Paris, France (SPX) Dec 13, 2024
Space42's latest telecommunications satellite, Thuraya 4, designed and built by Airbus, has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is set to launch into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket later this month. The satellite was transported from Toulouse, France, using an Airbus BelugaST (A300-600ST) aircraft. Thuraya 4, a geostationary satellite, will enhance connectivity across

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2024
Seaspan Corporation, a global leader in independent containership leasing, has entered an agreement with KVH Industries to equip its fleet with OneWeb's advanced low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite technology. This initiative underscores Seaspan's commitment to delivering shore-like internet capabilities at sea as part of its broader digital transformation strategy, complementing the fleet's existin

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2024
WASP-69 b, a hot Jupiter exoplanet, is shedding its atmosphere over time, releasing hydrogen and helium particles due to intense stellar radiation. Unlike uniform atmospheric loss, these gases are shaped into a tail-like structure by the stellar wind emitted from the planet's host star. Hot Jupiters are gas giants that orbit close to their stars, making them vulnerable to a process known a

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2024
NASA and SpaceX have announced a targeted launch date in late February 2025 for SPHEREx, a next-generation astrophysics observatory. The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. SPHEREx, roughly the size of a compact car, will orbit Earth in

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 13, 2024
The Indian Navy and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have advanced preparations for Gaganyaan's recovery operations by conducting "Well Deck" recovery trials on December 6, 2024. The exercise took place under the Eastern Naval Command using a well deck-equipped ship off the coast of Visakhapatnam. A ship's well deck can be flooded to allow docking of smaller vessels, landing c

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 13, 2024
Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) has announced the immediate cessation of operations at the Arnhem Space Centre in the Northern Territory, citing unresolved lease negotiations. The company will relocate its spaceport to a new site in Queensland, marking a significant shift in its operational strategy. The decision stems from the Northern Land Council's (NLC) repeated delays in approving a

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2024
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse swept across North America, from the western shores of Mexico, through the United States, and into northeastern Canada. For the eclipse, NASA helped fund numerous research projects and called upon citizen scientists in support of NASA's goal to understand how our home planet is affected by the Sun - including, for example, how our star interacts with Earth

New York NY (SPX) Dec 13, 2024
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays, which emerge in extreme astrophysical environments - like the roiling environments near black holes and neutron stars - have far more energy than the energetic particles that emerge from our sun. In fact, the particles that make up these streams of energy have around 10 million times the energy of particles accelerated in the most extreme particle environment on ea

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 15, 2024
New findings from radio astronomy reveal that planetary systems form in a chain reaction, where the formation of one planet near a central star encourages the formation of subsequent planets farther out. This process mirrors the domino effect, with each planet facilitating the formation of the next. Over 5,000 planetary systems have been identified so far, with more than 1,000 confirmed to

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2024
The first-ever photo of a black hole rocked the world in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope, or EHT, published an image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, located in the constellation of Virgo. This black hole is surprising scientists again with a teraelectronvolt gamma-ray flare - emitting pho