Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 09, 2023
Curiosity is continuing to make the most of the new year - both on Earth and on Mars which recently entered Mars Year 37, only a few days before the new year on Earth. After a successful drive along the slope below the Marker Band, we're ready for a full weekend. On our first sol, ChemCam has a LIBS observation on the target 'Waimiri' followed by two mosaics on the Marker Band and the dist

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 09, 2023
Inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, engineers and technicians conduct inspections of the heat shield on the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission. Orion returned to Kennedy on Dec. 30, 2022, after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 11, following a 1.4-million-mile mission beyond the Moon and back. In this photo, technicians

Houston TX (SPX) Jan 09, 2023
A radiation protection vest, olive oil, and sutured tissues are among the scientific samples returning from the International Space Station on the 26th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission for NASA. The Dragon spacecraft, which arrived at the station Nov. 27, is scheduled to undock on January 9, with splashdown several hours later off the coast of Florida. The cargo returns to NASA'

Newquay UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2023
virginorbit.com Partners for the United Kingdom's first orbital launch announced that the initial window for the historic Start Me Up mission will officially open on Monday, 9 January at 22:16 UTC with additional back-up dates continuing into mid and late January. Start Me Up is a collaborative effort between the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA), Cornwall Council, the Royal Air Force, and Vir

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 09, 2023
At ITER - the world's largest experimental fusion reactor, currently under construction in France through international cooperation - the abrupt termination of magnetic confinement of a high temperature plasma through a so-called "disruption" poses a major open issue. As a countermeasure, disruption mitigation techniques, which allow to forcibly cool the plasma when signs of plasma instabilities

Vilnius, Lithuania (SPX) Jan 09, 2023
Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) has announced the successful launch of Europe's first solar sail mission aboard SpaceX Transporter-6. The 6U nanosatellite nicknamed 'Alpha' was manufactured for France's Gama. It is one of four satellites, built by the Lithuanian smallsat mission integrator for multiple customers, that got sent into low Earth Orbit. It is the first time for NanoAvioni

Las Vegas MV (SPX) Jan 09, 2023
Skylo, a Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) operator, focused on connecting anything, anywhere, announced that it is partnering with Bullitt Group, the innovative British smartphone manufacturer, as Bullitt's satellite connectivity partner for its two-way satellite messaging smartphone. Available in Q1 2023, and on show for the first time at CES 2023, the smartphone will feature Bullitt's new m

Las Vegas NV (SPX) Jan 09, 2023
ROCK Robotic announced the availability of ROCK Base, a state-of-the-art, triple-band multi-constellation RTK/GNSS base station. ROCK has also joined the Web3 GEODNET initiative, the world's largest decentralized GNSS reference network. The combined solution will support critical applications in civil surveying, high-definition mapping and digital twin creation, as well as many next-genera

Washington DC (UPI) Jan 6, 2023
A retired NASA satellite is expected to fall to Earth on Sunday after spending nearly 40 years in space, space officials said Friday. The U.S. Defense Department has predicted that the 5,400-pound Earth Radiation Budget Satellite will reenter the atmosphere sometime within a 17-hour window of 6:40 p.m. EST on Sunday, NASA said in a statement. The satellite is expected to mostly b

Washington DC (UPI) Jan 6, 2023
NASA is preparing for the return of multiple science experiments from the International Space Station in the hopes they might further aid mankind's future exploration of space. A Dragon spacecraft that docked with the station on Nov. 27 is scheduled to return to Earth and splash down off the eastern coast of Florida on Jan. 9, NASA said in a press release. The items being ferried