Las Cruces NM (SPX) Nov 10, 2021
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. has announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2021. "We are entering our fleet enhancement period with a clear roadmap for increasing the durability, reliability and predictability of our vehicles in preparation for commercial service next year," said Michael Colglazier, Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Galactic. "Demand

Beijing (XNA) Nov 10, 2021
China's Mars orbiter entered its remote-sensing orbit around Mars on Monday, starting the global remote-sensing exploration of the planet, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said. The CNSA said the orbit was set according to the needs of the orbiter in conducting global detection and relaying communications between the Mars rover and Earth. The seven scientific payloads a

Baltimore MD (SPX) Nov 09, 2021
The Hubble team successfully recovered the Advanced Camera for Surveys instrument Nov. 7. The instrument has started taking science observations once again. Hubble's other instruments remain in safe mode while NASA continues investigating the lost synchronization messages first detected Oct. 23. The camera was selected as the first instrument to recover as it faces the fewest complications shoul

Beijing (XNA) Nov 08, 2021
The extravehicular activities (EVAs) carried out by two Chinese astronauts from Sunday evening till early Monday morning will help expand the capabilities of the mechanical arm on the country's space station, said the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST). Astronauts Zhai Zhigang and Wang Yaping were out of China's space station core module Tianhe by 8:28 p.m. (Beijing Time) Sunday, and

Reading UK (SPX) Nov 09, 2021
Isotropic Systems, the leading developer of transformational multi-link satellite technology, and SES have announced the successful completion of the first-ever simultaneous multi-orbit antenna field tests, a game-changing development empowering a new age of connectivity on land, in the air and at sea for both civil and defense communications. Isotropic Systems' UK-built multi-link antenna

Washington DC (SPX) Nov 10, 2021
In the first major Artemis update provided under the Biden-Harris Administration, NASA leadership discussed Tuesday the challenges and progress of America's lunar exploration plans and reiterated a long-term commitment to exploring the Moon and sending astronauts to Mars. The update follows a judge's recent decision to uphold NASA's selection of SpaceX to develop and demonstrate a modern h

San Antonio TX (SPX) Nov 09, 2021
Southwest Research Institute will advance hypersonics research in collaboration with The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) under a three-year, $1.5 million grant through the University Consortium of Applied Hypersonics. As a subcontractor to UTSA, SwRI will design experiments to push the envelope on what is capable with hypersonic system designs and provide methods to better model comple

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 8, 2021
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has flown for the 15th time on Mars, starting a journey back to its starting point for future missions in a new direction. The latest flight, over the weekend, was relatively short - at just 128 seconds - and was designed in part to further test flight conditions at Jezero Crater now that summer has arrived. "Ingenuity opportunistically took ima

High-resolution satellites have detected substantial quantities of methane leaking from adjacent landfill sites close to the centre of Madrid, Spain. Using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission combined with GHGSat’s high-resolution commercial imagery, scientists from the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and GHGSat discovered both landfill sites combined emitted 8800 kg of methane per hour in August 2021 – the highest observed in Europe by GHGSat.

Washington (AFP) Nov 9, 2021
The United States will send a crewed mission to the Moon "no earlier than 2025," NASA chief Bill Nelson told reporters on Tuesday, officially pushing back the launch by at least a year. A target of 2024 was set by the administration of former president Donald Trump when it launched the Artemis program. But the program has since faced numerous development delays ranging from its vehicles