Paris (AFP) Oct 11, 2023
Russian mercenary group Wagner in 2022 signed a contract with a Chinese firm to acquire two satellites and use their images, aiding its intelligence work as the organisation sought to push Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to a document seen by AFP. The contract was signed in November 2022, over half a year into Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in which the Wagner group under its founder Y

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 13, 2023
As space travel extends to greater duration and distance, missions may require a propellant refill in space. To achieve this, spacecraft may require larger tanks and efficient refueling along with tanks that have the capability of isolating propellant from ullage fluid (a gas and vapor mixture) during a vent. The goal of this Challenge is to develop a novel solution for the venting of ulla

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 13, 2023
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU)has entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain institutional investors for the purchase and sale of 2,000 shares of its Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, stated value $1,000 per share in a registered direct offering. The shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock are initially convertible into an aggregate of 19,700,552 shares of common stock

San Jose CA (SPX) Oct 13, 2023
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses, transportation, and other in-space infrastructure services, has signed a contract with RIDE! Space for transportation and orbital delivery services in the first quarter of 2024. RIDE! Space will be flying its Gaindesat and Djibouti payloads on a single mission. "We are thrilled to mark this his

New York NY (SPX) Oct 13, 2023
A group of concerned investors (the "Concerned Investor Group") in Terran Orbital Corp. (NYSE: LLAP) ("Terran" or the "Company") comprised of Sophis Investments LLC, Roark's Drift LLC, and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems' Co-Founders, Jordi Puig-Suari, Roland Coelho and Austin Williams, sent a letter to Terran's Board of Directors (the "Board") detailing the path required for Terran to regain marke

Padua, Italy (SPX) Oct 13, 2023
Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers led by Tuila Ziliotto, a PhD student at the University of Padova, analyzed the smallest stars of the ancient star cluster M92. As building blocks of galaxies, star clusters play a pivotal role in their formation and evolution, yet much about their origin remains shrouded in mystery. One intriguing

Osaka, Japan (SPX) Oct 13, 2023
Showers in bathrooms bring us comfort; showers from space bring astrophysicists joy. Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have observed, with their novel method, cosmic-ray extensive air showers with unprecedented precision, opening the door to new insights into the Universe's most energetic particles. When a high energy cosmic ray collides with the Earth's atmosphere, it generates an

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 13, 2023
Earth planning date: Wednesday, October 11, 2023: Planning today started 90 minutes later than usual thanks to the data downlink containing the information we needed to assemble the plan not arriving on Earth until just before 9:30 PDT. The late start meant that I was able to watch the reveal of the initial results from the OSIRIS-REx mission, which delivered a sample of the asteroid Bennu to Ea

Changchun, China (XNA) Oct 13, 2023
China on Wednesday started the construction of a 40-meter-aperture radio telescope in the Changbai Mountain area in the northeastern province of Jilin, to support future lunar and deep-space probe missions. Developed by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the optical instrument is designed to be a large, fully movable, high-precision multipurpose radio

Washington (AFP) Oct 12, 2023
For the first time ever, a NASA probe is set to journey to an object composed not of rock, ice, or gas, but metal: the asteroid Psyche. By studying this space oddity, scientists hope to learn more about the inner cores of rocky planets such as our own - or, potentially catalog a previously unknown class of cosmic body. Here are some big numbers and fun facts to dazzle your friends with