Isar Aerospace and Spaceflight Inc sign launch agreement to service global market
Thursday, 26 January 2023 03:51
European launch service company Isar Aerospace, and U.S.-based Spaceflight Inc., the leading global launch services provider, announced they have signed a multi-launch services agreement. Under the agreement, Spaceflight secured one dedicated launch in 2026 to a sun-synchronous orbit taking off from Andoya, Norway and an option to add an additional dedicated launch to occur in 2025.
"We've UAE astronaut says not required to fast during Ramadan on ISS
Thursday, 26 January 2023 03:51
Emirati astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi said Wednesday that he will not be required to fast during Ramadan while on his upcoming space mission.
The 41-year-old will become the first Arab astronaut to spend six months in space when he blasts off for the International Space Station (ISS) next month aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Neyadi, NASA's Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg and Russia's Andr NASA safety system enables Rocket Lab launch from Wallops
Thursday, 26 January 2023 03:51
A revolutionary NASA flight safety system has enabled a new era of space transportation with the successful flight of Rocket Lab USA's Electron rocket Jan. 24, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
This mission, the first Electron launch from the United States, was enabled by NASA's work in developing the NASA Autonomous Flight Termination Unit (NAFTU), a critical piece of fligh China Compound Eye facility to monitor asteroids for planetary defense
Thursday, 26 January 2023 03:51
China plans to use its new China Compound Eye facility in Chongqing to observe asteroids and Earth-like planets hundreds of millions of kilometers away as part of its planetary defense work. The Chongqing Innovation Center under the Beijing Institute of Technology, which designed and built the China Compound Eye, recently released its first 3D radar map of an area of moon craters taken by the hi Webb spies Chariklo ring system with high-precision technique
Thursday, 26 January 2023 03:51
In an observational feat of high precision, scientists used a new technique with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to capture the shadows of starlight cast by the thin rings of Chariklo. Chariklo is an icy, small body, but the largest of the known Centaur population, located more than 2 billion miles away beyond the orbit of Saturn. Chariklo is only 160 miles (250 kilometers) or ~51 times smalle Hawkeye 360 lunches Cluster 6 satellites aboard inaugural Rocket Lab Electron flight from Virginia
Thursday, 26 January 2023 03:51
HawkEye 360 Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, announced that its Cluster 6 next-generation satellites have successfully deployed to orbit aboard the inaugural Rocket Lab Electron flight from Launch Complex 2 at Virginia Space's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. Communication with the satellit Lamborn named chair of House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee
Wednesday, 25 January 2023 22:02
Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Republican representing Colorado Springs, was named chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces subcommittee.
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New NASA safety system enables Rocket Lab launch from Wallops
Wednesday, 25 January 2023 20:41
A revolutionary NASA flight safety system has enabled a new era of space transportation with the successful flight of Rocket Lab U.S.'s Electron rocket Jan. 24, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
This mission, the first Electron launch from the United States, was enabled by NASA's work in developing the NASA Autonomous Flight Termination Unit (NAFTU), a critical piece of flight safety technology required for this mission.
Lucy spacecraft set to encounter new asteroid target
Wednesday, 25 January 2023 20:16
NASA's Lucy spacecraft will add another asteroid encounter to its 4-billion-mile journey. On Nov. 1, 2023, the Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission will get a close-up view of a small main belt asteroid to conduct an engineering test of the spacecraft's innovative asteroid-tracking navigation system.
ESA is no longer planning to send astronauts to China’s Tiangong space station
Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:13
ESA’s director general says the agency does not have the budgetary capacity nor the political intention to send its astronauts to China’s space station.
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ESA chief vows to restore Europe's access to space
Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:08
Giant iceberg breaks away from Antarctic ice shelf
Wednesday, 25 January 2023 13:45
Satellite imagery confirms an enormous iceberg, around five times the size of Malta, has finally calved from Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf. The new berg, estimated to be around 1550 sq km and around 150 m thick, calved when the crack known as Chasm-1 fully extended northwards severing the west part of the ice shelf.
This crack was first revealed to be extending in early 2012 after having been dormant for some decades. After several years of desperately clinging on, image data from the Copernicus Sentinel missions visually confirm the calving event.
Spaceflight books dedicated Isar Aerospace launch in 2026
Wednesday, 25 January 2023 13:01
U.S.-based launch services provider Spaceflight said Jan. 25 it has booked a dedicated launch in 2026 from Isar Aerospace, the German rocket developer aiming to perform the first test flight of its Spectrum vehicle this year.
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Astrobotic completes Peregrine testing
Wednesday, 25 January 2023 12:29
Astrobotic Technologies said that it has completed testing of its Peregrine lunar lander and it ready to ship it to Cape Canaveral for launch.
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Printed nerves for a satellite
Wednesday, 25 January 2023 10:10
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Printed nerves for a satellite