Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 19, 2024
China's Tianzhou 7 cargo spacecraft concluded its mission as it burned up upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere on Sunday night, the China Manned Space Agency reported. According to the agency, ground control guided the robotic craft, which reentered at 9:25 pm, leading to most of the vehicle disintegrating, with only minor debris landing in designated sea zones. Tianzhou 7 had separa

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 19, 2024
Beyond Gravity, a prominent space industry supplier based in Switzerland, has launched a modular electronics platform called FoX, designed for satellites and featuring off-the-shelf components. This new platform includes single-board computers, navigation receivers, mass memory units, and time-sensitive networking (TSN) Ethernet switches, among other components. Tom Seeman, Director of Marketing

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 20, 2024
Impulso.Space USA Corp. has signed a new multi-mission contract with D-Orbit, reinforcing their ongoing collaboration and expanding the scope of comprehensive space launch services. The agreement encompasses multiple satellite launches scheduled as part of future SpaceX Transporter Rideshare missions. Impulso.Space will oversee complete mission management, providing all technical and logistical

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 19, 2024
As the space sector experiences rapid growth in satellite operations and diversified space missions, the demand for in-orbit servicing has risen. PIAP Space has met this need with its innovative Docking System, aimed at boosting satellite longevity, serviceability, and sustainability. This system facilitates satellite operators in extending missions, performing essential repairs, refuelling, and

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 20, 2024
Quadsat has partnered with mmt to expand the reach of its electromagnetic emulation services as part of the newly launched Quadsat Service Partner Network. This network is designed to provide global customers with fast and cost-efficient access to Quadsat's specialized services. These services include comprehensive characterization of teleport and user terminal antennas, full satellite net

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 19, 2024
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is transforming software traditionally used for electrolyte modeling and corrosion prediction into an advanced tool for assessing whether ice-covered worlds could support microbial life. This effort is part of NASA's Habitable Worlds program, which leverages Earth's history to better understand the processes and conditions that foster habitability. Typic

University Park PA (SPX) Nov 20, 2024
As energy from the sun reaches Earth, some solar radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, leading to chemical reactions like the formation of ozone and the breakup of gas molecules. A new approach for modeling these reactions, developed by a team led by scientists at Penn State, may improve our understanding of the atmosphere on early Earth and help in the search for habitable conditions on plan

Boston MA (SPX) Nov 20, 2024
In April 2019, a group of astronomers from around the globe stunned the world when they revealed the first image of a black hole - the monstrous accumulation of collapsed stars and gas that lets nothing escape, not even light. The image, which was of the black hole that sits at the core of a galaxy called Messier 87 (M87), revealed glowing gas around the center of the black hole. In March 2021,

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 19, 2024
Billions of years in the past, an asteroid of immense size collided with the Moon, generating such intense heat that the lunar rock melted and glowed white-hot before eventually solidifying. This formed the multi-ringed Orientale basin, a major impact feature on the Moon's surface. Acquiring samples of such impact melt is of great value to scientists, who can analyze them in laboratories t

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 19, 2024
An international research team, led by Bogdan P. Onac from the USF School of Geosciences, has conducted an in-depth study of volcanic caves called lava tubes. This investigation sheds light on how such structures may offer valuable insights for detecting life on Mars. The team, including experts from Portugal, Spain, and Italy, focused on six lava tubes on Lanzarote, a Spanish island near