, after the satellite whose launch in 1957 stunned the West.
A Bloomberg report said that while Russian President Vladimir Putin is not an interpla Astronomers detect first ever hydroxyl molecule signature in an exoplanet atmosphere
Wednesday, 28 April 2021 05:42
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Apr 28, 2021
An international collaboration of astronomers led by a researcher from the Astrobiology Center and Queen's University Belfast, and including researchers from Trinity College Dublin, has detected a new chemical signature in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet (a planet that orbits a star other than our Sun).
The hydroxyl radical (OH) was found on the dayside of the exoplanet WASP-33b. Th
An international collaboration of astronomers led by a researcher from the Astrobiology Center and Queen's University Belfast, and including researchers from Trinity College Dublin, has detected a new chemical signature in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet (a planet that orbits a star other than our Sun).
The hydroxyl radical (OH) was found on the dayside of the exoplanet WASP-33b. Th Physicists net neutron star gold from measurement of lead
Wednesday, 28 April 2021 05:42
Newport News VA (SPX) Apr 28, 2021
Nuclear physicists have made a new, highly accurate measurement of the thickness of the neutron "skin" that encompasses the lead nucleus in experiments conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and just published in Physical Review Letters. The result, which revealed a neutron skin thickness of .28 millionths of a nanometer, has important implica
Nuclear physicists have made a new, highly accurate measurement of the thickness of the neutron "skin" that encompasses the lead nucleus in experiments conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and just published in Physical Review Letters. The result, which revealed a neutron skin thickness of .28 millionths of a nanometer, has important implica Russia to select actress for Soyuz mission in May
Wednesday, 28 April 2021 00:30
DOUGLAS, U.K. — The Russian actress who will be sent to the International Space Station on the upcoming Soyuz MS-19 spaceflight will be announced from among four finalists on May 15, according to the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin.
Dynetics protests NASA HLS award
Tuesday, 27 April 2021 21:19
WASHINGTON — Dynetics has joined Blue Origin in filing a protest of NASA’s selection of SpaceX for a single Human Landing System award, a move that could force the agency to suspend work on the program.
Germany’s launch startups race to grow their launch manifests
Tuesday, 27 April 2021 19:59
VALLETTA, Malta — Rocket Factory Augsburg has added two more customers to its launch manifest a week after rival German startup Isar Aerospace secured its first.
Of the three German startups vying for ESA funding as they race to launch competing smallsat launchers next year, only HyImpulse Technologies has yet to announce a customer for its rocket.
Air Force secretary nominee Kendall well versed in the challenges of space acquisitions
Tuesday, 27 April 2021 18:57
WASHINGTON — President Biden has nominated former top Pentagon acquisition official Frank Kendall to be secretary of the Air Force, the White House announced April 27. If confirmed, he will be the highest ranked civilian leader of both the Air Force and the Space Force.
Eutelsat buys a quarter of OneWeb to get a LEO broadband growth engine
Tuesday, 27 April 2021 18:48
TAMPA, Fla. — French satellite operator Eutelsat is paying $550 million to buy part of OneWeb, the startup deploying a broadband network in low Earth orbit.
The company is buying a 24% stake to give it similar governance rights to the British government and Indian telecom company Bharti Global, which bought OneWeb out of bankruptcy last year.