Paris (ESA) Feb 22, 2023
This year started with a nice imaging opportunity for Solar Orbiter, and a chance to further improve the quality of its data. On 3 January 2023, inner planet Mercury crossed the spacecraft's field of view, resulting in a transit where Mercury appeared as a perfectly black circle moving across the face of the Sun. A number of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter's instruments captured the transit. In

Space Coast FL (SPX) Feb 22, 2023
Roscosmos on Tuesday blamed an "external impact," not a manufacturing defect, for a coolant leak from an unmanned Russian supply ship docked at the International Space Station on February 11. High-resolution pictures of the Progress MS-21 spacecraft were taken by cosmonauts using the ISS' 17-meter-long Canadarm2 robotic arm, which revealed a 12-millimeter hole where the coolant fluid pour

Image: Farming on the Moon

Copernicus Sentinel-2 helps explorers unearth rare meteorite

Beijing (XNA) Feb 20, 2023
China has released a new batch of datasets from the payloads installed on the Chang'e-4 probe on the official website of the Lunar and Planetary Data Release System. The datasets include 3,991.1 MB of 803 data files obtained by the four scientific payloads on the Chang'e-4 lander and rover between December 26, 2021 and January 10, 2022. The Chang'e-4 probe, launched on Dec 8, 2018, m

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2023
The team was eagerly awaiting our downlink this morning to hear how the drill attempt from Sol 3742 went. The images came down and indeed there was a drill hole... a mini drill hole... and sadly not deep enough to get to a sufficient depth for the drill assembly to start collecting sample. This was our fourth attempt to drill this marker band, and we gave it our best shot from both a geology and

Miami FL (SPX) Feb 20, 2023
Fortuna Investments ("Fortuna"), a venture capital and advisory firm founded by Justus Parmar, is pleased to announce its expansion to the U.S. market with the opening of an office in Miami Beach, Florida. From this strategic vantage point, the firm plans to invest in companies and entrepreneurs in both the burgeoning space industry as well as clean-tech and other emerging industries. In c

Aalborg, Denmark (SPX) Feb 20, 2023
GomSpace, a satellite company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NuSpace Pte. Ltd, a Singapore-based company providing space-based infrastructure services. The partnership will allow the parties to develop space projects in Singapore, leveraging NuSpace's expertise in satellite as a service and GomSpace's experience in delivering space missions and equipment. The combinat