Copernicus Sentinel-2 helps explorers unearth rare meteorite

Beijing (XNA) Feb 20, 2023
China has released a new batch of datasets from the payloads installed on the Chang'e-4 probe on the official website of the Lunar and Planetary Data Release System. The datasets include 3,991.1 MB of 803 data files obtained by the four scientific payloads on the Chang'e-4 lander and rover between December 26, 2021 and January 10, 2022. The Chang'e-4 probe, launched on Dec 8, 2018, m

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2023
The team was eagerly awaiting our downlink this morning to hear how the drill attempt from Sol 3742 went. The images came down and indeed there was a drill hole... a mini drill hole... and sadly not deep enough to get to a sufficient depth for the drill assembly to start collecting sample. This was our fourth attempt to drill this marker band, and we gave it our best shot from both a geology and

Miami FL (SPX) Feb 20, 2023
Fortuna Investments ("Fortuna"), a venture capital and advisory firm founded by Justus Parmar, is pleased to announce its expansion to the U.S. market with the opening of an office in Miami Beach, Florida. From this strategic vantage point, the firm plans to invest in companies and entrepreneurs in both the burgeoning space industry as well as clean-tech and other emerging industries. In c

Aalborg, Denmark (SPX) Feb 20, 2023
GomSpace, a satellite company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NuSpace Pte. Ltd, a Singapore-based company providing space-based infrastructure services. The partnership will allow the parties to develop space projects in Singapore, leveraging NuSpace's expertise in satellite as a service and GomSpace's experience in delivering space missions and equipment. The combinat

Abu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Feb 20, 2023
Yahsat, the UAE-based satellite communications company, has completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for its Thuraya 4-NGS Programme's Next Generation Service Platform and Broadband Products. This development marks a crucial milestone in the ongoing transformation of Thuraya 4-NGS, an initiative that has become integral to Yahsat's growth strategy and the advancement of its mobility satcom bus

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Feb 20, 2023
stc Group and Omnispace have signed of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop space-based 5G mobile communications voice and data services. stc will leverage the Omnispace 3GPP-compliant non-terrestrial network (NTN), offering customers cost-effective global connectivity beyond its existing cellular land-based network. The initiative would expand stc's coverage areas to include und

Beijing (XNA) Feb 20, 2023
A China-Europe joint space mission, Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE), has successfully completed a satellite-rocket test, according to the National Space Science Center (NSSC) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). A Chinese satellite team from the SMILE mission recently traveled to the European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC) of the European Spa

Space Coast FL (SPX) Feb 16, 2023
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded Babcock International Group a six-year contract to manage and operate Skynet, the MOD's military satellite communications system, on February 15. The contract is called Skynet Service Delivery Wrap (SDW), it is valued at 400 million pounds ($486.6 million), and it is expected to support 400 jobs in Corsham, Bristol, and Plymouth, U

Moscow (AFP) Feb 21, 2023
Russia's space agency on Tuesday said that the crew stuck on the International Space Station because of a damaged capsule were now expected to return to Earth in September, a year after they first launched into orbit. Russian cosmonauts Dmitry Petelin and Sergei Prokopyev and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio flew to the ISS in September 2022 aboard a Soyuz MS-22 capsule. They were scheduled to