Aurora CO (SPX) Mar 09, 2023
Reporting progress but conceding that "hard choices" remain, Department of the Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall offered a report card March 7 during a major address at the 2023 Air and Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium, emphasizing the need to modernize and reshape the Air Force and Space Force to confront China and other emerging powers. While important to maintain - and sustain

Washington (AFP) March 12, 2023
NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 returned to Earth on Saturday after a five-month stay aboard the International Space Station, livestreamed video broadcast by the US space agency showed. The SpaceX "Endurance" capsule carried Koichi Wakata of Japan, Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada. It splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico shortly after 9:00 PM (0200 GMT

“You can read everything there is to know about driving a car, but you won’t really understand what it’s like to drive one until you get behind the wheel. That’s what it’s like to fly your software in orbit,” says David Evans, ESA’s OPS-SAT Space Lab manager.

Over the last year, 12 project teams have had the chance to experience this first hand thanks to a combination of seed funding from the Discovery element of ESA's Basic Activities and access to ESA’s experimental OPS-SAT CubeSat.

Image: Galileo on the ground – infographic

Image: YPSat’s trial by vacuum

Maxwell AFB AK (SPX) Mar 09, 2023
The Department of the Air Force launched a toolkit March 8, 2023, providing a supplemental resource for commanders to tailor training specifically oriented to the United States' pacing challenge. Developed by Air University's China Aerospace Studies Institute, or CASI, the China Toolkit contains a repository of Department of Defense and external videos, presentations, articles and studies

Space Coast FL (SPX) Mar 10, 2023
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 40 broadband satellites into a polar orbit for the London-based company OneWeb on Thursday, March 9, and eight minutes later the rocket's first stage booster landed back at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS). The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket using Booster B0173 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at CCSFS, Florida, at 2

Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 06, 2023
"We are living in an extraordinary moment in history," says Didier Queloz, who directs ETH Zurich's Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life and the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe at Cambridge. While still a doctoral student Queloz was the first to discover an exoplanet - a planet orbiting a solar-type star outside of Earth's solar system. A discovery for which he would later receive

Beijing (XNA) Mar 13, 2023
The China Academy of Space Technology has developed and successfully launched a total of 400 spacecraft with its Tianhui 6 twin satellites sent into space on Friday morning. The two satellites were launched onboard a Long March 4C carrier rocket and will be used for geographic mapping, land resource survey, and scientific experiments, among others. The CAST, affiliated with the China

Hatfield UK (SPX) Mar 13, 2023
Antenova Ltd, the UK-based manufacturer of antennas and RF antenna modules for M2M and the IoT, is to reveal its latest compact high precision GNSS module at Embedded World. The new product, GNSSNova M20072, is a GNSS receiver with integrated GNSS antenna and greatly reduced power consumption. M20072 uses a MediaTek 12nm low energy chip with 1.8V power supply which uses 70% less power than