Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2024
Capella Space Corp., a U.S.-based space technology company specializing in data and satellite solutions, announced it has secured a $15 million award from the U.S. Air Force through the AFWERX Ventures Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) program. This initiative is designed to drive private sector innovation and support U.S. Air Force mission objectives. The funding will be used to furthe

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 15, 2024
Boeing [NYSE: BA] has revealed plans for the 2026 launch of a satellite, Q4S, designed to demonstrate quantum entanglement swapping capabilities in orbit. This pioneering, Boeing-funded mission is a key step toward the creation of a global quantum internet, linking quantum sensors and computers with secure, advanced communication systems. Quantum sensors, far more precise than current tech

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 17, 2024
A previously unpublished manuscript by Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, stored in a bank vault for nearly four decades, has now been made available by Pen-L Publishing. This manuscript draws critical comparisons between the growing militarization of space and present-day realities, raising concerns over the increasing potential for nuclear conflict in space. Mitchell's work explores the

Lemont, IL (SPX) Sep 16, 2024
How are stars born, and how do they die? How do they produce the energy that keeps them burning for billions of years? How do they create the elements we observe today? Definitive answers to these questions continue to elude scientists in their quest to understand the processes that shape the chemical makeup of the universe. Although the exact details of the reaction processes are unclear,

Paris, France (SPX) Sep 16, 2024
On 4 September 2024 at 16:39 UTC (18:39 CEST), the small asteroid 2024 RW1 entered Earth's atmosphere near the Philippines, creating a bright fireball witnessed by people across the region. The event, though spectacular, was not unexpected, thanks to the swift and coordinated efforts of global astronomers, including teams from ESA's Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEOCC), who tracked the

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 16, 2024
Some vegetable seeds that were sent into space have now been successfully cultivated in Yanggao county, Shanxi province, a key region for vegetable production in China. The seeds, which included tomatoes, okra, eggplant, giant pumpkins, and red peppers, were grown in the greenhouses at the Hualian Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center. According to Wang Shouming, a technician at the

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 16, 2024
Trinity Capital Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIN), a leader in providing financial solutions to companies focused on growth, has committed $30 million in growth capital to Slingshot Aerospace. Slingshot Aerospace is a key player in AI-driven satellite tracking, space traffic management, and space simulation technologies. Slingshot, headquartered in El Segundo, CA, specializes in building mission-critica

Washington DC (UPI) Sep 17, 2024
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the European Commission's Galileo L13 mission Tuesday, successfully delivering its navigation satellite constellation to a medium Earth orbit, despite questionable weather earlier in the day. The mission to deliver two Galileo satellites launched on time at 6:50 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Flori

Princeton NJ (SPX) Sep 16, 2024
Low-orbit satellites could soon offer millions of people worldwide access to high-speed communications, but the satellites' potential has been stymied by a technological limitation - their antenna arrays can only manage one user at a time. The one-to-one ratio means that companies must launch either constellations of many satellites, or large individual satellites with many arrays, to prov

The European Galileo satellite navigation system keeps growing: a new pair of satellites has joined the constellation after a journey on a Falcon 9 rocket, launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 18 September at 00:50 CEST (17 September 18:50 local time).