Chandra rewinds story of Great Eruption of the 1840s
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 10:11A new movie made from over two decades of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows a famous star system changing with time, as described in our latest press release. Eta Carinae contains two massive stars (one is about 90 times the mass of the Sun and the other is believed to be about 30 times the Sun's mass). In the middle of the 19th century, skywatchers observed as Eta Carinae e
First long-duration Lidar satellite mission CALIPSO Ends
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 10:11CALIPSO, a lidar satellite that advanced the world's understanding of climate, weather, and air quality, ended its scientific mission on Aug. 1, 2023. Across 17 years of operation, the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation recorded more than 10 billion lidar measurements and informed thousands of scientific reports. CALIPSO was launched jointly by NASA and the F
China launches its latest remote sensing satellite
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 10:11China on Wednesday sent its latest remote sensing satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The satellite, Yaogan-33 04, was launched on a Long March-4C carrier rocket at 4:15 am (Beijing Time), and has entered its planned orbit successfully. It will be used for scientific experiments, land resource surveys, crop yield estimates, and disaster p
Trimble and Kyivstar to provide GNSS correction services in Ukraine
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 10:11Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest telecommunications company, are partnering to install a new Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) network to provide Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) correction services across the country. Available to users as an annual subscription service, the new network will be built using Trimble's hardware and software positi
How to build better extraterrestrial robots
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 10:11Running on the beach versus a paved road can change an athlete's stride, speed and stability. Alter the force of gravity, and that runner may break their personal record or sink into the ground. Researchers have to consider such parameters when designing extraterrestrial rovers and landers - which can trawl where no person has stepped foot. To better inform this work, a multi-institutional team
Omnispace and Lacuna showcase NGSO IoT satellite connectivity
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 10:11Omnispace, the company redefining global mobile connectivity, together with communications leader Viasat (NASDAQ: VSAT) and Lacuna Space, have demonstrated a first-of-its-kind, global, open standards-based internet of things (IoT) service which could pave the way for a range of IoT and direct to device (D2D) satellite services. Omnispace successfully demonstrated its non-geostationary (NGS
Arlington Capital Partners to acquire Exostar from Thoma Bravo
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 10:11Arlington Capital Partners ("Arlington"), a Washington, DC-based private equity firm, has agreed to acquire Exostar, LLC ("Exostar"), a leader in trusted, secure business collaboration in highly regulated industries including aerospace and defense, healthcare and life sciences, from Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The Exostar Pl
Cybersecurity firm Xage gets $17 million contract to protect Space Force networks
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 09:00China narrows field for low-cost space station cargo missions
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 08:10Likely asteroid debris found upon opening of returned NASA probe
Wednesday, 27 September 2023 06:39After a seven-year wait, NASA scientists on Tuesday finally pried open a space probe carrying the largest asteroid samples ever brought back to Earth, finding black debris.
Researchers "found black dust and debris on the avionics deck of the OSIRIS-REx science canister when the initial lid was removed today," the US space agency said, though without specifying whether they definitely belonged to the asteroid.
Scientists are eagerly awaiting researching the bulk of the sample, which will require "intricate disassembly" of the probe.
OSIRIS-REx launched in 2016, landing on the asteroid Bennu and collected roughly nine ounces (250 grams) of dust from its rocky surface.
Even that small amount, NASA has said, should "help us better understand the types of asteroids that could threaten Earth."
It ended its 3.86-billion-mile (6.21-billion-kilometer) journey after touching down in the desert in the western state of Utah on Sunday, following a high-stakes, fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere.
Space Force selects university partner to evaluate classified ground systems software
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 23:03NASA offers choice of contract type for ISS deorbit vehicle
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 22:55After setting new record for responsive launch, Space Force eyes next challenge
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 21:27Listening to the radio on the far side of the moon
Tuesday, 26 September 2023 16:02There are unexplored regions of the universe—and there are also unexplored times. In fact, there's a nearly 400-million-year gap in our universe's history that we've never seen: a time before stars known as the Dark Ages. To investigate that era, researchers want to pick up a particular radio signal that can't be measured from Earth.
The first step to listening for it is a pathfinder project known as the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night, or LuSEE-Night. The experiment is slated to head to the moon in 2025, where it will test technology in the harsh lunar environment.
The project is a collaboration between NASA and the Department of Energy, with partners from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Brookhaven National Laboratory (lead DOE lab), UC Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota.