OffWorld Europe makes its debut in Luxembourg developing space mining robots
Monday, 27 February 2023 05:09
Write a comment
OffWorld, a pioneer in AI-powered industrial Swarm Robotic Mining systems on Earth, has expanded to take on space with the establishment of OffWorld Europe. Kyle Acierno, former CEO of ispace U.S. and an international expert in commercial space and lunar exploration, will manage the new division.
OffWorld Europe will focus on developing and deploying modules for the extraction and storage Mitsubishi Electric and Astroscale to Develop and Produce Satellite Buses
Monday, 27 February 2023 05:09 Write a comment
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, a leading defense and space company, and Astroscale Holdings Inc., the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term sustainability across all orbits, announced today that Mitsubishi Electric has invested U.S. $25 million in Astroscale's Series G funding round.
Separate from the investment, the companies have agreed to collaborate in the joint developm Kayhan Space amps up executive team ahead of Advanced Collision Avoidance Suite rollout
Monday, 27 February 2023 05:09 Write a comment
Kayhan Space has named Matthew Shouppe as Chief Commercial Officer to lead sales, marketing and product strategy for the company. The announcement comes as Kayhan Space prepares to expand its product offerings in response to an increasingly congested space operating environment.
Shouppe brings more than 13 years of industry experience in the highly specialized area of sales and product dev Startup developing sea-based launch pads
Sunday, 26 February 2023 22:23 Write a comment
A startup is proposing one solution to the increasing congestion at major launch sites: build mobile launch pads that operate at sea.
SpaceX Dragon crew to blast off for ISS
Sunday, 26 February 2023 18:51 Write a comment
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is to blast off early Monday for the International Space Station carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and the second Emirati to voyage to space.
The SpaceX Dragon Crew-6 mission is set to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:45 am (0645 GMT). Weather conditions are expected to be near perfect.
The Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Endeavour, is scheduled to dock with the ISS at 2:38 am (0738 GMT) on Tuesday if all goes as planned.
NASA's Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Russia's Andrey Fedyaev and Sultan al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates are to spend six months on the orbiting space station.
Neyadi, 41, will be the fourth astronaut from an Arab country and the second from the oil-rich United Arab Emirates to journey to space; his countryman Hazzaa al-Mansoori flew an eight-day mission in 2019.
Replacement Soyuz arrives at space station
Sunday, 26 February 2023 12:02 Write a comment
An uncrewed Soyuz spacecraft launched to replace a damaged Soyuz arrived at the International Space Station Feb. 25.
The post Replacement Soyuz arrives at space station appeared first on SpaceNews.
Russia's uncrewed Soyuz rescue spacecraft docks with ISS
Sunday, 26 February 2023 10:58 Write a comment
A Russian spacecraft docked with the International Space Station on Saturday to replace one that leaked coolant after it was struck by a meteoroid last year, stranding two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut in space.
"Contact and capture. Docking confirmed at 6:58 p.m. CST," NASA spokesman Robert Navias said during a broadcast of the mission. "It could not have gone smoother from launch to ULA's Vulcan Centaur rocket is flying for the first time in May
Sunday, 26 February 2023 10:58 Write a comment
Vulcan Centaur was supposed to blast off in the first quarter of this year. During a press conference on February 23, United Launch Alliance (ULA) President and CEO Tory Bruno stated, "We are now targeting the fourth of May, so we plan our manifest around that and be ready to fly that payload when it comes in."
The long-awaited inaugural flight of the new Vulcan Centaur rocket is targeting New study offers insight into how Venus cools
Sunday, 26 February 2023 10:58 Write a comment
Large geological patterns on Venus, called Coronae, may provide answers to how the planet releases heat, according to a research study from scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
On Earth, the planet's core heats the surrounding mantle which then conveys heat to the outer layer or lithosphere, where it then radiates out into space, causing the Earth's mantle to cool, driving th Russian ship docks with ISS to replace damaged capsule
Sunday, 26 February 2023 10:43 Write a comment
An uncrewed Russian Soyuz capsule docked early Sunday with the International Space Station and will eventually bring home three astronauts whose initial return vehicle was damaged by a tiny meteoroid.
The MS-23 ship autonomously latched to the orbiting research lab, live video from ISS-partner NASA showed, completing the Soyuz's two-day journey after launching off from Kazakhstan.
It is expected to bring home US astronaut Frank Rubio and Russian cosmonauts Dmitry Petelin and Sergei Prokopyev in September.
The three arrived at the ISS last September aboard MS-22, and were originally only supposed to stay about six months, until the end of March.
But their capsule began leaking coolant in mid-December after being hit by what US and Russian officials believe was a tiny space rock.
Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, decided to send MS-23 to replace the damaged vessel, but without its own three planned crew members.
With no one to replace them, Rubio, Petelin and Prokopyev will now spend almost a year in space.
The damaged MS-22 is expected to depart the space station without passengers and return to Earth in late March.
Space Force looks to energize industry with next round of launch contracts
Saturday, 25 February 2023 16:45 Write a comment
U.S.
Commercial space a key topic for National Space Council advisory group
Saturday, 25 February 2023 15:19 Write a comment
Commercial space issues, including supporting emerging markets and regulating them, emerged as major priorities at a meeting of a National Space Council advisory group.
Euclid spacecraft prepares to probe universe's dark mysteries
Saturday, 25 February 2023 10:06 Write a comment
For now, Europe's Euclid spacecraft sits quietly in a sterilized room in the south of France, its golden trim gleaming under the fluorescent light.
But in a few months the space telescope will blast off on history's first mission to search for two of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark matter and dark energy.
Though together they make up 95 percent of the universe, almost nothing is known about either—a glaring hole in scientific understanding that Euclid project manager Giuseppe Racca dubbed a "cosmic embarrassment".
Aiming to shed light on these dark secrets, the European Space Agency's mission will chart a 3D map of the universe encompassing two billion galaxies across more than a third of the sky.
Bullitt unveils satellite-enabled Android smartphones
Friday, 24 February 2023 20:19 Write a comment
British ruggedized handset maker Bullitt unveiled its first satellite-enabled smartphones Feb.
MAVEN status update
Friday, 24 February 2023 16:57 Write a comment
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft entered safe mode on Feb. 16 after encountering an issue with its Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), which measures the spacecraft rate of rotation for use in determining its pointing. The IMU had been powered up in preparation for a minor maneuver targeted to reduce eclipse durations in 2027.
On Feb.17, MAVEN exited safe mode and is currently operating in all stellar mode, a mode that does not rely on IMU measurements such that the IMU can be powered off to conserve its lifetime. The maneuver will be waived as the team evaluates the path forward. Relay activities and nominal science operations are scheduled to resume on Feb. 23.
MAVEN launched in November 2013 and entered Mars' orbit in September 2014. The mission's goal is to explore the planet's upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and interactions with the Sun and solar wind to explore the loss of the Martian atmosphere to space. Understanding atmospheric loss gives scientists insight into the history of Mars' atmosphere and climate, liquid water, and planetary habitability.
Provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center