Making airfield assessments automatic, remote, and safe
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 10:01
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 14, 2025
In 2022, Randall Pietersen, a civil engineer in the U.S. Air Force, set out on a training mission to assess damage at an airfield runway, practicing "base recovery" protocol after a simulated attack. For hours, his team walked over the area in chemical protection gear, radioing in geocoordinates as they documented damage and looked for threats like unexploded munitions.
The work is standar
In 2022, Randall Pietersen, a civil engineer in the U.S. Air Force, set out on a training mission to assess damage at an airfield runway, practicing "base recovery" protocol after a simulated attack. For hours, his team walked over the area in chemical protection gear, radioing in geocoordinates as they documented damage and looked for threats like unexploded munitions.
The work is standar NASA Super Pressure Balloons Return to New Zealand for Test Flights
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 10:01
Wallops Island VA (SPX) Mar 17, 2025
NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wanaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the agency's super pressure balloon technology. These stadium-sized, heavy-lift balloons will travel the Southern Hemisphere's mid-latitudes for planned missions of 100 days or more.
Launch operations are scheduled to begin in late March from Wanaka Airport, NASA's dedicated
NASA's Scientific Balloon Program has returned to Wanaka, New Zealand, for two scheduled flights to test and qualify the agency's super pressure balloon technology. These stadium-sized, heavy-lift balloons will travel the Southern Hemisphere's mid-latitudes for planned missions of 100 days or more.
Launch operations are scheduled to begin in late March from Wanaka Airport, NASA's dedicated 'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 10:01
Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2025
Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves.
New research from Stanford University shows that water sprayed into a mixture of gases thought to be present in Earth's early atmosphere can lead to the formation of organic molecules with carbon-nitrogen b
Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves.
New research from Stanford University shows that water sprayed into a mixture of gases thought to be present in Earth's early atmosphere can lead to the formation of organic molecules with carbon-nitrogen b ICESat-2's Laser Fires 2 Trillionth Shot, Spots Clouds
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 10:01
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2025
Happy 2,000,000,000,000th, ICESat-2! NASA's Earth-observing laser in orbit passed a milestone on March 9 at 12:51 p.m. EDT - 16:51:00.268 UTC, to be precise - as its laser instrument fired for the 2 trillionth time and measured clouds off the coast of East Antarctica.
ICESat-2's instrument, the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS), uses rapid pulses of green laser light and
Happy 2,000,000,000,000th, ICESat-2! NASA's Earth-observing laser in orbit passed a milestone on March 9 at 12:51 p.m. EDT - 16:51:00.268 UTC, to be precise - as its laser instrument fired for the 2 trillionth time and measured clouds off the coast of East Antarctica.
ICESat-2's instrument, the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS), uses rapid pulses of green laser light and Stuck astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally on their way back to Earth
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ESA Impact: Top 2025 space photos so far
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Nighthawk: A proposed Mars chopper mission over glaciers and canyons
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Biomass out of the box TOI-1453 system hosts contrasting super-Earth and low-mass sub-Neptune
Monday, 17 March 2025 09:34
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 17, 2025
Astronomers have identified two planets orbiting the star TOI-1453, located approximately 250 light years from Earth in the constellation Draco. The system, which includes a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, provides an intriguing opportunity to study planetary types that are prevalent across the galaxy but missing from our own solar system. The discovery offers promising avenues for future explora
Astronomers have identified two planets orbiting the star TOI-1453, located approximately 250 light years from Earth in the constellation Draco. The system, which includes a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, provides an intriguing opportunity to study planetary types that are prevalent across the galaxy but missing from our own solar system. The discovery offers promising avenues for future explora EZIE satellites begin mission to map Earth's auroral electrojets
Monday, 17 March 2025 09:34
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2025
NASA's Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) mission is now in space and preparing to study powerful electric currents in Earth's upper atmosphere following a successful launch and satellite deployment. Liftoff took place at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14, 2025, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, with the deployment of all three CubeSats completed around 2 a.m. PDT the next day.
NASA's Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) mission is now in space and preparing to study powerful electric currents in Earth's upper atmosphere following a successful launch and satellite deployment. Liftoff took place at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14, 2025, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, with the deployment of all three CubeSats completed around 2 a.m. PDT the next day. ICEYE expands satellite fleet with latest launch and unveils advanced Gen4 imaging system
Monday, 17 March 2025 09:34
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2025
ICEYE, a global frontrunner in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite-based Earth Observation and disaster monitoring, has deployed four new satellites, each equipped with 25 cm resolution capabilities. This latest launch strengthens ICEYE's already unmatched SAR constellation, further advancing its capacity to support natural disaster response and national security missions. Notably, the laun
ICEYE, a global frontrunner in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite-based Earth Observation and disaster monitoring, has deployed four new satellites, each equipped with 25 cm resolution capabilities. This latest launch strengthens ICEYE's already unmatched SAR constellation, further advancing its capacity to support natural disaster response and national security missions. Notably, the laun SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites 12 hours after Crew-10 sent to ISS
Monday, 17 March 2025 09:34
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 15, 2025
SpaceX launched another batch of Starlik satellites into orbit Saturday morning, a little more than 12 hours after the private company teamed up with NASA to send four astronauts to the International Space Station - also from Florida.
In addition, SpaceX sent 74 satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base on a rideshare mission called Transporter 13 late Friday from California.
SpaceX launched another batch of Starlik satellites into orbit Saturday morning, a little more than 12 hours after the private company teamed up with NASA to send four astronauts to the International Space Station - also from Florida.
In addition, SpaceX sent 74 satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base on a rideshare mission called Transporter 13 late Friday from California. Varda launches third space capsule to advance hypersonic navigation tech
Monday, 17 March 2025 09:34
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2025
Varda Space Industries, Inc., a company focused on microgravity-enabled life sciences and atmospheric reentry solutions, has successfully deployed its third orbital capsule, W-3, marking its second mission of the year. This achievement follows closely on the heels of its W-2 mission, which safely touched down in Australia on February 27, 2025.
The W-3 spacecraft, mounted on a Rocket Lab Pi
Varda Space Industries, Inc., a company focused on microgravity-enabled life sciences and atmospheric reentry solutions, has successfully deployed its third orbital capsule, W-3, marking its second mission of the year. This achievement follows closely on the heels of its W-2 mission, which safely touched down in Australia on February 27, 2025.
The W-3 spacecraft, mounted on a Rocket Lab Pi