Beijing (XNA) Aug 30, 2022
Over the past decade, Chen Maosheng and his team have manufactured satellites - a lot of them. They've built 53 Jilin-1 Gaofen-03 satellites, 43 of which have been launched and operated in orbit. Chen, 37, chief Jilin-1 Gaofen-03 designer, began leading the team to scientific and technological breakthroughs in 2012, when he entered Changguang Satellite Technology, a State-owned enterprise

Hong Kong (SPX) Aug 30, 2022
An international team of astronomers led by members of the Laboratory for Space Research (LSR) and Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), have discovered a rare celestial jewel-a so-called Planetary Nebula (PN) inside a 500 million-year-old Galactic Open Cluster (OC) called M37 (also known as NGC2099). This is a very rare finding of high astrophysical value. Their findings h

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 24, 2022
It was a busy day for the Curiosity uplink team! After our arm activity and data volume restrictions described by Lucy Thompson from last plan, we came in today with ~120% downlinked data performance and full permission to use MAHLI and APXS for contact science. Our small, ~11 m drive from Sol 3572 was successful and we arrived in front of some dark-toned, nodular rocks; our last chance at study

Panama City, Panama (SPX) Aug 30, 2022
Globalstar (NYSE American: GSAT), has partnered with Globalsat Group to deploy a jointly developed IoT solution powered by Globalstar's satellite network designed to monitor renewable energy stations located in remote areas of Latin America. The initial deployment will include 23,000 devices throughout the region with an expectation of additional opportunities in the short term. The energy

London, UK (SPX) Aug 29, 2022
Solar cells are vital for the green energy transition. They can be used not only on rooftops and solar farms but also for powering autonomous vehicles, such as planes and satellites. However, photovoltaic solar cells are currently heavy and bulky, making them difficult to transport to remote locations off-grid, where they are much needed. In a collaboration led by Imperial College London,

Beijing (XNA) Aug 30, 2022
Regarding space exploration as an integral part of the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, China has always kept an open attitude to international cooperation and it is committed to using its aerospace technology and space research findings to serve the common good. In contrast, the United States has never changed its zero-sum approach to space, and has never stopped

Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Aug 28, 2022
The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate in collaboration with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, or GTRI, NASA and DuPont de Nemours, Inc., has a brand-new spacecraft materials experiment flying on the International Space Station. A SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft delivered the experiment named 16 Materials International Space Station Experiment, or MISSE-16, to the I

Ithaca NY (SPX) Aug 30, 2022
A group of international scientists led by Cornell is - more rigorously and systematically than ever before - evaluating if and how the stratosphere could be made just a little bit "brighter," reflecting more incoming sunlight so that an ever-warming Earth maintains its cool. Their work was published Aug. 12 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Solar radiation modi

Herndon VA (SPX) Aug 30, 2022
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) received its first call order, worth $1.7 million, from NASA to evaluate accessibility, accuracy, quality and utility of the Company's imaging data services for the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program. "New discoveries in Earth science can be accelerated with innovative research methods and real-time dynamic data sets that keep up with

Perth, Australia (SPX) Aug 30, 2022
New Curtin research has found evidence that Earth's early continents resulted from being hit by comets as our Solar System passed into and out of the spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy, turning traditional thinking about our planet's formation on its head. The new research, published in Geology, challenges the existing theory that Earth's crust was solely formed by processes inside our pl