ABL Space gets $60 million for responsive launch demonstrations
Friday, 24 March 2023 17:45
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ABL Space Systems, a California-based launch startup, announced March 24 it has secured a $60 million contract from the U.S.
Cape Congestion: World’s busiest spaceport stretched to its limits
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Cape Canaveral’s infrastructure is being stretched to its limits as the world’s busiest launch site continues to get busier.
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Improving remote operation of planetary ground robots during upcoming Mars analog mission
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The Institute for Systems and Robotics and the Interactive Technologies Institute, both represented by the Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems (LARSyS), are proud to announce their participation in the upcoming AMADEE-24 mission to Mars. The mission, organized by the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF), aims to advance the development of space exploration through international collaboration and scientific research.
As one of the scientific partners of the OeWF, LARSyS has been contributing to the analog missions to Mars since 2019.
NASA prepares for historic asteroid sample delivery on Sept. 24
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Fly around Jezero Crater on Mars in this new video
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There's a reason Jezero Crater was chosen as the landing site for the Perseverance Rover: it is considered one of the likeliest places to find any evidence if Mars was ever habitable for long periods of time. In this great new flyby video from ESA, you can get a birds-eye look at Perseverance's home.
Created from data ESA's Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the video takes you on an aerial tour of the crater. From this perspective, you can see the water features in this ancient impact crater and understand why this was considered one of the best places to explore Mars.
Perseverance landed in Jezero crater in February 2021. The diverse rocks and mineralogy found in and around Jezero crater tell the story of Mars' complex geological history, which Perseverance is working to study and reveal. The roughly 45-km-wide crater is found on the border between the ancient region of Terra Sabaea—which contains rocks of up to 4.1 billion years old—and the younger Isidis Planitia basin, which formed via asteroid impact.
First ever ESA Academy Navigation Training Course!
Friday, 24 March 2023 14:13 Write a comment
For the first time ever, ESA Academy is opening a call for university students to apply for the pilot edition of the Navigation Training Course, to be held from 26 to 30 June 2023 at ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Facility in ESEC-Galaxia, Belgium. This Training Course has been developed by ESA Education and ESA’s Directorate of Navigation. Would you like to know more about the future of satellite navigation? Apply for our course today!
Week in images: 20-24 March 2023
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Week in images: 20-24 March 2023
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ESA in miniature China loses UAE as partner for Chang’e-7 lunar south pole mission
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An agreement for a United Arab Emirates’ rover to fly on China’s Chang’e-7 lunar mission has apparently been hit by U.S.
Advisory group backs European human spaceflight program using commercial approaches
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An advisory committee called on the European Space Agency to develop a comprehensive human spaceflight program using a more commercial approach.
Lockheed Martin launches commercial ground control software for satellite constellations
Friday, 24 March 2023 09:32 Write a comment
To help future developers of commercial satellite constellations plan missions and operate their systems, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is now offering commercial licenses to its proven Horizon Command and Control (C2) and Compass Mission Planning software.
Horizon and Compass leverage an integrated and scalable modular architecture designed to meet specific customer needs. They provide miss Oversight Program aims to make space domain more tactically relevant for military planners, warfighters
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DARPA aims to help military planners keep track of up to 1,000 targets of interest through management of available space domain resources. The goal of the Oversight program is to enable constant custody to maintain tracking of targets of interest for tactical missions. Apogee Research LLC, BAE Systems Information and Electronics Systems Integration Inc., and Systems and Technology Research LLC a USSF announces university opportunities Beyond GEO operations
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In partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory and Universities Space Research Association, the United States Space Force announced the establishment of a new University Consortium Research Opportunity addressing space science and technology challenges today.
The research focus areas for this UCRO will include Beyond Geostationary Earth Orbit (xGEO) Operations and Space Domain Aware Inmarsat and RBC Signals complete live testing of dynamic spectrum leasing solution
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Inmarsat, a world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, has announced that RBC Signals will be the first partner to resell its innovative IoT Connectivity Leasing solution. The agreement follows the successful testing of the solution, which enables the dynamic provision of satellite connectivity depending on changing customer needs.
The proposition will enable customers of RBC Where did Earth's water come from? Not melted meteorites, say scientists
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Water makes up 71% of Earth's surface, but no one knows how or when such massive quantities of water arrived on Earth.
A new study published in the journal Nature brings scientists one step closer to answering that question. Led by University of Maryland Assistant Professor of Geology Megan Newcombe, researchers analyzed melted meteorites that had been floating around in space since the so