US launches satellite to better prepare for space weather
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 07:28
The United States on Tuesday launched a new satellite expected to significantly improve forecasts of solar flares and coronal mass ejections - huge plasma bubbles that can crash into Earth, disrupting power grids and communications.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the satellite into orbit took off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:26 pm (2126 GMT), the US space agency a World not ready for climate change-fuelled wildfires: experts
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 07:28
The world is unprepared for the increasing ferocity of wildfires turbocharged by climate change, scientists say, as blazes from North America to Europe greet the northern hemisphere summer in the hottest year on record.
Wildfires have already burned swathes through Turkey, Canada, Greece and the United States early this season as extreme heatwaves push temperatures to scorching highs.
Wh Controlling magnetite with light
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 07:28
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 25, 2024
"Some time ago, we showed that it is possible to induce an inverse phase transition in magnetite," says physicist Fabrizio Carbone at EPFL. "It's as if you took water and you could turn it into ice by putting energy into it with a laser. This is counterintuitive as normally to freeze water you cool it down, i.e. remove energy from it."
Carbone has led a DLR opens new research facility for climate-friendly shipping in Kiel
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 07:28
The maritime sector accounts for about 80 percent of international freight transport, emitting approximately 1.1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide annually. The Institute of Maritime Energy Systems at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) aims to change this by developing systems for emission-free ship operations. This includes alternative fuel transport concepts, harbor infrastructure requirements, Time to build zero-debris satellites
Wednesday, 26 June 2024 07:00
ESA is committed to deliver on the promise of Zero Debris by 2030. To ensure compliant satellites can be designed and built in time, ESA is supporting industry during this technologically challenging transition.
On 25 June 2024, three major European space industry players each signed a contract with ESA to develop large low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite platforms that conform to Zero Debris standards.
NASA successfully launches GOES-U weather satellite on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy
Tuesday, 25 June 2024 20:09
The final GOES-U satellite successfully launched Tuesday from Cape Canaveral in Florida to aid efforts to track and forecast weather amid changing climate conditions across the globe.
Launch time was at 5:26 p.m. EDT with 2.8 million pounds of propellent fueling all 27 Merlin engines at 5.1 million pounds of thrust.
The mission launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch China's Chang'e-6 mission successfully returns to Earth with historic moon samples
Tuesday, 25 June 2024 20:09
China's Chang'e-6 mission successfully returned to Earth early Tuesday, bringing with it the first-ever samples retrieved from the far side of the moon.
The Chang'e-6 return capsule successfully landed in the Siziwang Banner area of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at 2:07 p.m. local time, the China National Space Administration said in a statement.
"This marks the comple Astrobotic reveals lunar surface proving ground for payload testing
Tuesday, 25 June 2024 20:09
Astrobotic has unveiled its Lunar Surface Proving Ground (LSPG) at its Mojave, CA facility. The 100mx100m high-fidelity 3D test field replicates the Moon's surface topography and optical properties.
The LSPG's terrain is based on a map of the Moon's South Pole, scanned by Astrobotic's LunaRay system. This site will support various test campaigns, including precise lunar landing technologie Space Force seeks bids for ‘Resilient GPS’ satellite program
Tuesday, 25 June 2024 16:39
Researchers develop MoonIndex, open-source software that allows study of lunar surface
Tuesday, 25 June 2024 14:16
With MoonIndex, researchers from Constructor University and the National Institute of Astrophysics in Italy have developed an open-source software that for the first time gives scientists access to a free tool that creates science-ready products from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) to study the composition of the lunar surface. It also enables a wide range of applications.
An article now published in the specialist journal Earth and Space Science describes the research success.
"Spectral indices are a key product to understanding and mapping planetary surfaces," said Javier Eduardo Suárez Valencia, Ph.D. student at Constructor University and first author of the article.
Each surface has a very special, individual reflectance pattern, a kind of spectral fingerprint. It provides information about the presence of certain minerals in rocks or about the physical properties of the surface.
The Missing Piece of Satellite’s Multi-Orbit Ambitions: A Big-picture Vision
Tuesday, 25 June 2024 12:00
Predicting changes inside astronauts' bodies during space travel through blood sample analysis
Tuesday, 25 June 2024 11:08
Airbus takes a charge of nearly $1 billion on space programs
Tuesday, 25 June 2024 10:39
