Frozen Arctic soils are set to release vast amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere as they continue to thaw in coming decades. Despite concerns that this will fuel future global warming, the scale and speed of this important climate process remain uncertain. To help address this knowledge gap, ESA-funded researchers have developed and released a new permafrost dataset – the longest, satellite-derived permafrost record currently available.

London, UK (SPX) Dec 15, 2020
Thales Alenia Space, who have three sites in the UK and employ nearly 200 highly skilled engineers and scientists, have won the contract to design the mother ship for the Comet Interceptor mission, which will see one main spacecraft and two smaller robotic probes - built by the Japanese Space Agency - travel to an as-yet unidentified comet, and map it in three dimensions. Comets are what i

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 15, 2020
Don't tell Bill Allen he can't take risks. Allen was just 17 years old when he first set foot on the grounds of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to join the mailroom in the summer of 1981. Voyager had recently encountered Saturn, and the Lab was crawling with members of the media. "It was like walking into a football stadium in the middle of the touchdown. It was electric," he says.

Princeton NJ (SPX) Dec 15, 2020
A hyper-sensitive instrument, deep underground in Italy, has finally succeeded at the nearly impossible task of detecting CNO neutrinos (tiny particles pointing to the presence of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen) from our sun's core. These little-known particles reveal the last missing detail of the fusion cycle powering our sun and other stars. In results published Nov. 26 in the journal Natu

Denver CO (SPX) Dec 15, 2020
Kleos Space S.A. will establish its principal US engineering presence in Denver, Colorado. Kleos has engaged with Denver Economic Development and Opportunity and selected Denver, Colorado as an ideal location to grow its U.S. engineering presence and to further draw on the region's engineering and aerospace support services. Colorado is creating the foundation to become "Aerospace Alley" and bui

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 14, 2020
Aerojet Rocketdyne powered the recent successful launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket yesterday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rocket launched a classified national security payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Aerojet Rocketdyne supplies the boost engines, upper-stage engines and the composite overwrapped pressure vess

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 15, 2020
Logistics provider DHL and New Space Company D-Orbit jointly tackle terrestrial challenges and leverage galactic opportunities Bonn, December 15, 2020: DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist of Deutsche Post DHL Group, normally moves goods that stay in the Earth's atmosphere. Now they have partnered with D-Orbit, a specialized company covering the entire lifecycle of a space

Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2020
The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School Convenes The First-Ever Space Test Fundamentals Course Jan. 4, 2021. The Selection Board Results Were Announced Dec. 10. "This Important Milestone Would Not Have Been Possible Without The Vision Of U.S. Space Force Leaders. The Value Of Agile, Disciplined Test And Evaluation Spans All Domains, Which Is Why The Air Force Test Pilot School Has Developed T

Vostochny, Russia (SPX) Dec 15, 2020
Flight ST29, the first commercial mission from Vostochny Cosmodrome performed by Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate, will put 36 of OneWeb's satellites into a near-polar orbit at an altitude of 450 kilometers. After separation, the satellites will raise themselves to their operational orbit. The first six OneWeb satellites were successfully orbited by Arianespace on Soyuz Flight VS21 fr

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 09, 2020
NASA's Science Mission Directorate has awarded prize funding of $100,000 each to six entrepreneurial startup companies under its pilot Entrepreneur's Challenge program for concepts ranging from machine learning to enable exploration and other technologies to new ways to build instruments to study the universe. NASA partnered with Starburst, the global aero