Houston TX (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
Life on the International Space Station is quite different from life on the ground. Crew members experience multiple sunrises and sunsets each day, spend their time in a confined space, have packed schedules, and deal with microgravity. These and other conditions during spaceflight can negatively affect the performance and well-being of crew members. Many studies on the space station work

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
Apex Space, a spacecraft bus platform manufacturer based in Los Angeles, has introduced its latest product, the GEO Aries satellite bus, designed for geostationary orbit (GEO) missions. The company plans to begin delivering the GEO Aries buses to customers starting in 2026. GEO Aries is an enhanced version of Apex's existing Aries bus platform, engineered to meet the specific needs of GEO

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL), a leading provider of Earth data and insights, announced the upcoming launch of its first hyperspectral satellite, Tanager-1, alongside 36 SuperDoves (Flock 4BE). These satellites are set to launch on the Transporter-11 Rideshare mission with SpaceX on Friday, August 16, 2024, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The SpaceX launch window is scheduled to open

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
USPACE Technology Group Limited ("USPACE," Stock Code: 1725.HK) is pleased to announce that the Group has signed the strategic partnership agreement with the Egyptian Space Agency ("EgSA"), in relation to satellite manufacturing and testing, satellite launch, education and training, greatly expanding its business presence in the fast-growing African space market. The collaboration between

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
Though the Sun orbits the Milky Way at a staggering speed of 220 kilometers per second, a newly discovered faint red star is racing across the sky at an even more astonishing pace - approximately 1.3 million miles per hour (600 kilometers per second). This makes it the first known "hypervelocity" very low-mass star, identified by a collaboration between citizen scientists and astronomers utilizi

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
Scientists have determined that the asteroid responsible for the mass extinction event 66 million years ago was a rare carbonaceous asteroid originating from beyond Jupiter. This discovery clarifies long-standing debates regarding the Chicxulub impactor and offers new insights into Earth's geological history and the extraterrestrial objects that have impacted it. The Earth has experienced

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
A new high-resolution global color image dataset of Mars has been released, thanks to data gathered by China's Tianwen-1 mission. This dataset is a significant advancement for Mars exploration, offering unprecedented detail and accuracy for global color images of the Martian surface. Mars' surface morphology, topography, and geological structure have long been studied through remote-sensin

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
Lunar Outpost has announced that Castrol will be the lead collaborator for its Mission Control Center during the upcoming Lunar Voyage 1 mission, set to launch later this year. This Mission Control Center will serve as the operational hub for Lunar Voyage 1 (LV1), providing crucial oversight and decision-making capabilities. The LV1 mission will target Shackleton Connecting Ridge near the

Madrid, Spain (SPX) Aug 16, 2024
Neuraspace has expanded its network of partners by joining the EISCAT Scientific Association as an affiliate institution. EISCAT Scientific Association, known for providing high-latitude incoherent radar scattering facilities for scientific research since the 1980s, will now collaborate with Neuraspace, a leading European company in space traffic management (STM). This collaboration grants

Washington DC (UPI) Aug 15, 2024
SpaceX on Thursday successfully launched into orbit two Earth-imaging satellites in its second round to build on its WorldView Legion constellation of satellites for Maxar. The launch took place at 9 a.m. EDT at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. WorldView's Legion 3 and 4 satellites were carried into space on top of a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 in what was