New York (AFP) June 5, 2024
Humankind's role in the destructive warming of the planet is comparable to the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday, calling for rapid steps including bans on fossil fuel advertising. "Of the vast forces that have shaped life on Earth over billions of years, humanity is just one small blip on the radar," Guterres said in a speech at New Yo

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 06, 2024
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) received a one-year extension contract from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to continue its Electro-Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) subscription for high-frequency Gen-2 imagery services. "This contract represents continued confidence in BlackSky as a trusted mission partner as the NRO makes strides in leveraging commercial space technology to

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2024
Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) announced a new five-year contract awarded by the United States Space Force's Space Systems Command's Commercial Space Office (COMSO) for Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services (EMSS) capabilities and security sustainment services (ECS3). This contract supports the Iridium EMSS program, ensuring continued operations of the EMSS Service Center for critical U

Paris (AFP) June 4, 2024
By 2050, humanity must durably remove four times as much CO2 from the air as today to cap global warming below the crucial target of two degrees Celsius, researchers said Tuesday. But massively expanding CO2-absorbing forests - 99 percent of current carbon removal - could claim land needed to grow food and biofuels, while it remains highly uncertain whether new technologies for sucking CO2

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 06, 2024
SES Space and Defense, a subsidiary of SES, has announced the successful demonstration of a multi-orbit, multi-band commercial space relay service for NASA's Communications Services Project (CSP). In collaboration with Planet Labs, SES utilized its O3b mPOWER satellite constellation in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) and Planet's Low Earth Orbit (LEO) flight-representative terminal to demonstrate

Paris, France (SPX) Jun 06, 2024
Over 200 professionals from ESA, EUSPA, and European industry across four Galileo centres and seven external entities have successfully upgraded Galileo's extensive ground segment. This operation involved the deployment of 400 items and five months of rehearsals, culminating in the seamless transition to System Build 2.0. With 30 satellites in orbit, Galileo provides metre-level accuracy t

London, UK (SPX) Jun 06, 2024
Scientists have detected what they believe to be a neutron star spinning at an unprecedentedly slow rate - slower than any of the more than 3,000 radio-emitting neutron stars measured to date. Neutron stars, the dense remnants of a dead star, typically rotate at extremely high speeds, taking just seconds or even less to fully spin on their axis. However, the newly discovered neutron star,

Paris, France (SPX) Jun 06, 2024
Ever since aurora chasers discovered Steve, a mysterious ribbon of purple light in the night sky, scientists have wondered whether it might have a secret twin. Thanks to a photographer's keen eye and data from ESA's Swarm satellites, we may have found it. Steve was first identified a few years ago by the Alberta Aurora Chasers Facebook group. Its mauve hue and fleeting appearance different

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 06, 2024
Exoplanets are common in our galaxy, with some located in the habitable zone of their stars. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is currently observing several of these small, potentially habitable planets. Drs. Knicole Colon and Christopher Stark, Webb project scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, discuss the challenges in studying these worlds. "A potentially habitable planet i