Virgin Orbit pauses operations
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 22:00
Launch vehicle company Virgin Orbit has paused its operations and furloughed its staff for at least a week as it deals with financial issues.
Voyager Space acquires ZIN Technologies to support Starlab development
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 21:40
Voyager Space has acquired engineering company ZIN Technologies to help build up expertise needed for its Starlab commercial space station.
NanoAvionics to build three more IoT satellites for OQ Technology
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 20:08
WASHINGTON — OQ Technology of Luxembourg, which raised $13 million in September to build out a small constellation of 5G narrowband nanosatellites for so-called Internet of Things connectivity, ordered three additional satellites from Kongsberg NanoAvionics.
NanoAvionics to build three more NB-IoT satellites for OQ Technology
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 20:08OQ Technology of Luxembourg, which raised $13 million in September to build out a narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) constellation, ordered three additional satellites from Kongsberg NanoAvionics.
Engineers keep an eye on fuel supply of NASA's oldest Mars orbiter
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 19:28
Measuring the fuel supply on Odyssey, a decades-old spacecraft without a fuel gauge, is no easy task.
Since NASA launched the 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter to the Red Planet almost 22 years ago, the spacecraft has looped around Mars more than 94,000 times. That's about the equivalent of 1.37 billion miles (2.21 billion kilometers), a distance that has required extremely careful management of the spacecraft's fuel supply.
Future NASA moonwalkers to sport sleeker spacesuits
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 16:54
Moonwalking astronauts will have sleeker, more flexible spacesuits that come in different sizes when they step onto the lunar surface later this decade.
Exactly what that looks like remained under wraps. The company designing the next-generation spacesuits, Axiom Space, said Wednesday that it plans to have new versions for training purposes for NASA later this summer.
Quadsat raises $9.6 million for antenna-testing drones
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 15:56
Danish startup Quadsat said March 15 it has raised 9 million euros ($9.6 million) to expand a business that uses drones as stand-ins for satellites to test and calibrate antennas on the ground.
Recovering forests regain a quarter of carbon lost from deforestation
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 15:00
China launches classified Shiyan-19 test satellite from the Gobi Desert
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:14
China launched a new classified satellite Wednesday as part of an apparent space systems development test program.
Space Force: We expect to see ‘interfering, blinding’ of satellites during conflict
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 12:33
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Rensselaer researcher breaks through the clouds to advance satellite communication
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 09:52
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Moussa N'Gom, assistant professor of physics, applied physics, and astronomy, has devised a method to make communications between satellites and the ground more effective no matter the weather. In research recently published, N'Gom and his team used ultrafast, femtosecond lasers to cut through the clouds and rain that commonly cause losses in free-space optical QuSecure conducts quantum-resilient cryptographic communication link through space
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 09:52
QuSecure, Inc., a leader in post-quantum cybersecurity, has announced that the company has accomplished the first known live, end-to-end quantum-resilient cryptographic communications satellite link through space, marking the first time U.S. satellite data transmissions have been protected from classical and quantum decryption attacks using post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
The quantum-secu Agmatix partners with NASA Harvest to support sustainable agricultural
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 09:52
Agmatix, a start-up AgTech business specializing in turning agronomic big data into powerful models and insights, has announced a partnership with NASA Harvest - NASA's global Food Security and Agriculture Consortium - to support crop production in a sustainable way at the field level and mitigate the impact of climate change.
A combination of ground sampling and remote sensing data will b NASA virtual event showcases agency's efforts to transform aviation
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 09:52
NASA held a virtual showcase last week to demonstrate the agency's efforts in transforming aviation to become more innovative and sustainable. The event called ImaginAviation focused on different areas of aerospace development, featuring NASA's subject matter experts in each area.
One of the focus areas of the event was the use of drones for disaster response, specifically for persistent w Alaska study compares ground motion from satellites and seismic records
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 09:52
When it comes to making a rapid estimate of ground motion and moment magnitude for an earthquake, using data from Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) might be a good alternative or addition to data from seismic stations.
Researchers were able to compare how well each type of data performed in assessing the 2021 magnitude 8.2 Chignik earthquake in Alaska, as they report in the journa