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Space for a green future

For decades, satellites have been instrumental in monitoring our changing climate and improving our understanding of the processes that drive it. But to achieve our climate goals and make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, we need ideas that take the next step and begin to use space technologies to actively prevent, slow, reverse or otherwise address these changes.

Orbex to build Scottish launch site

Tuesday, 01 November 2022 22:00
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Spaceport Sutherland

Small launch vehicle developer Orbex announced Nov. 1 it had secured agreements to begin construction of a launch site in northern Scotland for its rocket that will allow a first launch by the end of 2023.

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Saudi astronauts to fly on Ax-2 mission to ISS

Tuesday, 01 November 2022 20:45
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Ax-1 docking

NASA confirmed Nov. 1 that two astronauts from Saudi Arabia will go to the International Space Station on a private mission in the spring of 2023 operated by Axiom Space.

The post Saudi astronauts to fly on Ax-2 mission to ISS appeared first on SpaceNews.

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DARPA selected Spire Global to design a small satellite for an experiment to study high-frequency radio signals in the upper layers of the atmosphere.

The post Spire selected to design satellite for DARPA experiment in very low orbit appeared first on SpaceNews.

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Hyperspectral imaging startup Wyvern said Nov. 1 it secured $7 million in additional seed funds ahead of deploying its first satellites early next year.

The post Wyvern raises $7 million for hyperspectral imaging constellation appeared first on SpaceNews.

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Northrop Grumman selected Leidos to supply infrared sensor payloads for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s missile-tracking satellite constellation in low Earth orbit.

The post Leidos selected by Northrop Grumman to supply sensor payloads for U.S.

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RS21, a data science startup developing artificial intelligence tools for autonomous space operations, won a U.S. Space Force contract to research the use of AI to predict satellite failures in orbit.

The post Space Force funds experiment on use of AI to predict satellite failures appeared first on SpaceNews.

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SpaceX nails booster landings after foggy military launch
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. Credit: AP Photo/John Raoux

SpaceX launched its mega Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in more than three years Tuesday, hoisting satellites for the military and then nailing side-by-side booster landings back near the pad.

Thick fog shrouded NASA's Kennedy Space Center as the rocket blasted off at midmorning. The crowd at the launch site couldn't even see the pad three miles (5 kilometers) away, but heard the roar of the 27 first-stage engines.

Both side boosters peeled away two minutes after liftoff, flew back to Cape Canaveral, and landed alongside one another, just a few seconds apart. The core stage was discarded at sea, its entire energy needed to get the Space Force's satellites to their intended extra-high orbit.

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Designed and delivered for the U.S. Space Force in just 15 months, the small satellite catapults the space industry into a new era of rapid R&D.

The post Millennium Space’s Tetra-1 sets new fast-paced precedent for space-based innovation appeared first on SpaceNews.

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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifted off Nov. 1 at 9:41 a.m. Eastern from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, carrying the U.S. Space Force USSF-44 mission to geostationary Earth orbit.

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Heavy payload balloon lifted to near-space heights
The balloon launch vehicle and gondola in the preparatory step. Credit: AIR

A high-altitude scientific balloon containing 1.2-ton payloads was lifted into the sky and reached an altitude of 30km in a demonstration test that helped validate the payload capacity of a near-space balloon platform.

The flight test was conducted in northwestern China's Qinghai Province on September 30, 2022, by a research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), marking a further step in the development of China's high-altitude balloon platform.

Delivering payloads from the ground to the stratospheric region known as "near-space," the balloon platform can carry tons of scientific instruments, especially large-sized ones such as unmanned air vehicles over aerial-based launches.

  • AIR lofts heavy payload balloon into near-space height
    The balloon is ascending into the sky. Credit: AIR
  • Heavy payload balloon lifted to near-space heights
    The balloon is inflated.

Surviving space: Extreme plant adaptation

Tuesday, 01 November 2022 13:47
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Surviving space: extreme plant adaptation
Arabidopsis plants—small flowering plants related to cabbage and mustard—are seen inside of Kennedy Space Center's Advanced Plant Habitat after 32 days of growth during experiment verification testing for the Plant Habitat-03A experiment. Credit: Kennedy Space Center

Which plants have the best chances for survival in space?

That's the question being addressed by Principal Investigators Anna-Lisa Paul and Robert Ferl in the Epigenetic Adaptation to the Spaceflight Environment—Accumulated Genomic Change Induced by Generations in Space (Plant Habitat-03) investigation, which will soon launch to the International Space Station aboard Northrop Grumman's 18th commercial resupply services mission for NASA.

From one generation to the next?

This investigation will take advantage of the unique environment aboard the space station to study an intriguing phenomenon.

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HAKUTO-R M1 lander

Japanese lunar lander developer ispace is in the final phases of preparations for the launch of its first lunar lander mission, a flight that will include a NASA lunar cubesat mission as a secondary payload.

The post Japanese lunar lander, with NASA rideshare, to launch this month appeared first on SpaceNews.

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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 01, 2022
Last week, during the French Space Tour organized by Business France in Australia, Arianespace and Space Machines Company announced the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to define the terms and conditions of possible future cooperation. Arianespace works on several opportunities with customers looking for direct GEO injection or specific LEO/MEO orbits. In order to provide t
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