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Gilmour Space offers tech demo satellite mission from Australia in 2024
Australian rocket and satellite builder, Gilmour Space Technologies, is offering a new rideshare mission into Low Earth Orbit - this time, on one of its G-class satellite buses (or G-Sat) scheduled to be launched in late 2024.
"We're calling this our Kangaroo-1 mission, and it will be capable of carrying 125U (or 125 units) of payload volume into a mid-inclination orbit," said Shaun Kenyon Spacecraft manufacturer Apex emerges from stealth with $7.5M in funding
Apex, the Los Angeles-based spacecraft manufacturing company, emerged from stealth Monday with over $7.5M in funding.
As the cost to launch satellites and spacecraft to orbit has declined drastically over the last several years, an exponentially increasing number of new commercial and government payloads have entered operation.
These payloads, which range from earth observation camer Planet launches nonprofit program to drive more access to timely, global satellite data
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL)reports the launch of its Nonprofit Program, an offering that provides access to Planet imagery and support services specifically for nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOS).
In line with Planet's mission to use space to help life on Earth and in effort to enable more impactful uses of Planet's data, the offering addresses two traditional challenges f Relativity Space maps path to Terran production at scale with 3D printers
Relativity Space, the first company to 3D print rockets and build the largest metal 3D printers in the world, today unveiled the latest iteration of its first-of-its-kind proprietary manufacturing platform, Stargate 4th Generation metal 3D printers. These printers will underpin both the development and rate production of Terran R, Relativity's fully reusable, 3D printed rocket that will be capab From Rome to Cannes
The Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite is currently in Cannes undergoing a series of demanding tests in preparation for launch in 2023. The third member of the Sentinel-1 radar family, part of Europe’s Copernicus programme, will continue the critical task of delivering key radar imagery of Earth’s surface for a wide range of services and scientific applications.
Balancing risk and reward in planetary exploration
NASA's Mars rovers strive for groundbreaking scientific discoveries as they traverse the Martian landscape. At the same time, the crews operating the rovers do all they can to protect them and the billions of dollars behind the mission. This balance between risk and reward drives the decisions surrounding where the rovers go, the paths they take to get there and the science they uncover.
Researchers in the School of Computer Science's Robotics Institute (RI) have developed a new approach to balancing the risks and scientific value of sending planetary rovers into dangerous situations.
NASA announces 16 people who will study UFOs to see what's natural—and what isn't
What is behind all these UFO sightings? We may find out.
NASA announced the 16 people who will spend the next nine months studying unidentified aerial phenomena, also known as UFOs.
Using unclassified data, the team will "lay the groundwork for future study" of UFOs by examining how the data is gathered by the public, local government and other sources. The goal is to have a roadmap for NASA's data analysis on the flying objects, and determine what events are natural or not.
"Exploring the unknown in space and the atmosphere is at the heart of who we are at NASA," Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, said in a statement. "Understanding the data we have surrounding unidentified aerial phenomena is critical to helping us draw scientific conclusions about what is happening in our skies. Data is the language of scientists and makes the unexplainable, explainable."
The announcement of the study participants comes amid a renewed interest in UFOs. In June 2021, the office of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence released a highly anticipated report examining unidentified aerial phenomena, but no "firm conclusions" could be drawn on more than 140 instances.
Analysis of gases recovered from asteroid Ryugu by Hayabusa2 spacecraft
Ariane 5: payload and geography open super-efficient path to GEO
Ariane 5’s 7 September 2022 launch made headlines for orbiting Europe’s tallest-ever telecommunications satellite, but the VA258 mission also stands out for its trajectory – one of the most extreme examples yet flown of a super-efficient path to geostationary (GEO) orbit.
Boosting Earth science
With science at the core of the Earth Observation FutureEO programme, ESA has opened a new scientific facility, the Science Hub, which offers new opportunities for collaborative research to further boost the Agency’s and its Member States scientific output.
