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Israel launches Ofek spy satellite

Wednesday, 29 March 2023 12:24
Photograph of a night launch of Israel's Shavit rocket.

Israel launched the latest in a series of Ofek reconnaissance satellites March 28 on the country’s Shavit rocket.

Impact Observatory, a company that pairs satellite imagery with artificial intelligence for mapping and monitoring, raised $5.9 million in seed funding.

The Making of Juice – Episode 10.2

Wednesday, 29 March 2023 12:00
Video: 00:15:59

The Making of Juice series takes the viewer behind the scenes of the European space industry, space technology and planetary science communities around ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission.

Juice has a state-of-the-art science payload comprising remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. This episode focuses on the remote sensing instruments, which will study the atmosphere of Jupiter and the surfaces and exospheres of the icy moons.

Juice’s camera (JANUS) will image Jupiter’s clouds and geological features on the moons in high resolution. The Moons and Jupiter Imaging Spectrometer (MAJIS) will observe cloud features and atmospheric constituents on

Washington DC (UPI) Mar 28, 2023
Russia's uncrewed Soyuz spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan Tuesday morning after suffering a major coolant leak in December. The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan at 7:46 a.m. EDT on Tuesday after leaving the docking port of the Russian-built Rassvet module of the International Space Station. "It's de-orbiting and descent to Earth went smoothly," Roscosmos officials announ
Herndon, VA (SPX) Mar 29, 2023
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) successfully commissioned two new satellites that began revenue-generating commercial operations within 18 hours of "The Beat Goes On" launch mission. "BlackSky has more than doubled our on-orbit capacity in the last 18 months, with enough capacity to support growth over the next two years," said Nick Merski, BlackSky chief operating officer. "Our flex

Flight 49 Preview - By the Numbers

Wednesday, 29 March 2023 09:43
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 29, 2023
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is preparing for its 49th flight on Mars, with a flight date scheduled for March 29th, 2023. The helicopter's goal for this flight is to reposition itself and conduct imaging science targets. During the flight, Ingenuity will travel a horizontal distance of 893.9 feet (272.5 meters) and reach a maximum altitude of 40 feet (12 meters), with a pop-up to 52.5 feet (

Journey to Tenby!

Wednesday, 29 March 2023 09:43
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 29, 2023
Over the past several weeks, Perseverance has traveled up Jezero's western fan and has begun exploring its upper surface, a potential treasure-trove of information about the river systems that flowed into the crater and the rocks they may have brought in from other areas! After dropping off our first sample depot at Three Forks, we began to explore further up the fan then we had ever been
H3 first launch

The failure of Japan’s H3 rocket on its inaugural flight in March could delay several science missions, including two scheduled to launch on another rocket.

Artists impression of the Eutelsat Hotbird telecommunications satellites

The first Eurostar Neo satellite built under ESA’s Neosat Partnership Project has completed its electric orbit raising to reach its geostationary position some 36 000 kilometres above Earth.

Parsec satellites

Lockheed Martin is establishing a new company that will offer communications and navigation services for what it foresees to be a growing number of government and commercial lunar missions.

Ovzon 3

Mobile satcom services provider Ovzon said March 28 it has secured a deadline extension enabling it to keep priority spectrum rights for its first broadband satellite, as long as it launches early enough in a July-September window SpaceX has set for the mission.

ESA space telescopes have observed the brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen. Data from this rare event could become instrumental in understanding the details of the colossal explosions that create gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).

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