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Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 11, 2022
Sidus Space, Inc., a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection is pleased to announce that it has received over $1.5 million in purchase orders for space hardware and services supporting four customers. The purchase orders received consist of both new orders and a modification to a previous purchase order. "We are
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Beijing (XNA) Feb 11, 2022
China always welcomes cooperation on space endeavor, as it adheres to the belief that outer space is a common treasure of humanity, and that its exploration, development and peaceful use are common pursuits of all peoples. This belief was reiterated by a blue book released Wednesday by the country's space industry flagship China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The blue
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Washington (AFP) Feb 11, 2022
Star light, star bright, the James Webb Space Telescope has seen its first star (though it wasn't quite tonight) - and even taken a selfie, NASA announced Friday. The steps are part of the months-long process of aligning the observatory's enormous golden mirror that astronomers hope will begin unraveling the mysteries of the early Universe by this summer. The first picture sent back of

Hubble Views a Cosmic Interaction

Sunday, 13 February 2022 10:32
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Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 11, 2022
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space imagery. The image shows Arp 282, an interacting galaxy pair composed of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 169 (bottom) and the galaxy IC 1559 (top). Interestingly, both galaxies have monumentally energetic cores known as active galactic nuclei (AGN), although that is difficult to tell from this
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Nottingham UK (SPX) Feb 11, 2022
New research has shown that future gravitational wave detections from space will be capable of finding new fundamental fields and potentially shed new light on unexplained aspects of the Universe. Professor Thomas Sotiriou from the University of Nottingham's Centre of Gravity and Andrea Maselli, researcher at GSSI and INFN associate, together with researchers from SISSA, and La Sapienza of
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El Segundo CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2022
Raytheon Intelligence and Space has completed Thermal Vacuum Testing of its sensor payload for the U.S. Space Force's Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared, or Next-Gen OPIR GEO, Block 0 missile warning satellites designed and built by spacecraft prime contractor Lockheed Martin. Testing was completed on Jan. 27, 2022. "Space is a dynamic environment. Ensuring our instruments are pr
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Astra team at Nasdaq

Space companies that went public in the last year only to see their valuation drop precipitously may soon become targets of acquisitions.

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The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity in a request for information asks for 'innovative approaches to detect and track currently undetectable orbital space debris'

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Commerce Department officials on Feb. 11 revealed a prototype for a space catalog and traffic software platform that would provide basic situational awareness and traffic management services.

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The devil's in the detail

Saturday, 12 February 2022 02:34
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Paris (ESA) Feb 11, 2022
Chaotic mounds, wind-sculpted ripples and dust devil tracks: this image shows a fascinating and otherworldly landscape near Hooke Crater in Mars' southern highlands. The image was taken by the CaSSIS camera onboard the ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) on 1 February 2021, and shows part of Argyre Planitia, centred at 46.2 S/318.3 E. This type of scenery is similar to 'cha

Rocket ready for record-setting role

Saturday, 12 February 2022 02:34
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Beijing (XNA) Feb 11, 2022
A modified version of China's Long March 8 carrier rocket is scheduled to make its debut flight in the coming weeks to transport 22 satellites into orbit, a designer said. Chen Xiaofei, from the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology in Beijing, said on Wednesday that if the launch mission succeeds, it will set a record for the most spacecraft launched by a single Chinese rocket.
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Long Beach CA (SPX) Feb 11, 2022
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global leader in launch services and space systems, has announced the launch window for a dedicated Electron mission for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective. The 14-day launch window opens February 28th UTC and will lift-off from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. Originally slated to launch after Rocket Lab's next mission for another cust

Sols 3383-3384: Picking Our Way to the Pediment

Saturday, 12 February 2022 02:34
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 11, 2022
We are continuing our traverse towards the "Greenheugh pediment." We passed along this area on our detour to The Prow, and our sedimentologists have a long list of imaging wishes, features which caught their eyes on the initial pass through and which we now get the chance to really examine in detail as we skirt along the base of the pediment. From today's vantage point, Mastcam and ChemCam
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Westminster CO (SPX) Feb 11, 2022
Advanced Space LLC., a leading space solutions company, has entered into a Cooperative Research And Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Space Vehicles Directorate, and the Spacecraft Technology Division to share data collected from cislunar space through the CAPSTONE mission. Advanced Space owns and operates the CAPSTONE mission going to the Mo

In Place at Rimplas

Saturday, 12 February 2022 02:34
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 11, 2022
Three abrasions and four sample cores later, the rover has finally departed the Seitah area and is embarking on the return leg of the crater floor campaign. One major difference between the "out" trip and this return trip is the pace of Perseverance's driving. As we drove towards Seitah earlier in the mission, our average daily drive distance was shorter, in part because we were doing scie
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