China tests engines for moon mission rocket
Monday, 31 October 2022 09:31China has conducted a series of successful hot fire tests for engines designed to power a launch vehicle capable of sending astronauts to the moon.
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China launches 3rd and final space station component
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Monday, 31 October 2022 07:00SatixFy completes business combination with Endurance Acquisition Corp
Monday, 31 October 2022 04:57SatixFy Communications Ltd. has completed its previously-announced business combination with Endurance Acquisition Corp. ("Endurance") following the approval of the business combination by Endurance's stockholders on October 25, 2022 and satisfaction of customary closing conditions. In addition, on October 24, 2022, Endurance and SatixFy entered into a previously disclosed OTC Prepaid Forw
Lunar landing restored for Artemis 4 mission
Sunday, 30 October 2022 21:42NASA has restored plans to include a lunar landing on its Artemis 4 mission to the moon later this decade, months after saying that the mission would instead be devoted to assembly of the lunar Gateway.
First NorthStar SSA satellites to launch in 2023 by Virgin Orbit
Sunday, 30 October 2022 15:21NorthStar Earth and Space, a company planning a constellation of satellites to collect space situational awareness data, will launch its first satellites in mid-2023 with Virgin Orbit.
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For U.S. Space Force, Raymond’s retirement marks the end of an era
Sunday, 30 October 2022 08:01The first chief of space operations Gen. John 'Jay' Raymond retires Nov. 2 after 38 years of military service
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Traces of ancient ocean discovered on Mars
Sunday, 30 October 2022 07:22A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars. The maps offer the strongest case yet that the planet once experienced sea-level rise consistent with an extended warm and wet climate, not the harsh, frozen landscape that exists today. "What immediately comes to mind as one the most significant points here is that the existence of an o
Magma on Mars likely
Sunday, 30 October 2022 07:22Since 2018, when the NASA InSight Mission deployed the SEIS seismometer on the surface of Mars, seismologists and geophysicists at ETH Zurich have been listening to the seismic pings of more than 1,300 marsquakes. Again and again, the researchers registered smaller and larger Mars quakes. A detailed analysis of the quakes' location and spectral character brought a surprise. With epicentres
Beyond Gravity wins major contract from ULA for Amazon's Project Kuiper constellation launches
Sunday, 30 October 2022 01:05In mid-March this year, Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space) was awarded a contract to develop and deliver the dispenser system for Amazon's planned satellite constellation. Project Kuiper aims to provide affordable, high-speed broadband connections around the world. Now, United Launch Alliance (ULA) has also awarded Beyond Gravity the contract to supply 38 payload fairings for its Vulcan
SpaceX California launch sends 53 more Starlink satellites into orbit
Sunday, 30 October 2022 01:05SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 53 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Thursday. The flight lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base northwest of Los Angeles and headed southeast over the Pacific Ocean in its first minutes. It was the 49th SpaceX mission of the year and roughly 75% of the flights launched Starlink satellites. Before the latest launch, S
China launches experimental satellite into space
Sunday, 30 October 2022 01:05China launched a Long March 2D carrier rocket on Saturday morning to transport an experimental satellite into space, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. The State-owned space conglomerate said in a press release that the rocket blasted off at 9:01 am at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China and soon sent the Shiyan 20C, or Experiment 20C, into its
Starshade competition challenges students to block starlight for observing exoplanets
Sunday, 30 October 2022 01:05AIP is organizing a competition for undergraduate students in the physical sciences to design a spaceborne starshade. The device will orbit Earth, blocking the light from a star and allowing ground-based telescopes to observe extra-solar planets. Since the light coming from a star is likely billions of times brighter than the reflected light from an Earth-like exoplanet, obstructing the li
NASA's Lunar Flashlight ready to search for the lunar ice
Sunday, 30 October 2022 01:05Set for a November launch, the small satellite mission will use lasers to search for water ice inside the darkest craters at the Moon's South Pole. The Moon's poles offer a tantalizing opportunity for human explorers: There may be reservoirs of water ice there that could be purified as drinking water, converted into breathable oxygen, and used as fuel by astronauts. These reservoirs are inside p
Meteorite impact provides a glimpse beneath Mars' surface
Sunday, 30 October 2022 01:05On 24 December 2021, NASA's InSight lander felt the ground shake. Its SEIS seismometer registered a marsquake of magnitude 4. Independently, a 150-metre diameter crater was photographed from orbit by the cameras of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The camera team was able to determine that it was formed on 24 December, and realised that this was the same day as the reported quake. When the two t